[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by billethkid

My guess? almost nobody made their decision to buy or not based on what is in the newspaper (any paper)..

An educated guess, if not fact.
If someone did buy based on a newspaper (mostly with such heavy advertising) wow....they have issues.

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

It may seem biased to the OP. But it seems unbiased to two out of every three people living in The Villages. Papers are geared to their readers. I suggest the Orlando Slantinel.

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

two out of three?

Which is exactly why it should be seen as biased. LOL NEWSpapers should be geared to the NEWS based on FACTS not on the 2 out of 3 people they are writing for or who their owners send large amounts of money to impress. This would apply to any newspaper as well as the "Daily Sun" which questionably should even be considered a NEWSpaper but more of an advertising arm of The Villages.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by EdFNJ

Which is exactly why it should be seen as biased. LOL NEWSpapers should be geared to the NEWS based on FACTS not on the 2 out of 3 people they are writing for or who their owners send large amounts of money to impress. This would apply to any newspaper as well as the "Daily Sun" which questionably should even be considered a NEWSpaper but more of an advertising arm of The Villages.

MY guess we all know that. I have a subscription.......do you? If not your opinion is worthless....

[Bucco]

I do not understand what "bias" means in the context of the Daily Sun.

I have read the Daily Sun each and every morning for...well over 20 years. I know a number of very long time employees of the Daily Sun.

It is a "house organ", meaning it was something that originally was intended to assist in selling homes. It is undoubtedly the best place to find a home to buy or rent in The Villages. It was never intended to complete with Orlando or Tampa in news content.

Most "news" content is local.....as it should be.

If there is a "negative" story about The Villages, you will not read it.

Editorial content will always be 100% bias to one side. Along with presentation of national and international news.

SO, when folks call it bias......yeah it is....the owner and developer are one in the same. The mission is to BE BIAS .

It was never intended to give you unbiased news coverage.

I have asked why people say it is bias, with no luck.

You need to accept it for what it is.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Bucco

I do not understand what "bias" means in the context of the Daily Sun.

I have read the Daily Sun each and every morning for...well over 20 years. I know a number of very long time employees of the Daily Sun.

It is a "house organ", meaning it was something that originally was intended to assist in selling homes. It is undoubtedly the best place to find a home to buy or rent in The Villages. It was never intended to complete with Orlando or Tampa in news content.

Most "news" content is local.....as it should be.

If there is a "negative" story about The Villages, you will not read it.

Editorial content will always be 100% bias to one side. Along with presentation of national and international news.

SO, when folks call it bias......yeah it is....the owner and developer are one in the same. The mission is to BE BIAS .

It was never intended to give you unbiased news coverage.

I have asked why people say it is bias, with no luck.

You need to accept it for what it is.

When we first moved here we got a subscription and silly us thought it was a real newspaper dedicated to publish the "news".

Until recently thought it was really publishing the news. Now that we know more we understand it is owned by the developer and will print the "facts" as the developer decides them to be.

We will still get the paper as the info on what is going on around here is worth it to us but IMHO it is biased.

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

MY guess we all know that. I have a subscription.......do you? If not your opinion is worthless....

My comment wasn't addressed to you but to STU but gee willickers I sure do have a sub so that makes my opinion worth exactly the same as you paid for your opinion. I have had a sub since we moved in 3 1/2 years ago. I remember getting it at our first Market Night at LSL despite the fact the salesperson at the stand wouldn't even give me a "free" copy of the paper from her pile even after I gave her my $80something check for a full year. My wife likes the supermarket coupons and I like the funnies on Sunday. I figure I often waste more than the $84/yr I pay for it on other things and it adds solid weight to my trash bag so it doesn't blow down the street during a T-storm. Even if I did NOT have a sub I could still buy 'em for fitty cents in dozens of machines throughout The Villages on a "need to read" basis and form my opinion for just a couple bucks a month. Didn't know a sub was a requirement to form an opinion.

[egmcaninch]

Originally Posted by Hape2Bhr

I often wonder how many of us were forced to move here. And why others do not buy property and start their own development. I would take a look if you'd provide what is available here.

We moved here 3 years ago and have NO regrets. Our plan is to live here as long as we can. BTW - We live in Fenney.

