Originally Posted by Cedwards38 (Post 1172224)

I like to have access to all the news, good and bad. I have choices, thank goodness, and at the bottom of the online newsletter is an "unsubscribe" if I so choose.

Originally Posted by goodtimesintv (Post 1171915)

I understand why we need another newspaper in TV (online), and not just "the happy paper".

But seriously.

Every single time I want to email an interesting article about the things that would attract friends/relatives to coming to experience TV and possibly rent/buy a place, the article I want to send is totally surrounded by the scum of the earth disgusting mug shots, poisonously partisan letters and columns, and sensationalizing NewsMax headlines. This is the case right now with a wonderful account of the Johnny Mathis concert. It it surrounded by utter trash.

The paper has all the trappings of a tabloid rag and I'm embarrassed to send the article links to friends around the country, because of the trash that would seem to characterize TV as something it is not. I've contacted the paper before about this, but they seem to like it this way.

Originally Posted by jane032657 (Post 1172192)

I was writing a column for the online news and will be getting back to it soon. One of the owners is the former Managing Editor of The Daily Sun. She is savvy, smart, in the know of what is going on, goes to a myriad of VCDD and other government like meetings, events, and activities. She covers issues much more in depth than you will find anywhere else and she will give the full story, not just "The Villages" side of the story.

You will find so much more information about what is going on in The Villages and the details behind the issues. And yes you will find a lot of mug shots and details of crime, but this is not The National Enquirer folks, this is what is going on in our community and surrounding us, not made up. Whether you like it or not, these are stories that are in progress, and get the most hits of almost anything or they would not be published. You are reading these articles, or your friends and neighbors are, in the droves.

The Daily Sun serves a purpose for reading with coffee and seeing mostly ads for dinner specials, entertainment, face lifts, body replacements and pain control, Villages homes for sale and financial planners who want to manage your money. There are great stories of wonderful activities going on in The Villages along with statistical data of the community. Nothing wrong with reading both papers and gleaning the good, the bad and the ugly, because like it or not, we have it all here.

I have been involved in many things in The Villages, and I will tell you I no longer have rose colored glasses. I am grateful that the on line news shares many sides of what many see as Utopia, it is not. The Villages is a wonderful place and very special, but real people with real lives and behaviors live here, and when they steal, batter, abuse, drive drunk, and cause a raucous, well that is news too whether it is the neighbors, their kids or visitors. Like Mr Rogers said, It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood but know that scary things are there and talk about it.

Originally Posted by looneycat (Post 1172833)

really?? it comes off as an online enquirer. the format prominently displays constant negativity. mug shots are all over. as another poster states, i am embarassed to share any links to a paper that goes too far...making TV look like a zoo.

Originally Posted by jane032657 (Post 1172863)

If you think it "displays constant negativity" you must be reading it everyday to make a judgement. So I guess you, like all the thousands of others, click on the mug shots to read the story, and are enjoying it or why would you keep reading? Maybe "enquiring" minds want to know...

Originally Posted by jane032657 (Post 1172863)

If you think it "displays constant negativity" you must be reading it everyday to make a judgement. So I guess you, like all the thousands of others, click on the mug shots to read the story, and are enjoying it or why would you keep reading? Maybe "enquiring" minds want to know...

Originally Posted by goodtimesintv (Post 1172882)

You still don't get it. It's not a matter of "clicking on the mug shots" to read more. It's the trash and snide titles that are front and center on the Home page!

I never said the paper shouldn't publish such content as police blotters and realities of villagers that are negative.

I said from the beginning that true "news" articles are smothered with all the crap around them, and the crap articles are front and center on the front page.

See example of the day that stereotypes and feeds the looney and gross caricatures of us online across the country, and even continents. Headlines like this make our community look like a bunch of demented stooges.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...9-56-41-am-jpg

Originally Posted by goodtimesintv (Post 1172882)

You still don't get it. It's not a matter of "clicking on the mug shots" to read more. It's the trash and snide titles that are front and center on the Home page!

I never said the paper shouldn't publish such content as police blotters and realities of villagers that are negative.

I said from the beginning that true "news" articles are smothered with all the crap around them, and the crap articles are front and center on the front page.

See example of the day that stereotypes and feeds the looney and gross caricatures of us online across the country, and even continents.

Headlines like this make our community look like a bunch of demented stooges.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...9-56-41-am-jpg

Originally Posted by goodtimesintv (Post 1172882)

You still don't get it. It's not a matter of "clicking on the mug shots" to read more. It's the trash and snide titles that are front and center on the Home page!

I never said the paper shouldn't publish such content as police blotters and realities of villagers that are negative.

I said from the beginning that true "news" articles are smothered with all the crap around them, and the crap articles are front and center on the front page.

See example of the day that stereotypes and feeds the looney and gross caricatures of us online across the country, and even continents.

Headlines like this make our community look like a bunch of demented stooges.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...9-56-41-am-jpg

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1172963)

Is that your golf cart? Now I understand.

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1172963)

Is that your golf cart? Now I understand.

Originally Posted by looneycat (Post 1172833)

really?? it comes off as an online enquirer. the format prominently displays constant negativity. mug shots are all over. as another poster states, i am embarassed to share any links to a paper that goes too far...making TV look like a zoo.