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Union-Tribune Circulation Drops 9.53 points
Newspapers are in terminal decline. Why condemn all those trees and spend all that energy on printing and distribution when they can be put online and updated instantly? The Huffington Post is one of the leaders in the way it's heading. I get headlines online then read the weekly news mags for the in-depth story. I don't have time to read a daily newspaper. The news content in the Tribune is so minimal anyway. It is mostly ads. Unfortunately, people expect online news to be free, so I don't know how we'll pay the news gatherers. Research, fact checking, and editing are also suffering. We could end up with "news" from bloggers as the only media. They will tell us what is happening outside of their window, where they went for dinner, and how they dislike immigrants. Bloggers are the worst thing that happened to the information age. Just because you can fill the Internet with your self-indulgent rambling doesn't mean you should. Buy a diary and write it in that so your relations can throw it out with the rest of your trash when you die.— April 27, 2009 5:25 p.m.
Cycle Therapy
I was in Little Italy with my wife when one of these rides crossed India at A Street. Although it was dark, many riders didn't have lights. Although the traffic lights were red, they continued to pour through the intersection against traffic. Many rode on the sidewalk and we had to take shelter behind a pole to avoid being hit. Later, we say the same group riding along India Street. The riders were shouting at a car driver caught in the middle of the ride and were thumping on the roof of the car as they passed. This is not a fun, family occasion, but anti-social behavior caused by a mob that delights in bullying its way around town and disrupting the lives of residents. The route they take often crosses and re-crosses itself until the have caused considerable disruption. They are noisy, unruly, dangerous, and frightening crowd that tie up police time and should be stopped.— March 29, 2009 10:34 a.m.
ENGLISH???
"Another problem is computers. There is the computer speak of the nerds. This is innocuous because most of these people are pretty darn smart (without much common sense)." Oh, you are such an expert on common sense! You are right. If I had any common sense, I wouldn't waste it trying to find any fact, structure, or reasoned argument in this ramble-fest.— March 26, 2009 9:37 p.m.
Jim and the Volcano
I have learned to avoid all restaurants described as a "local institution". The chefs at such places have as much flare and originality as a machine shop worker turning out engine castings. "Local institutions" build up a dedicated clientele of diners hooked on "value for money" and murky menus of "local favorites" that never change.— February 8, 2009 8:39 a.m.
Downtown living
Like most bloggers, this is long on opinion and short on knowledge. What you deem to be 'common sense' is actually contrary to fact and your article is just a list of questions about things you do not know. In the old days of professional journalism somebody whould do something called research and write an article that contained something called facts. Now, we put up with the rambling of amateurs with keyboards and pass it off as news.— January 31, 2009 8:02 a.m.