My new Kindle Fire 7 arrived with The Washington Post presubscribed for some free trial period. The headlines are horrible but fascinating -- it's like having a sewer back up through a tidal pool every day: repulsive but you have to look. Alas, it's also banal and on the whole, represents the same dumbing-down that caused me to drop the local paper some years ago. You can line catboxes just as well with the free hippie newspaper.
You give 'em a First Amendment and what do they do with it? Print photos of swimmers giving death stares at their competitors.
BUILDING A 1:1 BALUN
4 years ago
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I switched from the Gannett Star to the WSJ several years ago, so I could have an opinion and editorial page that I could read without screaming at it.
I haven't missed the local news at all.
Free ain't cheap, in so many ways.
I deleted it the second I found their gracious benefit {/sarc}.
Yup.... there was some serious delet'in going on when I got mine.
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