if you're turning off msm, a suggestion. [View all]

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subscribe to your local paper instead. support your closest npr station.

lordy do i miss the days when the chgo tribune kept it’s opinion out of the news, and had bureaus all over the world. they had some awesome reporters. there was a show on the local npr station, wbez, ‘worldview w sandra gair’. it was so good, and she regularly had the big trib writers on. such great convos. (she had the best guests, in general. her son was the producer of nightline.)
about the time she passed, the trib started closing bureaus and slanting the news. they also got rid of nicole hollander’s sylvia comic strip. that was the last straw. so i switched to the sun times.

but it’s been ages since i got a paper. the s-t is now a non-profit, part of wbez’s corp, i believe. i signed up for a monthly donation yesterday. i’ll toss a few bucks to wbez, too, as i have many, many, many times. i used to listen all day, now it’s mostly in the car. but i check their website pretty often for local stories.

what i’m trying to say is- msm has been captured. we all know we need lefty sources. but we also badly need local papers, no matter the slant. and they’re going under at a high rate of speed. so unless your local paper is a total rw rag, consider subscribing. it they lean the wrong way, write ltte’s. push them.

but if we want better media, those of us who can afford it, must support it.