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Old 02-14-2025, 05:42 PM
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It really isn’t much of a newspaper. Note how 3/4s of it is all about homes for sale.

Straight from Wikipedia
“ The newspaper's strategy is to be a print-first publication, with a recent Sunday issue including a 36-page insert listing the schedules of hundreds of clubs and recreation centers within the Villages, 48 pages of editorial content and 14 pages of classified advertising. The Daily Sun is also bucking the trend by loading its pages with advertisements for real estate, doctors, banks, golf courses, restaurants, and a wide selection of retail outlets”
Yes, Wikipedia, that bastion of pure truth... but seriously, the Sun has always been an instrument of positive "news" only that puts the Villages in the best light, and (possibly ?) as such can also be written off as advertising for tax purposes ? ? Don't know. But long ago before when we were years from retirement, we came up to central Florida to visit some family in Leesburg. They suggested we go to the Spanish Springs square, a public square that had free entertainment nightly. It was a night of extreme tragedy, a car plowed into the crowd and killed an individual. We were all in shock, running every direction. The next day we bought a Daily Sun to find out exactly what happened... no one had any idea when we were all running every direction. Never even knew how many were killed at the time it happened... car actually came right through some barricades. Will never forget the shock the next day that not only was it not the headline of the villages paper, it was NOT EVEN MENTION THAT DAY OR THERE AFTER. Years later when we retired up here, that never left our minds, that the very paper of the town where such a shocking thing happened in such a small town would never even mentioned in the paper ! After moving here we finally figured it out, LOL, even if a bomb in dropped on the area they answer the phone with "it's a BEAUTIFUL day in the Villages'....lol. The Ostrich theory rules here, maybe that's why it's considered a "bubble"...LOL !