I used to read the paper every single day. I'd start with sports, then go to the business section. then the op-eds. If something caught my eye I might read the front page. I used to love starting my day reading the Detroit Free Press.
I would read the occassional digs towards conservatives and I'd let them pass. They would keep coming with these cheap shots about conservatives in general. Then they would tell me things about how evil or incompetent Reagan was or Bush or John Engler (former Governor of Michigan) and I would just take it.
I switched to the Detroit News somewhere along the way, they were supposed to be the conservative
newspaper. They were conservative in their op-eds but that's about it, the rest of the paper was definitely left of center. They were still getting all of their stories from the AP or from other liberal papers. They were better than the Free Press but they too would take these cheap shots at
conservatives at large. You get them in odd places, a sports writer would take a shot a Bush. Or you'd read an article about home improvement and you'd hear a complaint about the Iraq war.
Eventually, I just had enough. I just couldn't take one more lame comment from some self-righteous windbag.
Why was I paying these people to continually offend me and tell how everything that I believed in was idiotic or I was somehow evil.
I stopped getting newspapers about 6-7 years ago. I miss the sports section a little bit, but that's about it. I couldn't be happier.
One added bonus, I don't have to take all of those newspaper to the recycling center.
I would read the occassional digs towards conservatives and I'd let them pass. They would keep coming with these cheap shots about conservatives in general. Then they would tell me things about how evil or incompetent Reagan was or Bush or John Engler (former Governor of Michigan) and I would just take it.
I switched to the Detroit News somewhere along the way, they were supposed to be the conservative
newspaper. They were conservative in their op-eds but that's about it, the rest of the paper was definitely left of center. They were still getting all of their stories from the AP or from other liberal papers. They were better than the Free Press but they too would take these cheap shots at
conservatives at large. You get them in odd places, a sports writer would take a shot a Bush. Or you'd read an article about home improvement and you'd hear a complaint about the Iraq war.
Eventually, I just had enough. I just couldn't take one more lame comment from some self-righteous windbag.
Why was I paying these people to continually offend me and tell how everything that I believed in was idiotic or I was somehow evil.
I stopped getting newspapers about 6-7 years ago. I miss the sports section a little bit, but that's about it. I couldn't be happier.
One added bonus, I don't have to take all of those newspaper to the recycling center.
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