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circletrack 08-04-2016 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1266026)
I haven't heard that you have to subscribe to it.

I found it shortly after I joined here when someone was screeching about it then. I simply saved it to favorites and go look occasionally, but have not had to sign up for anything.




I guess what continually amazes me however, are all the people that become apoplectic about a news source that actually doesn't withhold facts and is willing to be more than a "company town rag trying to sell homes"...such as we have with The Happy Paper.

Even for those who are thoroughly opposed to the 1st Amendment of the COTUS (which quite surprisingly given the political makeup, seems to be quite a few around here), you have to make an effort to get to that (or any other) news sources...so the solution to what so easily sends you into a rage is actually quite controllable.

Just STOP making that effort of clicking on the site...and your problems are solved. :shrug:

It really is as simple as that. :ho:

And it's just a guess on my part, but I'm thinking those same people don't really care for the POA newsletter either. :D
Beginning to wonder if some of you even read the "Happy Paper"
With their extensive death penalty coverage, Black Lives Matter and Orlando shooting stories taking up the front pages recently, it doesn't seem so happy.

outlaw 08-04-2016 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by goodtimesintv (Post 1265959)
I have agreed all along, in the other threads that discussed this seediness they inject, that we need a newspaper with some substance and news of our TV community that is not just "The Happy Paper".

Past discussions on this included the fact that, while crime reports are definitely needed, all the seediest mug shuts available in the vicinity do not have to fill the front page with the creeps, which overshadows articles about normal, decent Villagers doing all kinds of good for the community, the needy, and each other.

Gerry has it right: it's like "national enquirer for seniors".

:ohdear:
Maybe you should talk to the "Happy Paper" editor and see if a little more realism can be inserted into the DS. If the DS was more balanced and realistic, maybe people would not need to read the online paper.

kaseydog 08-04-2016 07:25 AM
I called the "be happy" paper reporter" who wrote the article about the insurance change in the tv health. Asked when when he would write article about patients established at tvh & now having to try to find new doctors because of insurance conflicts & loss of benefits.
He refused to write article covering the other side of tv health decision & hung up on me.

outlaw 08-04-2016 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by circletrack (Post 1266054)
Beginning to wonder if some of you even read the "Happy Paper"
With their extensive death penalty coverage, Black Lives Matter and Orlando shooting stories taking up the front pages recently, it doesn't seem so happy.
Yes. All OUTSIDE the bubble. Don't you get it?

graciegirl 08-04-2016 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by blicata (Post 1266057)
I called the "be happy" paper reporter" who wrote the article about the insurance change in the tv health. Asked when when he would write article about patients established at tvh & now having to try to find new doctors because of insurance conflicts & loss of benefits.
He refused to write article covering the other side of tv health decision & hung up on me.


I haven't ever called the paper and been hung up on. In fact I can't recall ever being hung up on by any business.

ColdNoMore 08-04-2016 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by outlaw (Post 1266059)
Yes. All OUTSIDE the bubble. Don't you get it?
:thumbup:


Needing to point out the obvious...is but one symptom of the problem. :oops:

graciegirl 08-04-2016 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by outlaw (Post 1266059)
Yes. All OUTSIDE the bubble. Don't you get it?
I think world and National issues are very unhappy right now and are of interest to many.

Does anyone else notice kind of a barrage of taunts and negativism from a certain group? Having been called a bully I am reluctant to say more than that. What makes one group more valid than another group?

Heck I don't care. What is wrong with certain people that they are only happy saying ugly things? I think that most of us are pretty savvy folks and we don't see the glass half empty. I think we are being bullied for being positive.

And I do agree with the OP in that here has been a huge shift in Journalism lately over at the online news.

I will soon read posts about my unrealistic enjoyment of all things here and I will wonder to myself what is the motive behind all of this negativity.

Miles42 08-04-2016 08:18 AM
I am a resident, I do not find it to be a rag. It just reports the news. None of is a lie that I see so far.

Taltarzac725 08-04-2016 08:18 AM
There are many sources for information about the Villages and I like seeing the good, the bad and the ugly.

This is a very large area with a population of well over 150,000 so there are going to be more problems as it grows even bigger.

Not sure how they got that number but it does show up in research.

I even look at Topix.com once in a while and that usually is less mature than what you might find written on a Junior High Bathroom wall probably written by someone with the emotional sensitivity of a backward eight year old.

Taltarzac725 08-04-2016 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1266091)
I don't "blindly follow the developer's interests." I just like it here. I am also a capitalist and I like when private enterprise does a good job. The developer's family all might be nasty people and greedy as hell, I don't know them and I doubt you do either.

I am more than satisfied with my life here.
Actually some of them are probably quite nice.

dewilson58 08-04-2016 08:28 AM
Oh well.

gerryann 08-04-2016 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Barefoot (Post 1265971)
I don't understand why anyone would be upset about a free online newspaper. :confused:
I believe you have to subscribe to receive it. If you joined by accident, it's very easy to cancel your subscription.
I don't believe anyone is "upset" over it. Just voicing an opinion.

Barefoot 08-04-2016 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Barefoot (Post 1265971)
I don't understand why anyone would be upset about a FREE online newspaper. :confused:
I believe you have to subscribe to receive it. If you joined by accident, it's very easy to cancel your subscription.
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Originally Posted by goodtimesintv (Post 1265972)
Wrong. The thing is free, online. No need to pay money for it.
That's what I said, the online newspaper is FREE!!!!
If you want the newspaper to automatically appear every morning in your email basket,
you can subscribe to this FREE online newspaper.
If you wish to stop receiving it daily, you can cancel your subscription to this FREE online newspaper.

gerryann 08-04-2016 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Miles42 (Post 1266087)
I am a resident, I do not find it to be a rag. It just reports the news. None of is a lie that I see so far.
Has nothing to do with WHAT they report, but the WAY they report. Misspelling, sensationalize stories. It's just not done in a professional manner. They need to at the least take a journalism class. There is no getting around the fact that they are a "rag". People will continue to read it, just like people keep buying National Inquirer. People eat this junk up......go figure.

RickeyD 08-04-2016 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1266091)
I don't "blindly follow the developer's interests." I just like it here. I am also a capitalist and I like when private enterprise does a good job. The developer's family all might be nasty people and greedy as hell, I don't know them and I doubt you do either.

I am more than satisfied with my life here.


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