The Sunday paper
Posted on | September 16, 2007 | No Comments
Earlier this week, I wrote about going without a paper for a while. Today, our first Sunday New York Times showed up just in time for coffee and reading before the start of the Niners-Rams game early. It was great to see it lying, enrobed in blue plastic, in the driveway. With Malcolm still snoozing, it was an hour of peaceful education, until Maggie called to say the cops broke up her house party in Berkeley this morning. (I’m soooo proud!) The Times is obviously different from a local paper, but this should go without saying: If you want to engage with the world around, your community, your county, your state, your country, I don’t see how you can do it without a newspaper. A weekly doesn’t really cut it and the web, for all the wonder of RSS feeds, is still very, very manual. Television news? Puhleeeeze. The more daily newspaper readership declines and the more communications tools abound, the worse the social dialogue becomes. Go figure. Get the kids to read. It’s only way to save the Republic.
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