[kAcknor]

Our hometown newspaper has gone through all sorts of changes

We still get the local on weekends for the adds and comics. Tradition I guess. Lately I've been thinking we don't even need that.

On the rare occasions I do open the news section, I find two to three day old stories and an editorial page that might as well be direct from SeeBS or a parrot of the NYT.

Not worth the frustration or blood pressure meds to read.

[50sDad]

I still WRITE Letters to the Editor because I have the finely hone knack of doing a pithy conservative irony in under 200 words, but you know what? I hardly ever READ them in the paper. Usually, old folks at church read them and tell me they got in, because I never buy a paper. And the paper has finally started publishing the Letters online if I did have the time or the interest to read it.

We get a community paper from the little girl down the street because she is a friend of my youngest daughter. And I throw them out after we pay her. The Dodo's just don't understand that in our Modern Age, news is like a box of tomatoes. I can get the stuff a dozen places, so why should I buy rotten ones? When I can see the News of the World here, with commentary that would NEVER be printed in the dead tree edition, why would I want the rotten tomatoes they provide?