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Belle

Not only is your work good, it is always helpful too. Love it. 
 

posted by Justi on November 18, 2004 at 10:03 AM | link to this | reply

Deemer

I just signed into to see this. It may surprise you but at this moment I have no idea what my next post will contain. And now I know I must not disappoint you. The pressure!

posted by beachbelle on November 18, 2004 at 9:54 AM | link to this | reply

Okay, okay... it's been 21 hours... are you (and Klara) EVER going to write a new post?  I, for one am waiting... love your stuff.

posted by cmoe on November 18, 2004 at 9:48 AM | link to this | reply

Wiley, why is it so? I'll tell you. Some people put having a personal soap

box above providing a service. Simple as that.

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 9:12 PM | link to this | reply

Tremacc

I read them all too - all the main papers. I am the shop's best customer. I can't bring myself to read the local papers too often. They are so bad. If you write a polite letter they ignore you so if they won't listen to readers, I won't support them. They were not any better when I actually wrote for the paper a century or so ago.

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 9:11 PM | link to this | reply

Oh well. I read them all, anything that I can get my hands on...

posted by Tremac on November 17, 2004 at 8:48 PM | link to this | reply

Beachbelle

I seldom buy our local paper because there is very little content for the price.

Their main writer is a minister, always with a lecture about his version of God or telling us how to live.

Now why the heck would a small newspaper employ that kind of stuff?

Another column went on for weeks written by a retired doctor writing his memoires, but his real life story of hypnotizing his patients would have been far more interesting. After reading his column I stopped putting my money out for that paper.

posted by WileyJohn on November 17, 2004 at 8:39 PM | link to this | reply

Sometimes that is because they have not been offered an alternative Klara

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 6:23 PM | link to this | reply

Most publications survive on the readerships, Beach. Sad but true.

If they don't give the public what they want, the public stops buying.

posted by KlaraRoberts on November 17, 2004 at 6:13 PM | link to this | reply

QA, perhaps it's because people don't think

and it never occurs to them that by accepting crap they are being played for a fool

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 6:02 PM | link to this | reply

bb,

It's a sad fact that they will print whatever sells the most papers, crap or not. It's the people who clamor for this crap I have more of a problem with than the writers who provide it. But you're right--who needs to see the weeping family??--yet just like rubberneckers at a car crash, unfortunately--many human beings think they need to see this stuff.

posted by Julia. on November 17, 2004 at 5:57 PM | link to this | reply

KR. Because the public buys crap is that reason enough to produce it?

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 5:56 PM | link to this | reply

Perhaps it is best never to be exposed to quality

because then anything else is torture ever after

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 5:53 PM | link to this | reply

Klara, it is not so much the quality of writing as selection of content

Yeah I know my other half says I have to remember that they have the mentality of what they are - a local paper. I have been corrupted I guess

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 5:52 PM | link to this | reply

I think it might be because the general public is not that discriminatory

in their tastes, Beach. They don't readily recognize good writing, so possibly can't recognize bad either.

posted by KlaraRoberts on November 17, 2004 at 5:46 PM | link to this | reply

Sassy

Some papers I don't want to see suffer....the ones I write for ...luckily not the worst ones

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 5:30 PM | link to this | reply

People thrive on dirt

It is unfortunate, but true. It makes them feel better about themselves perhaps or they just have that need to know that other people are just like them. I am not really sure which it is. What you have written makes alot of sense, but paper sales are definately not suffering any.

posted by sassyass_64 on November 17, 2004 at 5:22 PM | link to this | reply

Canine, I read a lot there too - the ones I can't get here. I prefer to

sit and read the paper on real newsprint

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 4:59 PM | link to this | reply

Don't need to pay for the ones that I like

I read 'em online.

posted by canine277 on November 17, 2004 at 2:01 PM | link to this | reply

Actually for professional needs I read loads of papers .. only the local

one is once a week. In fact no one buys more "quality" papers from the local shop than me.

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 1:54 PM | link to this | reply

BB

I only read the Sunday paper, and don't do that every week.

posted by canine277 on November 17, 2004 at 1:50 PM | link to this | reply

A lot of people are not buying any more. I do only once a week

posted by beachbelle on November 17, 2004 at 1:39 PM | link to this | reply

beachbelle, So why do we all buy them?

posted by Lucifero on November 17, 2004 at 1:33 PM | link to this | reply

it is sad -

and twisted ~

posted by MariVye on November 17, 2004 at 1:03 PM | link to this | reply

it is very sad indeed.........

 

posted by _Symphony_ on November 17, 2004 at 12:58 PM | link to this | reply