September 23, 2005
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Do you take a local daily newspaper? Don and I have taken the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram for years, though of late only Don reads it,
and sometimes even he skips it. This morning I was at Elaine’s house
and there on a table in the entry hall were four or five unopened
newspapers, still in their plastic sleeves. Turns out neither
Elaine nor her husband read it regularly.But for all that, I don’t intend to stop subscribing to it, because I
don’t want it to disappear. I recall years ago when the Metroplex
had four dailies: the aforementioned Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
the Fort Worth Press, the Dallas Morning News, and the Dallas Times
Herald.Now the Press and the Times Herald are defunct.
Unless I want to feel responsible for the S-T to go the way of the
dodo, the mammoth, and the Press, I figure it’s best to keep it coming.Xanga has apparently made some changes so I can no longer have a poll
right on the page, doggone it. Now there’s a link: Do you subscribe?
Comments (15)
We don’t subscribe, we read it at my inlaws sometimes though. Sundays.
Thanks for the note
we have choosen a name, Aaralyn Elizabeth. We do homebirths so no hospital personnel to push me into decisions. I like it that way 
The midwife wouldn’t pressure us, although i’ve never been unknown on birth – day.
I so can not wait. i’m hoping for next week (had them all 3 weeks early)
What a cool name! What will she be called?
And I did remember y’all employ midwives, but not the location (a Very Spotty Memory, mine) ; so did Alex and Beth but they were still in a hospital’s birthing room.
Homebirth! That’s neat. Take lots of photos!
We stopped subscribing to the local rag (and I use that term with full intent!) several years ago when we had a pile of more than a week’s worth of newspapers unopened. We figured that was just dumb. And then we had to get rid of them on top of that.
The local paper doesn’t have department editors – just one editor-in-chief. Each reporter is expected to edit his/her own articles. It’s full of inaccuracies to put it kindly and out and out bias – even lies – to be more blunt. No one really believes what’s printed there, so why bother? If the paper died, it’d be no great loss, sad to say.
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That’s a pity, Cindy.
No, you’re right….if it’s that bad, a deep grave is likely the most suitable place for it.
Haven’t subscribed to the paper in over a decade. Don’t own a television. Have seriously curtailed my online time, and therefore my last source of general news info. I’m purty ignernt now!
If ignorance is indeed bliss, Valerie, you must be the happiest camper on the block.
You’re not missing anything, BTW. Hurricanes to the south, and earthquakes to the west, but nothing much in your neck of the woods.
We used to subscribe to the Morning Snooze. Two things made me ditch it.
1. They began an editorial policy of actively promoting gay stuff. It was not just my imagination. Last year, at a Touchstone Conference, Rod Dreher (recently added to the DMN staff) spoke on how media corrupts (he’s an insider, dontcha know). He confirmed that the Morning Snooze’s editorial board planned incremental increases of coverage of gay things (all from a favorable light), ending with gay wedding and engagement announcements in the same pages with all those hetero folks.
Here’s the kicker — Dreher also reports about a five percent drop in subscriptions, and about half of them made a point to say it was the pro-gay slant that moved them to drop it.
But, that wasn’t what made me drop it (though I wanted to). I kept thinking — well, keeping up with the gender-bender shennanigans of the media is one element of my job description at ICGS, no?
What made me drop it was this:
2. I finally realized why the paper had become so BORING. Everything I read in the pages national and state reporting of the Dallas Morning News (and sometimes the major local stories as well) I had already read on the internet the day before.
So, was I a dummy for shelling out the fee for their paper, or what?
I stopped subscribing. Looks like I’m just one of many who are doing this, for the same reasons.
Fr. B
We subscribe 4 days a week to the Denver Post, sometimes I read it, sometimes I don’t. Every week we are also sent our little free Community News, it’s sent to all the residents in our area and is actually fairly informative.
Well, here we go!! When I was young we used to have the morning Star Telegram and the Evening Star Telegram and the Ft. W. Press delivered in the aft. We also had mail delivered 2 times a day and on Sundays. Them were the days. Of course, I can remember a fellow coming by door to door selling needles, pins, etc. Can you believe he could make a living doing this? It was in the 30′s. And the ice wagon came down the back street and I used to run to get chips and when the mail plane flew over I tried to get outside to see it. And now I can email friends in Shanghai, China and England. Times they have a changed!!!
Good heavens, I completely forgot there used to be both morning AND evening editions of the Star-Telegram! Right you are.
I don’t recall the 30′s, obviously (Dmitry’s jokes about my age to the contrary), but I do recall the Fuller brush man coming.
Those were good brushes.
I remember the Fuller Brush Man, too. And the Avon Lady. Remember? Those ladies actually did go door-to-door, back in the day. We had a milk man and a bread man, too. We had that funky insulated, galvanized box on the front step for milk and butter, etc., and we had the bread man come and Mom would go out and choose what she wanted!
And yet in those days we had a downtown that flourished and malls were rare.
Wonder how unemployment compared from then to now?
Of course, we have Schwann’s.
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[impressively] My dear, *I* was an Avon lady for a few months!
And remember how when one went downtown one got dressed nicely? I clearly recall having to convince Mom it’d be okay for me to wear one of the new pants suits (IIRC, it was plum with small flowers) to catch the bus for a trip downtown.
We do take the local paper just to stay current on local stuff. And for the funnies. We know several of the reporters on it, and we think it’s a decent paper for our town. It’s interesting to read about the local issues and be able to….um…see what roads are being changed from one way to two-way…
Our paper’s kinda lame, too, but we take it for the local news, the comics, the ads, and the coupons.
Anyone who relies on a small market daily for their national news is not well-informed, IMO. However, it doesn’t sound as bad as Cindy’s local.
I think they managed to write the world’s stupidest editorial a couple of weeks ago, when the gas prices were peaking. The governor was suggesting possibly temporarily repealing the gas tax (never happened, BTW), and the paper editorialized that it wasn’t worth doing, because it would only save $.20, and what if the price went up another $.20 — it wouldn’t save anything anyway!
DUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The editorials are NOT why we read the paper.