[Trynforpar]

We moved here in 2018 because we loved what we saw and what there was to offer. The local news paper did not weigh in at all in our decision to move. I purchase the paper mainly so my wife can do her puzzles and I do like to scan the sports section. Most all local newspapers are biased and they use tactics to scare residents in the hope of swaying votes.

[Rich42]

Gee, the Daily Sun is owned and operated by the developer, why would you possibly think it was biased?

[airdale2]

Orlandos paper $220 per year. mostly about their crime but does have a section about Lake county.

[Girlcopper]

Originally Posted by nikjoep@hotmail.com

Is there another opinion that’s not biased like the daily sun about the Villages that we would get an honest answers

I really dont understand this post. Skip this paper if you feel its biased. Just like you would skip a channel if you didnt like the tv show. This is a small community paper. Of course, its biased. Why would you expect to have it say anything negative about the Villages?.?

[vb993]

Try the online "villages news" dot com

[J1ceasar]

Thank you guys for giving me such a laugh. Of course this paper is biased and slanted towards all the good of The villages. After reading the first page you want anybody realize that? People move to The villages not to get there fabulous well researched unbiased newspaper. They obviously move here for the wonderful restaurants the fantastic friendly neighbors who never talk about the gnomes on the lawns and the very inexpensive HOA fees. Everybody loves the fact that in the winter the restaurants are never crowded, in the summer we have wonderful customer service with everybody wearing masks.. you should look as the newspaper as another amenity, has somebody noted above it gives great coupons and comics and crossword puzzles all the rest as an Air Force pilot under attack would say is chaff. . I haven't found the news outlet whether it's TV radio or print that is not slanted one way or the other mostly to the other way when we first moved out here into Leesburg I was astounded to know that 55.8% of the population leaned exactly the same way I did from the town I moved from. I didn't worry about whether I would ever get the news again the way I read it as it was a thing called my brain which selected what I wanted to see read and understand. When you do read The villages newspaper you have a choice of believing anything they say although I will say that their writers of opinion and fact could have been the best advertising people on Madison avenue for slanting things the way they want you to tell about a 25% tax increase suddenly becomes needed and normal and nothing is going to change the fact that Sumter residents were taken for 50 million last year and will be taking for 50 million this year probably extra from the years before. All you have to do is Google the budgets and the taxes for Sumter and compare them to local counties near you. You can use your own brain to figure out whether or not your politicians are being efficient with your tax dollars, it does not matter who pays their salaries

[Tmarkwald]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Daily Sun gives new meaning to being biased.

The Villages is all sunshine and butterflies!

[Kvancamp]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Curious...can you define the Daily Suns bias ? In what way do they show this bias ?

Been here for over 20 years....just wondering what you discovered that makes you say what you are saying , and that doe not say I disagree, but if you are going make this accusation, it needs to be spelled out.

That is what adults do.

Thank you

If you wish, I will promise to respond, but want to hear what you say first.

I found the stories on the front page of The Daily Sun over the past few weeks, related to impact fees, were clearly biased, attempting to sway public opinion against the 3 commissioners who voted in favor of raising the fees. Call me naive, but I only learned a couple of weeks ago that the Sun is owned by The Villages Developer, so I was angry when I found that out. I thought they should have put a disclaimer on those stories, since the developer clearly has a big stake in these tax increases.

I've only lived in TV 8 months, and have been a subscriber to the Sun for 6 months. To be honest, the fact that it took me this long to notice the bias is a tribute to their editors. One of the reasons I subscribe to the Sun is for the world and national news from the Associated Press. Since I was a teenager, I have trusted the AP for its unbiased reporting, and I was determined to keep reading the AP stories when I moved to TV; but you can't read their stories on-line - as far as I know you can only get them in printed newspapers.

The Villages Developer is well known to have political leanings, nationally as well as locally. The Sun editors get hundreds of AP stories every day, and they get to choose which stories to run, where to place them, and how to headline them. Last year, there were many AP stories featured prominently on the front page of the Sun, fact-checking the president. That the developer allowed the editors the freedom to choose all these stories is a big plus in the Sun's favor.

So I'm not cancelling my subscription to the Sun, I'm just moving ahead with a little less naivete.