Text 13551, 81 rader
Skriven 2014-05-22 16:30:27 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 13526 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: News(?)paper was: Italia
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Hi Dave,

 RH> I've still got enough printer's ink in my blood that I like to see the
 RH> hard copy. We get our foods section on Wednesdays; that seems to be
 RH> quite typical, based on the various other papers we've gotten over the
 RH> years.

 DD> I ran/edited/wrote/reported/delivered, etc. small country weeklies for
 DD> a number of years. So, I have a fair idea of what goes into making a
 DD> decent paper. Aside from the "hard" news, that is. All the "who
 DD> visited" and "with the sick" and other back-fence gossipy stuff is
 DD> important in a small town. As is the local school and youth sports
 DD> stuff. And the town council activities. And an extended report on what
 DD> the editor sees when standing on Wednesday looking both ways for
 DD> Sunday - which is pretty much all there is to do in small town America
 DD> these days.

Births, deaths, and so forth. The paper I grew up with had been going so
long that it ran a 10-20-50 years ago column. Overall, tho, very little
editorialising except when big issues came up.

 NB> IF I was still getting the paper, it would be in hardcopy... I gave up
 NB> on our local rag entirely when they started biasing it to online, and
 NB> were raising the price accordingly whether or not you'd get any value
 NB> out of all their online/phone options... Not even the foods section or
 NB> the coupons were enough to tip the balance any more...

 RH> Ours upped the price and is pushing the on line/phone editions as well.
 RH> I'm just enough old school on things like newspapers that I'd rather
 RH> read the physical edition. I do go thru the coupon fliers, passing them
 RH> on to someone in church who passes them on to a neighbor (don't know if
 RH> they go any further). A physical paper is also an eye break from on
 RH> screen reading for me. The type size is easy on my eyes and I'm not
 RH> straining as I would be to read it on my phone.

 DD> I read the occasional local news item on out on-line edition of the
 DD> local bird-cage liner. But, it's painfully hard to get to what one is
 DD> looking for. Much harder than opening a physical paper and flipping
 DD> through the pages, scanning for items of interest. Wednesday and

It's easier to pick up and put down a paper copy when you're juggling
loads of laundry between washer and dryer, cooking/clean up from a meal,
etc. Sometimes if I don't get the morning paper read until evening, I
tell Steve I want to get it read before it turns into yesterday's news.

 DD> Sunday papers have the bulk of the grocery adverts - and other than

We get them on Wednesday here. Kroger used to do theirs on Sunday but a
while back, fell in line with the other stores. They only do a back of a
section ad whereas Harris Teeter, Lowe's, Food Lion and Aldi's do a
separate flyer.

 DD> that there isn't much of interest to me in *any* edition of the State
 DD> Journal-Register. I made the mistake of taking a 12 week Wednesday
 DD> thru Sunday "trial" subscription. WOW! Talk about a full-court press
 DD> to get me to re-subscribe. Snail mail, e-mail, phone calls, etc. They
 DD> simply won't accept my SCROOM! attitude over their rag.

We canceled Sirius recently and they've started coming at us to renew.
I'm going to drop "Cooking Light" when it expires in a few months; I
know I'll get innindated by offers to renew. It has some interesting
recipes but a most of them are not low carb. Lower calorie is even
debatable, low carb is more of a joke.


 DD>       Title: Ropa Vieja *
 DD>  Categories: Latino, Beef, Chilies, Sauces, Wine
 DD>       Yield: 10 Servings

I've done similar, but without the wine.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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