Posted on 09/05/2010 8:07:09 AM PDT by abb
Same here but I do recall tripping/slipping on the darned things in the hallways of hotels.
Whether these charlatans spread their poison through via dead trees or electronically is not the issue. Sure, I’m glad to see that the lefty newspapers are croaking. But like any other parasite, they’ll simply jump to a new host — in this case, the internet. The object should not be to chase them away, but to eradicate them and their contagion.
I always asked that the cost of the USA Today be deducted from my bill. 9 times out of ten, they’d do it.
I would be content to debate their ideas on an equal footing. In my considered opinion, the reason conservative political theory has not transcended is that the means of communication has been corrupted and owned by the other side for many decades.
“I used to subscribe to several newspapers and magazines. Now, none. There’s just no point to it. I can find all the same info online - for free!”
I hear ya, but I tell you what could happen. In ten years say, when everything is electronic, and America (and the world) doesn’t improve, karma could descend in one or more ways, (major cataclysm wiping out much infrastructure) elctronics wiped out, and presto, no media. Kind of a trick God would pull on humanity, we have to start over.
The employment fear is the way it works of course in many, probably most, organizations, including our political parties, but it is the psychologically control-obsessed, ala Nancy Pelosi, leftist judges, and now our Congress, the Nanny Factor, who perpetrate the ugliest imposition on individual spirit.
It is amazing, absolutely graphic, how this psychology has changed from decades ago in the US where the MO was generally to encourage others in individual initiative and dignity. The current generation has no idea.
Lawyers, citizen demoralization, and possibly overpopulation methinks.
Johnny Suntrade
This is all baloney - marketing a lefty newspaper to businesspeople is like trying to sell cat food to parakeets.
Nowadays all the hotels brag about how they are “green” by not washing towels and bedding every day (unless you specifically ask them to).
Meanwhile they are putting a newspaper most people don’t read in front of every room and charging you for it.
Slimebags!
I always saw USA Today as the most “unworthy” of national newspapers. When traveling, if it is in front of my hotel-room door in the morning, I always deliver it to the front desk with a request that it not be there the next morning.
Even more fun, check out their classified ads.
Last time I looked, about a year ago in San Antonio, there were only six. Three were placed by escort services and three by "alternative investment" companies. There were absolutely no substantive ads.
And, IIRC, the print ads were just about as dismal. A couple of local restaurants and that was about it.
In fact, except for their usual Marxist claptrap, the newspaper was so beautifully enjoyable that I hated to toss it into the garbage.
Newspaper Rack Graveyard
I don’t often stay in hotels or motels these days. But I can remember when USA Today first started appearing outside my motel room door.
“People will pick it up from in front of their door only because it’s kind of strange just to step over it,”
Au contraire. Even in the early days, after having looked at it once or twice, I didn’t just step over it, I stepped ON it. And left it to the motel folks to clean it up, since they were the ones who dropped it there.
I agaree with you 100% — USA Today was an insult, and aside from that, when I’m on business in another city, I want the LOCAL paper to see what is going on there.
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USA Today is written like a Communist propaganda cartoon. It contains little information and what it does have only the sports section is even remotely accurate or timely.
Because of CONTEXT — there’s a lot of incidental detail in a newspaper that isn’t online.
I wish that were true, but I know many business people who ote Dem.
It’s a beautiful thing...
I see I’m not the only who stoops to pick up the paper only to deposit in the trash can unread just inside the door of my hotel room.
pathetic lefty, progressively communist, short sited slime.
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