Out-to-Lunch
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
In Milwaukee, the call letters WTMJ stand for The Milwaukee Journal.
I live a short stroll from WTMJ's studio, and (in best Johnny Carson voice), "I did not know that."
In Milwaukee, the call letters WTMJ stand for The Milwaukee Journal.
don’t forget the afternoon Chicago American which later morphed into Chicago Today. both were PM dailes. in those days we got the Trib in the morning and the American in the afternoon. as a nerdy kid i read and enjoyed both.Cool!
Trivia: the TV channel "WGN" was named after World's Greatest Newspaper.
Growing up in Chicago, you had your choices. The Trib leaned right, the Sun-Times leaned left, and the Daily News was your convenient after work reading.
Dad liked the Sun-Times since he was a union man. He also liked the small tabloid format. I liked the simpler style compared to the complicated reads in the Trib. But it seemed like both covered everything. Despite the Sun Times left lean, they were pretty harsh on the City administration from time to time. That's what I miss: balance even if if there is an editorial lean.
WGN and the Chicago Cubs. Ahhhhh
summer!!!
My father was a political reporter first for the Mpls Star and Tribune and then for the Saint Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press.
My first "job" was delivering the Tribune before heading off to elementary school. I would use a shoulder strap news paper bag Mon. thru Sat. and a yellow pushcart for the heavier Sunday paper. (That was fun when it was -20 and snowing )
I still pay for the daily paper to be delivered to the door.
That’s what we use.
Goes Apple News cover all the WSJ content?
i had a large route ...125+ papers...for my hometown twice-weekly, thursday and sunday. papers were dropped off late wednesday and saturday nights...sometimes very late. i had to fold and rubber band them (had to buy my own rubber bands) and then up early...earlier on thursday to be done in time for b’fast and school. loaded up my bike..rain or snow..with a bag balanced on the handle bars and more stuffed in the rear twin baskets. had to reload the bag at least once.To the door? Mine are barely on the driveway approach. Had I thrown papers way down there I would have had a lot of upset customers on my paper route.
Instead I just got huge quads from hauling those papers around on my bike with the massive saddlebags. Not that I minded. I loved my job.
I'm just amused that I get a Christmas card every year (in with the paper) and a self addressed envelope from someone I have never met who drives the route and barely gets the paper on the driveway approach.
Then again maybe that works, just not with me.
To the door? Mine are barely on the driveway approach. Had I thrown papers way down there I would have had a lot of upset customers on my paper route.
Instead I just got huge quads from hauling those papers around on my bike with the massive saddlebags. Not that I minded. I loved my job.
I'm just amused that I get a Christmas card every year (in with the paper) and a self addressed envelope from someone I have never met who drives the route and barely gets the paper on the driveway approach.
Then again maybe that works, just not with me.
We’ve always had a subscription to the local paper, which is now digital only. I used to read free news on the internet, but got tired of the low quality. We now subscribe to both the local paper and the NYT. I’m happy with the depth of coverage in the NYT, but sometimes think about adding a subscription to the Washington Post.
Our carrier is so good that s/he does a bank shot off a wall, and lags the paper up to the door s/he can not even see! I am impressed. Hope s/he remains our carrier. Oh, and s/he RUNS to and from the elevator - I assume so that s/he can catch the elevator before it leaves. THIS year at Christmas, there WILL be an envelope on our gate for our carrier! YMMV
I haven't tried Apple News but from what I've read Apple News only includes a subset of the WSJ. Does it include WSJ editorials? Letters? Also, I sometimes comment on WSJ articles and I suspect that you have to be a subscriber to do that.Why would you pay $20/month for WSJ when you can subscribe to Apple News and get just about every publication in existence, including WSJ, for $10/month?
I was wondering the same thing. Apparently you get a "curated sample" of the WSJ according to https://www.macworld.com/article/3385029/apple-news-plus-faq.html
The standard rate is pricey, but if you check their website they offer some pretty good discounts. It's also relatively easy to get them to get them to extend the discount for renewals.I miss the WSJ but it's just too expensive.
It does vary!
They ran a lot of screamer headlines in all caps back then. I think I even recall them using exclamation points.
It is not fake news, it is exclusive access to alternative facts.Who needs to pay for news, when you can get tremendous amount of faked news free from the Interweb?
Case in point: Recently, I ran across a pseudo news channel on Youtube that claimed the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China had collapsed. Whoa! That would mean millions of Chinese were being swept out to sea.
I thought the news would hit the headlines on all major news channels, but nothing was mentioned anywhere on any legitimate news channel when I searched. It's amazing how blatant lies could be told on the Web and worse, sometimes repeated again and again until it became truth.
And of course I have refrained from mentioning political fake news that have been running rampant. Good grief!