And don't even think about the internet options. For some reason, Yahoo! News, a service I had come to like and peruse daily, has lately changed to a slate of opinions and fluff pieces. I do access it mainly on an iPad now, so perhaps someone has pieced together info on me from that iOS data-hole and concluded I'm an air-head California Kid. (I must try to act my age on the internet).
It's not that I'm a masochist or anything. I don't desire to be depressed by all the bad News in the world; but I do want to be informed, and I want it as 'just the facts, please'. I'll supply the opinion, thank you very much.
Surprisingly, I did find some Real News recently; of all places in the newspaper. My opinion of our local rag, the Los Angeles Times, had fallen to the point it typically was shuffled from the front porch straight under the dog, without reading. The other day, though, I happened to glance at a few of the back pages, and - Whoa - I stopped in my tracks. Real News, and mainly the facts, in article after article. A veritable News Bonanza!
I'm hoping this is a new trend: newspapers, in their desperation, resorting to actual reportage of factual News, in an effort to differentiate from the increasingly mindless televised, posted, streamed, and tweeted mixed bag of fact, opinion, and near-fiction.
That one edition may have been a fluke, or this trend may not last. In the meantime, though, the dog will have to hold it in, or pee outside for a change.
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I'm glad you're boring into the Times.
My daughter recently moved into a managing editor position at a local California paper, and your comments will make her smile.
My opinion is for her and all the papers to dump the opinion sections. It just pisses off a section of the polarized readership.
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