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My comment about new beat writer and your replies has me wondering:

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We get the weekly "Fayette Falcon" in our county in Tennessee. We get the print edition and the online.
All other news I read is online. Web, X, and social media including SPS et al.

As an aside, there are entire genres of magic, mentalism, and visual sight gags that are dying out because newspapers are basically an anachronism now. And yet, late last year a young man in the UK started a small industry publication -- on newsprint as an 8-10 page newspaper! -- that is quietly attracting attention in our little world. It's intentionally retro, analog, tangible --like a very thin section from a regular paper from our youth. But it's cool to get it in the mail all the way from England.
 
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We've not had a printed newspaper for years - maybe 10. As far as I know, there's not a printed paper in any of the state's larger cites. There's the statewide al.com but it requires a fairly expensive subscription to read many articles and isn't very good so I don't subscribe. So, it's other online sources and television.
 
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dogmatic001 said:
I'm a big fan of the WSJ and I like the way they do their job. Somehow that publication has not been a regular part of my consciousness but I need to get it more regularly included. I've been an online subscriber before and may look at doing a digital subscription again.

I agree the sussing process is exhausting and its cause is concerning. Nevermind the slant I can see, what about the slant that leaves key stories unreported altogether? That's what worries me about the NYT. Recently they had a story on bison removal in Montana - cattlemen were against having bison next to their cattle - it was a lengthy story but nowhere in it did the NYT say why cattlemen oppose bison: because of the diseases bison carry that are mild to bison but destructive to cattle. I happened to know that - but what about all the other stories that obscure things I don't happen to know?

I think I will look at a WSJ subscription again.
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I’m left of center but like the WSJ, sans its editorial page. I‘ve always thought they view their core mission as writing for investors (and thus play it pretty straight, because investors care first and foremost about accurate information).

It’s kind of pricy, though, for similar reasons.
 
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Chickamauga said:
I’m left of center but like the WSJ, sans its editorial page. I‘ve always thought they view their core mission as writing for investors (and thus play it pretty straight, because investors care first and foremost about accurate information).

It’s kind of pricy, though, for similar reasons.
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I think you’re right … writing for investors is probably what makes them steer more clear of spinning anything. And I’m center-right, but don’t read their editorials either. If I want to get all hopped up and pissed off about politics, I’ll go get on Twitter.

You‘re also right about the price, but I learned that you have to play the same game with them that everybody else is doing: they have really low introductory rates (I think right now I paid something like $89 for 1 year of it, and you also get access to Barron’s, MarketWatch and 1-2 other invest-y newsletters). Then, after a year it jumps to something ridiculously high, I go and cancel it, and then they come crawling back to offer another “introductory“ rate.
 
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jxndawg said:
I think you’re right … writing for investors is probably what makes them steer more clear of spinning anything. And I’m center-right, but don’t read their editorials either. If I want to get all hopped up and pissed off about politics, I’ll go get on Twitter.

You‘re also right about the price, but I learned that you have to play the same game with them that everybody else is doing: they have really low introductory rates (I think right now I paid something like $89 for 1 year of it, and you also get access to Barron’s, MarketWatch and 1-2 other invest-y newsletters). Then, after a year it jumps to something ridiculously high, I go and cancel it, and then they come crawling back to offer another “introductory“ rate.
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i truly hate the way companies in the modern era will bend over backwards to acquire a new customer, while setting up a system that screws an existing customer as quickly as possible.
 
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Chickamauga said:
I’m left of center but like the WSJ, sans its editorial page. I‘ve always thought they view their core mission as writing for investors (and thus play it pretty straight, because investors care first and foremost about accurate information).

It’s kind of pricy, though, for similar reasons.
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If you subscribe to the WSJ and want to get it cheaper just try to cancel it. They gave me a 2/3rds price cut when I did. They bumped it back after a year, and then did the same thing when I immediately tried to cancel it again. I'm paying $13 a month.
 
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The Week in print. Editorial section probably leans left but it aggregates coverage from different sources in presenting major stories. Seems to do a good job of giving the facts and then showing how stories were covered from different outlets/perspectives.
 
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When I lived in Jackson, many moons ago, I read the local papers daily. Moved to Atlanta area in 83 and started taking the afternoon version of the paper which was more of a center right as opposed to the morning paper which was left. Kept it going after they
merged but slowly they drifted farther left. After they merged the "conservative" columnist had a great line the year the paper decided not to do an endorsement for Governor. "I am sorry the paper did not endorse a candidate for Governor. Now I don't know who to NOT vote for". I still get the paper on-line but have been reading it long enough to know how to filter out the BS and get deeper into the articles for the actual facts. Mostly though for the comics. Added WSJ (on-line) around Covid time and doubt I will ever be without it. Plus a local weekly (small GA Mountain paper)
 
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If you guys haven’t tried Ground News give it a try. Well worth a look if you truly want all the news and not just an echo chamber. No issues if you do, by the way, that’s how the human brain works.

Ground News has a “blindspot” feature where you can see the stories that the left or the right just completely ignores like it didn’t happen. It’s amazing to see the worlds that are functionally nonexistent for 50% of the country at any given time.
 
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