Newspapers

We've been hearing for some time that print newspapers are becoming extinct. I grew up reading and enjoying the Seattle Times. When I moved to Tucson, I subscribed to the morning paper, the Arizona Daily Star, but soon became annoyed because it wasn't delivered to me by the time I left for work in the morning. So I switched to the evening Tucson Citizen, so that I could have "fresher" news when I got home from work. In recent years, especially when I was working, I never seemed to find time to read the paper, except on Sundays, but it's still nice to have a paper you can sit down & read when you want to. Mr. Beisbolfan is a great newspaper reader. On vacations, we enjoy the Rocky Mountain News while we're in Colorado, and the Times Picayune in New Orleans.

But now newspaper obsolescence has really hit home. The Tucson Citizen has announced that they will cease publication on March 21, unless they find a buyer (highly unlikely). In the same sad boat are the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the Rocky Mountain News. The fact that we'd been told this day was coming doesn't make it any easier to take. I know I'm part of the problem, because I'm more likely to get my news from the Internet than any other source, but still, I want to have it both ways.