The Daily News: I'm having second thoughts about my newspaper subscription. I have a subscription for six months for $1.00. Every day, I read about someone killing or trying to kill...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I'm having second thoughts about my newspaper subscription. I have a subscription for six months for $1.00. Every day, I read about someone killing or trying to kill someone, and this is locally. In today's news, a man got into an argument with his wife and shot her with his crossbow. She was holding their three-week-old baby at the time. Hubby tried to prevent her from calling 911, and he took off in his "red Ram pickup truck." When help arrived, the baby was dead, and the wife was taken to the hospital. The man was soon caught and jailed.

A man tried to kill his friend by bashing his head in with a hammer, and a local jury found a murder suspect not guilty. In more distant news (MA) a couple who celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary over the weekend was stabbed to death in their home during a burglary.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm having second thoughts about my newspaper subs... (show quote)

Today I'm more surprised that ANYONE Was Charged with a crime.
As for the $1.00/day "Newspaper Subscription". That is the dying gasp of yet another anachronism circling the drain. >Grin*<
Jerry, please cheer up, and . . . .
Smile,
JimmyT Sends

* Clarification/Context for the thin-skinned, sigh.

jojo Smith Loc: Northern Michigan

i read it on the internet, and i am so blessed i we moved from Detroit to a small town in northern Michigan,, it was a great city going up but got to be bad as the year rolled by .. i remember the 67 riots and my Dad had us stay away from the windows and had a weapon out in case ,,, the smell of smoked from molv cocktails and the arm guards with the the tanks rolling down the streets,i never want to see that again in

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jojo Smith wrote:

i read it on the internet, and i am so blessed i we moved from Detroit to a small town in northern Michigan,, it was a great city going up but got to be bad as the year rolled by .. i remember the 67 riots and my Dad had us stay away from the windows and had a weapon out in case ,,, the smell of smoked from molv cocktails and the arm guards with the the tanks rolling down the streets,i never want to see that again in

Ah, memories.

anotherview Loc: California

The news media outlets via their workers thrive on extremes, the worst of matters, catastrophe, controversy, sensation, one-sidedness, and alarmism.

These outlets also revel in bias, lies, and propaganda.

They prefer smears, hate, slants, and vilification over fairness, objectivity, and balance. They deliberately omit controlling facts that would mitigate the import of their reports. This approach overall amounts to intellectual dishonesty.

Further, they appeal to feelings and emotions instead of presenting verifiable facts and information in a context of reason.

In short, the news media workers lack intellectual training. But they know how to string words together to produce interesting sentences. In this environment, true reportage suffers.

At bottom, under the color of newsworthiness, these workers ill serve the public in a democracy.

jerryc41 wrote:

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Toment Loc: FL, IL

I’m about to cancel mine too. Nothing but crime blotter and feature stuff

lesdmd Loc: Middleton Wi via N.Y.C. & Cleveland

So, all you have posted . . . You were FORCED to read this sort of crap, apparently for some of you with great detail retention?

Vector

A sad state of affairs indeed, but to me it looks like they're giving us (the country) what we want. If good news sold, I think things would be different. Jerry Springer for example.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

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The newspaper coverage where I am is not so gruesome though the same may be happening. But I hear or read the State Wide, National, and Intetnational news and it makes me ill with all the death, violence, and hate. And of course it is in my face too on the Web and TV. TV or film drama is ok.

anotherview Loc: California

For my part, I tend to skip the superficial news offering. One click of the mouse device takes my computer display elseware.

lamiaceae wrote:

The newspaper coverage where I am is not so gruesome though the same may be happening. But I hear or read the State Wide, National, and Intetnational news and it makes me ill with all the death, violence, and hate. And of course it is in my face too on the Web and TV. TV or film drama is ok.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

jerryc41 wrote:

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After the six months they will probably want to jack your rate sky high.

mr spock Loc: Fairfield CT

anotherview wrote:

The news media outlets via their workers thrive on... (show quote)

Put another way we no longer have a free press in this country

kvanhook Loc: Oriental, NC

I read the first post as "six months for $1.00". I didn't read that as "$1.00 per day", that Jimmy T said. So, I'm confused. But it doesn't matter, I'm just an old fart and that type of thing happens to me.

FreddB Loc: PA - Delaware County

kvanhook wrote:

I read the first post as "six months for $1.00". I didn't read that as "$1.00 per day", that Jimmy T said. So, I'm confused. But it doesn't matter, I'm just an old fart and that type of thing happens to me.

$1 for six months, in the hope that you’ll forget to cancel. Then, they can bang your credit card for an outrageous amount.

Ruthlessrider

I disagree! We have a free press, but we also have a large number of people who are poor consumers of the news. Can’t discriminate between fact and fiction. I don’t like the news about death and destruction any more than the next guy, but most who don’t like that kind of news won’t lift a finger to address, with their reps, the root causes of the behavior being reported.