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Cancelled my Chicago Tribune subscription...

Cephus said:
Seriously, anyone reads a newspaper anymore? We cancelled our subscription decades ago.
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Here in Toronto, I have a choice of four dailies, and I read two of them every day - one conservative in slant and one very liberal in slant. I buy the conservative one and I get the liberal one free at McDonalds - wouldn't read it otherwise, it's a leftist rag. But I love print - media and books - love the feel and heft of what I'm reading. Don't own a smart phone and don't use the internet too much for news gathering since I don't trust much of it. Call me old fashioned or a dinosaur, but I'll be buried holding a newspaper and a book and be glad for the company.
 
MaggieD said:
I've been a Tribune reader for years. Stopped getting the newspaper four or five years ago and, in the last two years, began paying for their Andreoid app on my IPad.

Just cancelled it a few weeks ago when I noticed they'd begun listing their editorial comment right in with news headlines and not marking it. Called to express my displeasure and cancelled.

I consider that to be misleading and unethical.

You?
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So now you've officially become the proverbial little old lady who canceled her newspaper subscription because they didn't maintain your world view?

:lol: ;)
 
Do people really still pay for newspapers?
 
radcen said:
So now you've officially become the proverbial little old lady who canceled her newspaper subscription because they didn't maintain your world view?

:lol: ;)
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Only a little old man would say that.

;)
 
MaggieD said:
I've been a Tribune reader for years. Stopped getting the newspaper four or five years ago and, in the last two years, began paying for their Andreoid app on my IPad.

Just cancelled it a few weeks ago when I noticed they'd begun listing their editorial comment right in with news headlines and not marking it. Called to express my displeasure and cancelled.

I consider that to be misleading and unethical.

You?
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I want to agree with you, but i'm a little unclear of the context. Did they seem to misleadingly present separate editorial articles? Or was it that they started mixing editorial content into their news articles?

One of the big issues i've had with Fox News over the years isn't that they lean right so much as that they often seem to present untrue, or at least unverified, content as though it is true. It's like Ivanka Trump herself said:

Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true. This doesn't mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.
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The Trump Card
Ivanka Trump
 
Josie said:
No?....
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It's one of those phrases they used to point out to us in school where a comma changes the whole meaning. My apologies for making a bad joke. ;)
 
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