Subj : Re: newspaper was: moving or To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Feb 22 2020 22:01:56 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 17-Feb-2020 08:37 <=- BM>> Yes, I had noticed the local paper was also doing the "for additional BM>> information go to ". IMO one thing to offer for keeping BM>> an important story up-to-date, another to sometimes what seemed like BM>> scissoring a news story to make room for an ad. NB>> Exactly.... and it used to be that it just would be continued on a NB>> later page of the paper.... but then, "continued on [website]"... As NB>> you say, if it was to keep up with breaking news, that could be one NB>> thing... but for that, one usually is listening to the radio or NB>> watching TV news anyway.... The newspaper could go into more depth NB>> than the over the air, at least it used to.... BM> Yes, for breaking news the radio and TV would probably be a better BM> source than the newspaper's website, though it seems for the past BM> several years radio in general is coming in a distant second with BM> stations becoming automated and syndicated. Pretty much no one in the BM> studio much less to send out to check things out. Depends on the station.... The NPR/PBS stations still have live reporters in and out of the station.... and the local stations feed into the national news... I regularly hear reports from North Country Public Radio (WSLU and their affiliate stations) on the national news, and every so often even some from WXXI-AM here.... If I wished, I could be getting all sorts of breaking local, regional and national news around the clock by listening to the AM news station instead of the FM classical music station.... :) BM>>> I 'stare at the screen all day' but some functions are easier for me BM>>> to read from paper. NB>>> I'd much rather have paper copy to read.... Doing my email and NB>>> messages on the computer is plenty enough... ;) BM>> I'd hate to have to print out e-mail!! NB>> Yes that would be way too much, for sure....!! But email doesn't NB>> take the place of a nice newsy written letter from a friend.... ;) BM> Probably - I don't know. No one I know to do a written BM> correspondence, it's all e-mail and/or phone. Admittedly, it's a lot rarer now.... I do have one friend that sends a real letter now and then... even she sometimes does it in email now, though... ;) ttyl neb .... It's always darkest before you step on the cat. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .