Subj : Paper route
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Mon Sep 09 2019 07:14:18

  Daryl wrote --

>   Most online papers now require you to subscribe to read a story.

  I hate it when reading a headline news site and click the link for the
story and getting the msg one has to to subscribe to read it.  Why even have
the link?

> What's worse is if you have an ad blocker in your browser, they raise
> cane.

   Some sites will block out half the screen, but one can scroll down a bit
to read the story.  Its just annoying.

>   Yet, there are still a surprising number of people don't have, can't
> get, or don't want, a computer, or internet access. 

  Some people are just Luddites.  
  There were people in the 1040s who never had a radio* and people as late
as the '60s who didn't own/want a tv.  (Now not having a tv today is a sign
of rebellion.  I don't have one any longer and don't want one.  I am happy
with stuff I can get on the net).
  (* Fred Allen once in Allen's Alley was interviewing Titus Moody, the
Yankee farmer, about radio and Moody replied he didn't have a radio, he didn't
take to furniture talking to him).

> The rising costs of postage and printing, combined
> with the decline of subscriptions and ads, has forced many publications
> and newspapers, to go online only, or shut down altogether.

  I actually prefer not having a hard copy to make more trash, clutter
things up, etc.  
  Of course going completely online could cause problems with people being
unable to line their bird cages.  :)
  The only thing our local rag is good for is lining bird cages.  :)
  Joe
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