[The Gray Hog]

While back north a few weeks ago and visiting some kin folks, I glanced
at the local a.m. newspaper from a town about our size here in T.V. and realized the paper had deminished into a ten page uninteresting read.
It got me to thinking about our local paper here in T.V. and how many news items and local events are well covered.
Some of our favorite pages are the puzzles, to keep our brain cells connecting and active, the front pages of world news along with all the local to-dos in another section of the paper.
What are some items some of you enjoy most about your hometown or T.V. papers. (This is not meant to be a rag on the rags question. Let's keep it
positive, pls.)

[chuckinca]

All the papers in our area are down to just a few pages and ads - even the former big papers from San Francisco.

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[swrinfla]

TGH:

I've always enjoyed the morning paper with my breakfast and two-three cups of coffee. While plenty of folks laugh about our local journal, I think it does an admirable job. And, it has improved since I first subscribed to it more than 5 years ago. Lots more national and world news. Quality of that news depends, of course, on the quality of the Associated Press, but I'll say this:

The paper is one h*** of a lot better at keeping me informed about what's happening in the world than Orlando television!

Once upon a time, my old hometown had two pretty good papers. One of them folded many years ago. The survivor used to be one of the best in the country, but I was increasingly disappointed in its product (except, it had two full pages of comics, which I read with devotion)!

Many papers across the country are shutting down, going to an online format only are suffering depression days. Our own Daily Sun will continue to grow, and I expect to continue enjoying it while sipping my morning cup.

While we know we have to live with the political slant of its columnists and the rose-colored glasses eyeing life in TV, it always makes my day start off on the right foot!



SWR

[TrudyM]

The Seattle Post Intelligencer went under this year. It had been a mainstay of the suburbs with the goings on of the towns and their teams as well as national and state news. It is now gone. The Seattle Times once one of the largest papers in the country is in trouble. They are giving away the daily to keep up the circulation numbers so they don't have to adjust their advertizing rates. My town of 35,000 has a little local weekly paper and it is is staying afloat but from what I read daily papers are in trouble all over the country. With the internet print media is slowly dieing.

[downeaster]

I agree with SWR.
We used to get the Orlando Sentinel to supplement the Sun. We suddenly realized we were getting far more out of the Sun and the Sentinel was going down hill fast.
As far as television news, they don't report it, they manufacture it. They are nothing but side show barkers. "Tune in tonight at 11:00 and we will tell you who shot JR!!!!" One channel is staking their whole career on the Casey Anthony case.

[Bryan]

I agree with SWRinFla about The Daily Sun - it does a heck of a good job covering local events, local activities, local clubs, etc. I also agree that they use rose tinted glasses when covering adverse items about TV. I like The Daily Sun and just renewed my subscription to it.

[Army Guy]

I so totally agree. I am a paper person also, they can keep the internet, I like to hold it and read with my coffee. But our local paper is a joke. The only paper IMO worth anything is The Wall Street Journal, but I don't have the time to really read it. On our visits down to TV I love the Daily Sun. It does an awesome job of being what a local paper should be, only wish it had a little more business news, but other wise it is great. Can't wait till we move and are there full-time to read everday.

Army Guy

[cybrgeezer]

SWR:

Sounds like you're from my hometown, St. Louis. We had both the Globe-Democrat and the Post-Dispatch until the Globe went under. And the Post had the two pages of comics (one in color) every day, more on Sunday.

When I was in high school, my father and I ran a Globe motor route in the Central West End. One thing I liked about it was that the Globe was a six-day paper and we got Sunday off. Also, because the Globe was the morning paper and we started our route at 12:30 a.m., we never had to fight any traffic to deliver.

Being in the newspaper business myself for over 40 years now, I always advised my kids to stay out of it. But after the Globe died, a new startup called the St. Louis Sun was operating for about a year. When it died, my son, daughter and son-in-law were all working there.

They've never had any trouble staying away from the business since then.

[swrinfla]

cybr:

You hit the nail on the head! I lived in the Central West End from July 1962 until February 2005, and always took both papers. Maybe you delivered my Globe!

I'd just about forgotten the ill-fated Sun. They tried hard, but it wasn't in the cards to succeed.

SWR

[Muncle]

Originally Posted by swrinfla

cybr:

You hit the nail on the head! I lived in the Central West End from July 1962 until February 2005, and always took both papers. Maybe you delivered my Globe!

I'd just about forgotten the ill-fated Sun. They tried hard, but it wasn't in the cards to succeed.

SWR

What about The Riverfront Times? I've been gone from STL since '84,, but it was growing strongly among the younger set and those who worked downtown. 'Course, it wasn't a "real" newspaper.



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[cybrgeezer]

SWR:

OK, "Central West End" is a little broad. Our route was bordered by Delmar, DeBaliviere, Lindell and Skinker boulevards. We owned and operated it from mid-1961 until early to mid-1964. My dad bought it for the extra income because of my mother's illness and she died in November 1963. He found a buyer for it a few months later.

On Friday nights, we would deliver the Saturday morning paper and that area was mostly apartments, including some Washington University fraternity houses, which were still, er, lively at the hour we delivered.

Another memory of that job was when Lew Burdette was pitching for the Cards. He rented a big house on Lindell with a circular driveway and paid us extra to drive up and deliver the paper to his porch instead of throwing it on the lawn from the street.

Seems like long ago and far away ... wait, it WAS!

[swrinfla]

cybr:

I'll keep it short, as the topic cops may be lurking!

So, you had the very western edge of the City. Still considered Central West End. I lived between Union & Kingshighway, Delmar & Skinker. Some multi-story apartemnt buildings but mostly private homes. NOTE: I didn't live on Skinker, nor Westmoreland nor Portland. Above my "touch," for sure.

Seems you're not in TV. Hope Jax is fun, even though it can't possibly be as much fun as YV!

SWR