I’m so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.
Like, read every sentence in every story of each day’s newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.
I’m so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.
Like, read every sentence in every story of each day’s newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.
I tried a few years ago but couldn’t get over the absurd amount of advertising and dumb bullshit so I canceled my subscription. I would love to spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading the paper like an old-timey person but the paper is at least 90% garbage. The 10% that isn’t garbage is poorly edited and often has typos. It felt like I was being insulted every time I opened it up.
This right here. I remember when finding an error in the paper was like finding a four-leaf clover, now it’s more like finding an article without an error is that rare!
The occasional ETAOIN SHRDLU :)
My mom worked for a small paper as a linotype operator around the late 60s to early 70s. :)
It was 50% garbage in the 90s and quickly spiraled out of control as the internet grew in popularity.
The adverts in online news media are wayyyyy worse, though.
I almost never see any of them between my DNS filtering and ublock.