"Anyone who wants to stay in touch with national, international and local events looks forward to reading the newspaper every day"

I'm sorry but this is so dated as to be codwallop. For one thing newsopapers are notorious at the fine art of distortion in support of circulation figures. They seek controversy or make it where ther eis none; they emphasize and dramatize the danger and harmful elements in the environment and refuse to give much space to positive accomplishments, benevolent developments, or siomple progress. It is still true you can learn more about the little filler stories.

I suck up a large volumer of news every morning and I haven't read anewspaper in months. I find out what is happening from groups of people all over th eplanet juist by visiting appropriate news groups and specialized interest portals such as SlashDot. I can find someone in any part of the world to offer a local opinion, if I care to do so, and I can read news culls from dozens of wire services and newspapers. Why should I limit myself to the parochial and largely biased angles of, for example, the yellow right-wing San Diego Union, for example?

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