I grew up on the LAT and L.A. Herald-Examiner. Jack Smith was the only thing worth reading in the LAT. Of course the truly witless and useless LAT remained while the Her-Ex went out of business in the 80s – a great paper, sharp, witty and balanced. Now in NY I have on rare occasions bought the NYT print version but subscribe to no papers or newsmagazines of any sort – they are all an insult to the intelligence. I refuse to pay for that tripe.
Ditto to the comments about The Economist. It’s become unreadable for its consistent anti-American slant, and the quality of the writing is generally poor.
I don’t know where news is going, but we watch no TV news in our house and for us newspapers cannot die fast enough. We get everything we need online – contrary to the stereotype of babyboomers and older folks who supposedly are wedded to their TVs and newspapers. NOT so.
As for being in a social set where having read the 2 or 3 top pieces in the Sunday NYT is the basis on which you are judged and accepted – pity doesn’t begin to describe my reaction towards people like that.
