When was the last time you bought a newspaper?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. I used to subscribe to two dailies: Chicago Trib and (Chicago) Daily Herald

Dropped the Herald first because it was getting 1) more conservative but in a spineless, kowtowing to an aging, cranky, and too-much-time-on-their-hands-think-I'll-complain-about-bias readership; 2) because the level of journalism and general writing skill had always been 3rd class; and 3) because they stopped delivering it to the doorstep-- the one thing they had going for them over the real papers (Trib and sun-Times). Oh, and Jack Mabley died.

Cut the Trib back to Wed-Fri-Sun, which is about all I have time to read these days. Say what you will about the Trib's editorials but the reporting has always been top-notch. I will, however, drop it like like a bad transmission if Murdoch sinks his claws into it.