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Skriven 2012-03-01 21:34:50 av HAP NEWSOM (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
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Hey Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  HN> We do not subscribe to the local
-> ->  HN> paper any more either...over the
-> 
-> -> Steve would rather I read it on line but I like to curl up with the
-> -> print edition. What's not used in other ways goes into the recylcle 
bag
-> 
->  HN> Most of the time I never
->  HN> got around to reading the paper
->  HN> unless it was a specific story.
->  HN> I did get the coupons and grocery
->  HN> specials all laid out.
-> 
-> We could get just the Sunday paper for coupons and Wednesday for grocery
-> ads but I like getting it every day. Helps keep a line of continuity in
-> the comics that run strips with story lines (vs one day one topic, next
-> day something different). Having a supply of newspaper on hand is good
-> also if Steve decides to take apart a computer on the dining table; it
-> doesn't get scratched if there's paper down to protect it.
->
You could use an old towel for that (grin)
 
-> ->  HN> years it has become more and more a
-> ->  HN> poorly executed badly written and
-> ->  HN> seldom proof read rag. I get news
-> 
-> -> Sounds like somebody needs to step in and reform it. There's only the
-> -> one in the area tho? I would have thought your area would be large
-> 
->  HN> It's mostly "computer run" now...and not
->  HN> very well at that. Staff has been reduced
->  HN> several times and there are few actual
->  HN> workers there anymore. Tacoma has one
-> 
-> That's no way to run a newspaper! They need reporters who can go out and
-> cover events, large or small, then come back and write a coherent story
-> about it. TV coverage is not an adequate substitute.
-> 
It's currently owned and operated 
by Gannet...and they are not real
big on spending money...period

->  HN> daily paper, and three "freebees"; The
->  HN> Weekly, the Volcano, and the "airlifter/
->  HN> Ranger (a combined one for the AF and Army
->  HN> respectively.)
->  HN> Seattle has one daily, one Online
->  HN> only daily (Seattle Times) and also
->  HN> several "Freebees".
-> 
-> Get some good reporters in for the papers and they would do well. Can't
-> get rid of the military paper; the ones I read while Steve was active
-> duty always let me know what was going on, on post as the community
-> paper didn't cover that kind of thing.
->
The freebees are actually better run
than the daily. At least they have 
reporters and folks who understand
the process...many of them former
employees of the daily in fact.
 
-> ->  HN> from TV, Radio, and the internet
-> ->  HN> mostly. For Sports...read baseball,
-> ->  HN> I go to a couple of blogs I like
-> ->  HN> and the team's website as well.
-> 
-> -> As well as all kinds of food web sites that'll give you recipes and
-> -> interested in) this past year. Renewed "Cooking Light" and subscribed 
to
-> -> "Cooks Illustrated" but dropped Food Network magazine. Every time I 
went
-> 
->  HN> We get Sunset magazine...I've dropped
-> 
-> I like Sunset, bought a copy last time I was in AZ for plane reading on
-> the trip home.
->
We've been subscribers since we got married
in 73...it will be 39 years this month!
 
->  HN> all three of my photo magazine subscriptions,
->  HN> and when I feel the need for one I can buy
->  HN> it at the local supermarket. or Barnes
-> 
-> We don't get to B&N very often. I figure I've got enough quilting
-> patterns to last me a good while--at least thru all the fabric I've got.
->
Yeah...most of the photo stuff
I see in the magazines is rehashed
stuff from times gone by...and 
photoshop stuff, which changes 
every time you turn around.
 
-> ->  HN> a few others...I like spy novels.
-> 
-> -> I like a good action one--used to read Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan ones as
-> 
->  HN> I liked Clancy's and read all of
->  HN> them...when the first, Hunt for
->  HN> Red October came out I was amazed
->  HN> at some of the things he revealed
->  HN> in the book...they were so classified
->  HN> when I was in the navy that you were
->  HN> not even allowed to talk about them
->  HN> off base or off the boat!
-> 
-> I started reading him in Frankfurt, first an excerpt of Patriot Games,
-> then HFRO which lead to others. Was reading IIRC, Red Storm Rising one
-> day & had it with me when Steve took me to his work place one day. Left
-> it in the car, face down so the folks wouldn't think I was trying to
-> pick up military secrets from what I was reading. But, yes, I was amazed
-> at what he got away with putting in his books.
->
It's nice to have pull in 
high places! 
chat with you soon!
hap
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