For many, many years, I loved getting the newspaper. Like has been said before, there’s something satisfying to having it in print, in your hands.
However, about two years ago, I went to a sunday-only subscription, simply because of the content of the newspaper. I want my paper to be factual, and simply be a reporting of the events. ALL of the news stories had a specific slant to them, either politically or environmentally, and it became more about the opinion of the authors than the simple reporting of facts.
I keep the sunday paper to (A) read the local stories, and (B) read the comics.
Agree, it’s hard to find just straight news stories without the reporter/author turning it into an op ed piece. But I guess reporting just the facts is kind of boring and most everyone wants to share their own ideas to go along with the story.
Maybe they should have embraced websites sooner and not used 1996 internet monetization practices in 2016.
Newspaper websites are some of the worst and hardest to read. They also seem to have the most intrusive and least profitable advertising types. Lately they all have the same exact layout, so many of the newspapers are exactly the same except for the name on a very small logo, and the navigation is impossible.
A lot of news PAPER people put the format itself above the news, and then were very slow in adapting to changes in culture and business. They attacked and demeaned people who were shut out by their old boys networks and went and did their own journalism in other places and entrepreneurs who figured out how to give away information and still paid. That’s not even getting into the news people who spent decades covering up heinous crimes and government incompetence while trying to sabotage serious journalists who were doing real work on blogs and websites, and then trying to take credit for it later.
Actually I think the media organizations that take the ‘worst website’ prize are TV stations. Those have all used an identical, awful format for years. It’s impossible to find what you are looking for on any of them, and they don’t seem to care.