{"id":2250,"date":"2007-09-04T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/the-trib\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T18:10:10","slug":"the-trib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/the-trib\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trib"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even in this digital age, I still like newspapers. I grew up with one of the best: The Washington Post. In the evening, we read the Alexandria Gazette, a decent local rag. In those days, DC had another evening paper, too: The Evening Star. My first Letter to the Editor was published in my high school’s daily newspaper.<\/p>\n

For all the grief I give my friends at the Albuquerque Journal, I start each day with it. Granted, it has an awful ratio of news to ads (what nerds call the “signal to noise ratio”). And, too often, when I follow a story to the Web, I find the Journal has truncated it without any notice. (I know, that’s what editors do, but it still shocks me.) <\/p>\n

We both wanted very much to like the Tribune. As with the Journal, there were people at the Trib we like. (And some I despise, like Jeffrey Granger.) But the Trib always seemed even less substantial than the Journal, hardly worth waiting for or occupying an evening with. On the other hand, the Trib had a better website than the Journal, which still doesn’t seem to “get it.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps, Rupert Murdoch (I bet he got beat up a lot on the playground) will buy the Trib and rename it the Evening Conservative. (“Twilight of the Conservatives” has a nice ring to it.) Stranger things have happened, like Reverend Moon buying the Washington Times, another bastion of deep thinkers.<\/p>\n

So, though I didn’t subscribe, I’ll miss the Tribune and Albuquerque will lose something important if it passes. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even in this digital age, I still like newspapers. I grew up with one of the best: The Washington Post. In the evening, we read the Alexandria Gazette, a decent local rag. In those days, DC had another evening paper, too: The Evening Star. My first Letter to the Editor was published in my high … Continue reading The Trib<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}