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As you infrequent readers well know, I\u2019m not the kind of person who complains or whines or throws himself on the ground in fits of rage over some insignificant slight.\u00a0 Okay, sometimes I do.\u00a0 And all right, maybe that\u2019s basically my M.O.\u00a0 Take this latest outrage and you tell me if I\u2019m overwrought to what essentially is another of those small indignities that make everyday life a smidgeon smaller and a tad harder to take.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m talking about my two daily newspapers, morning papers, the ones I read quietly guzzling coffee before undertaking chores and work and the daily grind — those papers, delivered by 6:15 a.m. by some poor schmuck paid by the mile and by the paper, using his or her own car, the one with the failing muffler and the terrible mpg\u2019s, but usually on time.\u00a0 But gee, the publishers of those two papers evidently can\u2019t round up delivery folks to get up at 3 a.m., hit the distribution sites, then motor down to this end of the island at the end of the world, so their solution: mail the day\u2019s edition, already old news in a digital age of instantaneous information, via the U.S. Postal Service, the one the last Administration made far less efficient, hoping to undercut our faith in a system going back to old Ben Franklin.<\/p>\n
So that now we get our morning paper late afternoon.\u00a0 You tell me what universe, economic or journalistic, this makes sense in?\u00a0 It is, after all, called a NEWspaper, not a history essay.\u00a0 And yeah, I KNOW I can substitute the New York Times online or I can listen to NPR mornings, repeated every two hours, or I can watch daytime TV and catch the headlines on local news channels \u2026 but dammit, I\u2019m an old codger and I want my, not MTV, my newspaper to read quietly in the morning WITH coffee.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, sorry to whine, but now I read Yesterday\u2019s news in the morning.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s pathetic and possibly intolerable over the long run.\u00a0 But for now that\u2019s my solution and I\u2019m not happy about it.\u00a0 Just thought you needed to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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