For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 03, 2010

… for reading Elly… not for training…

And have you been reading it first?

Well, we could say this is a primitive form of recycling …although I’m not certain if it is Elly or Farley who is putting an otherwise wasted resource to reuse.

Since the dog saw more of the paper than Elly, maybe he should be in that class.

First, I noticed that the only thing in my local daily paper that I was actually reading was the comics – the news, weather, etc. I could get faster, easier, and more up-to-date on the Internet. (And a broader range of viewpoints to think about.)

Second, I noticed that I could read my favorite comic strips, and avoid the others, on the Internet. For free.

Third, I cancelled my newspaper subscription.

End of story.

nooos…paper? what is this thing you speak of?

j/k …still buy the Sunday edition. :-)

Not many articles in the local paper which are entertaining.

I’ve stopped reading the newspaper because a third grader could write the report better and with fewer mistakes. It is quite unnerving of how bad journalist (and I use that word loosely) have gotten. If they can string a couple of sentences together, a newspaper will hire them and then put them on the front page. I have a passion for the written word, and I guess it shows.

I canceled my paper because the delivery person couldn’t seem to find my house.

Six spam messages in a row, all from the same “user”– c’mon, Go Comics, you should at least have some anti-flood filters in place! Jeeze.

As for newspapers vs Internet…just keep in mind that the Internet has much of the same content you were once paying for, and it’s not gotten any cheaper to provide…