It may surprise you to find that my personal philosophy expands beyond 1) despising Disney princesses, 2) recycling everything I can, and 3) always considering ways of helping others (because I’m not all hippy).
In addition to those, I also strongly believe in paying for news. It is very easy to get free news on the internet, to the detriment of newspapers subscriptions. I will always say I get the daily paper so that I can easily read the comics. And I do read the comics. Usually first.
But the real reason we subscribe to the paper is that good journalism requires paychecks. I want to live in a community, nation, and world where there are people paid only to discover and report what is going on there. I don’t believe a society can be democratic without free press….that people pay for. I don’t want the government to be in charge of giving us the news and I don’t want to leave it up to volunteer bloggers or Yahoo. I believe supporting NPR (yes, it is pledge week) and buying a newspaper—even when one can get the news for free—is a civic duty that ranks up there with voting.
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I did not mean to write this post quite this way. My original intention was to share this Living Social deal to get the local paper for 50% off. But now you also got a piece of my mind. Yahoo.
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