I must say I have to agree with the others who skim The Sun in the morning, like one of those instant breakfasts, and then wonder why I’m still hungry. I opined on the broader subject and have included a link above.

Thanks

Keep up the good work yall

Cook is serving us tweets and bleeps,
Thinks we’ll follow him like idiot sheep,
If I want a brand I’ll go looking for shoes,
Cut the crap out and give me the truth.

I don’t need Cook to aggregate for me,
Or indulge in glorious pyramidal schemes,
Or turn out reports like eggs over easy,
Put seismic events in blurbs that are measly.

I see the platform–a wooden dais,
Cook in the center smugly seated,
Claiming there is no “bull or bias”
In his borrowed stories oft repeated,

On either side of him the tweet-ups rage,
The entire world gathers and chatters,
The babble is loud and incoherent,
And this to Cook is news that matters!

Zell hides in his dell and pulls the puppets,
He casts the crumbs and asks for crumpets,
Cook’s job is to create a popular product,
With no ingredients in his pockets.

Subscribe to the SUN? What for my friends?
Each AM to read what the twits have twittered?
And experience the void of a shallow page,
Handed by Cook in a transition phase,

I’ll take a bow with this piece of wisdom,
Twittered by the bard straight into my brain,
We are merely players including Cook,
And all the world– a great big stage.

Usha Nellore

Without real, reported stories (I’ll take mine without the passion, please, just hard core facts because all that passion skirts dangerously close to bias to me) that reporters spend time digging up, then where is the news in newspaper or news media if we’re talking different platforms?

Keep cutting resources, keep cutting staff and you won’t have the manpower or ability to dig for those stories anymore. That’s what I fear this new age of journalism is leading us. As someone who still blogs, I depend on newspapers a great deal to tell me what’s going on (beyond blog chatter and screeds and the lively personalities offered in blogs) in the world around me.

Finally, beyond that, I miss the ability of reporters to tell stories about real people, real trends and the oddities and flavor of Maryland in the creative, sometimes poetic, but almost always great writing you used to find every day in the paper. And it’s not because the reporters there aren’t capable of that type of writing anymore, it’s because the “platform” they work for doesn’t really allow for that kind of writing anymore.

I hope every day that The Sun and other papers around the country find a way to make money off all this new technology, but also preserve what is so great about newspapers: being an important watchdog for the community while also offering up great storytelling every day.

Best to all still fighting the good fight.

Until the last few years, I didn’t leave the house in the morning without reading the paper cover-to-cover. Now, the paper sits for days before I pick it up, and when I do, it takes less than five minutes to read.

Although I have continued to subscribe on principle, it’s such a waste of time and money that I question myself every time I open the paper.