I’ve seen some odd pictures used to illustrate news stories in my time but this one from Google News takes the cake:
I give up. What does Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia have to do with water quality in Flint, Michigan?
‘Splain Me, Please
October 6, 2015
Print media has gone down the garbage shoot, and is employing a family-friendly “page 3” girl strategy. If they can just keep Gen-X males until the economy recovers.
My local newspaper just increased subscription rates by 20%, which seems steep given that I read less of it. Also annoyed that they stopped providing discounts two years ago for those who pay annually or semi-annually. The subscription price also seems to be getting close to newsstand price, but apparently hardly anybody buys papers off the rack anymore.
I can tell from mentioning newspaper stories to friends that most of my peers have moved-on from paper. I’ll probably reluctantly pay-up, but complain about it every chance I can take.
When I was a kid, we received two dailies, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and I think we also received a couple of weeklies. Those days, of course, are long gone. I’ve never subscribed to a Chicago paper.
Princess Leia was friends with the Ewoks, who were environmentally correct. (Best I can do.)
Steve
Clickbait….
OT: @Dave, you may want to stock up on canned pumpkins — shortage anticipated again.
My wife said exactly the same thing to me this morning.