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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Newsy
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Hi Ruth!

-> -> day something different). Having a supply of newspaper on hand is
good
-> -> also if Steve decides to take apart a computer on the dining table;
it
-> -> doesn't get scratched if there's paper down to protect it.
-> 
->  HN> You could use an old towel for that (grin)
-> 
-> True, but we don't have too many "old" towels. Getting to the linen
-> "cabinet" to get them out can be a challenge too. Much easier to grab
-> yesterday's paper.
-> 
We have lots of old towels (grin) I never
throw them away as long as they can be used 
for something! Even drying off the dog when
he comes in from the rain!
-> 
-> ->  HN> daily paper, and three "freebees"; The
-> ->  HN> Weekly, the Volcano, and the "airlifter/
-> ->  HN> Ranger (a combined one for the AF and Army
-> ->  HN> respectively.)
-> ->  HN> Seattle has one daily, one Online
-> ->  HN> only daily (Seattle Times) and also
-> ->  HN> several "Freebees".
-> 
-> -> Get some good reporters in for the papers and they would do well. 
Can't
-> -> get rid of the military paper; the ones I read while Steve was active
-> -> duty always let me know what was going on, on post as the community
-> -> paper didn't cover that kind of thing.
-> 
->  HN> The freebees are actually better run
->  HN> than the daily. At least they have
->  HN> reporters and folks who understand
->  HN> the process...many of them former
->  HN> employees of the daily in fact.
-> 
-> Good reporters make a good paper. Owner can try to mess things up big
-> time but if the staff knows waht to do, they will do it despite the
-> owner. Ask my dad about that.
->
Gannet puts a lot of the articles
in from their national feed..local
stuff is still written by staff..but
seldom is it proof read very well. Which
is why the subscriptions are dwindling and
the classified ads are drying up and 
advertisers are refusing to pay the 
high fees they used to.
 
-> ->  HN> We get Sunset magazine...I've dropped
-> 
-> -> I like Sunset, bought a copy last time I was in AZ for plane reading 
on
-> -> the trip home.
-> 
->  HN> We've been subscribers since we got married
->  HN> in 73...it will be 39 years this month!
-> 
-> I've been getting Good Housekeeping since we got married except for a
-> year while we were in Germany. Gulf War put 2nd class mail on extra slow
-> boat so it was easier to buy it off the newsstand than to subscribe. My
-> favorite pound cake recipe came from a mid 70s issue--called for sour
-> cream but I always subbed plain yogurt with no problems.
->
I often sub those two.
 
-> ->  HN> I liked Clancy's and read all of
-> ->  HN> them...when the first, Hunt for
-> ->  HN> Red October came out I was amazed
-> ->  HN> at some of the things he revealed
-> ->  HN> in the book...they were so classified
-> ->  HN> when I was in the navy that you were
-> ->  HN> not even allowed to talk about them
-> ->  HN> off base or off the boat!
-> 
-> -> I started reading him in Frankfurt, first an excerpt of Patriot
Games,
-> -> then HFRO which lead to others. Was reading IIRC, Red Storm Rising
one
-> -> day & had it with me when Steve took me to his work place one day. 
Left
-> -> it in the car, face down so the folks wouldn't think I was trying to
-> -> pick up military secrets from what I was reading. But, yes, I was 
amazed
-> -> at what he got away with putting in his books.
-> 
->  HN> It's nice to have pull in
->  HN> high places!
-> 
-> Don't know how he got it but he sure had it!
-> 
And now he has several Gazillion bucks
and is part owner of the Baltimore orioles!
chat with you soon!
ha
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