[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Kenswing

For $84 a year it suits its purpose. I subscribe more for information about The Villages and recreational activities than for actual news. You can get news anywhere.

You can also get information about the Villages and recreational activities for FREE - oddly enough, on the Villages Daily News website.

If you're paying $84/year for something you can get for free, well...I'll just say that's not my first choice as to how I'd waste $84.

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

The developer owns it and uses it as a sales tool.

If I was a serious journalist why in the world would I want to work there?

Re: serious journalist.
The path to success and a reputation for many,"serious journalists," is to work for spit and to go into places that sane, normal people dare not go. My dad worked for CBS on a news crew. I met Walter Cronkite. He rose to fame in WWII. Aside he was one of the few at a company picnic who went out of his way to make this at that time kid feel welcome.

As far as the developer owns it. It is shocking to me how much of our,"news," is owned by Disney. In the 1960's the major news was owned by about 50 different companies. Today it is FIVE.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Ben Franklin

I stopped delivery after the first year we were here. What I saw was an advertising paper, coupled with one sided political messaging.

As opposed to "real" newspapers, like the NYT and the WaPo...

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

You can also get information about the Villages and recreational activities for FREE - oddly enough, on the Villages Daily News website.

If you're paying $84/year for something you can get for free, well...I'll just say that's not my first choice as to how I'd waste $84.

Same as paying for books online when they are available at a Library right?

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Same as paying for books online when they are available at a Library right?

You know you can borrow e-books from the library - you don't have to GO to them at all. I've downloaded books from the public library when there were some I wanted to read.

But I have google play rewards, and I use the rewards to buy my books. So I never pay for books out of pocket anyway. Same thing with Amazon - I earn points from survey companies, and use the points to get Amazon credit. I never actually pay out of pocket for anything I get on Amazon.

[bebemary]

Always a Villages promo rag, The Daily Sun cratered years ago to only slightly news but mostly promote and protect the developer. Simply put, it’s primary function is to sell new homes. OK, find a newspaper today that presents real objective news content; there are very few. Good journalism mostly died years ago. Sad, but true.

[jimkerr]

I would expect this paper to promote TV. I subscribe because it has a lot of really good info about what’s going on in TV. Just look at the name of the paper!

For other news, there are a zillion other sources out there.

[Girlcopper]

Originally Posted by Reasons

We have a newspaper that thousands read faithful daily. Yet it is not as informative or professional as it could be. Most articles leave out valuable information such as today's article about places to go raft riding. They mention 3 places. It would be nice if they told us how far they were from here. They also just copy what other people write whether it is right or wrong. An example Sports Stanley cup finials " Canadiens Upset in overtime". Anyone who glanced at that would assume the Lightning won. No Montreal won that game.
We have a good paper. I would just like it to give more facts and become more accurate. Which I believe would make it better.

Its a local Village gossip paper. If you want facts, get the Orlando or Ocala paper

[mydavid]

Originally Posted by Reasons

We have a newspaper that thousands read faithful daily. Yet it is not as informative or professional as it could be. Most articles leave out valuable information such as today's article about places to go raft riding. They mention 3 places. It would be nice if they told us how far they were from here. They also just copy what other people write whether it is right or wrong. An example Sports Stanley cup finials " Canadiens Upset in overtime". Anyone who glanced at that would assume the Lightning won. No Montreal won that game.
We have a good paper. I would just like it to give more facts and become more accurate. Which I believe would make it better.

Dropped them a year ago, not a loss.

[sallyg]

It is a Villages product. Unfortunately some folks might actually think it is a newspaper. It is not.

[rlcooper70]

Not true about the cost .... negotiating with any paper results in a cost of $1 per month for the online version. Try it

[tjhlms]

I am a relatively new subscriber and I see that almost all the hard news comes from Associated Press(AP) sources/writers so you get the liberal bias. They need to expand their sources.

[bonrich]

No editorial page, letters to the editor, readers forum, to name a few features not seen.

[rsgolfer]

It’s the developers tool for telling us that increasing residential property taxes is great for expansion and the economy, but increasing impact fees (where these costs should be) is horrible for the economy and will cost people their jobs.
It’s offensive to me as they must think we are idiots.

[Kenswing]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

You can also get information about the Villages and recreational activities for FREE - oddly enough, on the Villages Daily News website.

If you're paying $84/year for something you can get for free, well...I'll just say that's not my first choice as to how I'd waste $84.

Don't worry, that $84 isn't going to put me on the soup line. Heck, we saved $400 at Almost Perfect Furniture with the 20% coupon that was printed in TDS. That alone will cover my subscription costs for a few years. lol