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    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to DARYL STOUT on Wed Dec 15 06:45:06 2021
    Daryl wrote --

    1964 I got smart and got an afternoon route. And that one was right on my way home.

    That afternoon paper went out of business long ago.

    Yes it did. Like the two papers here, they merged.
    The Telegraph Gazette in Colorado Springs is long gone.
    We used to have the morning Advertiser and the afternoon Dispatch. Both owned by the same company, used the same press, etc. Only the reporters
    were different.
    After the merger it became The Herald-Dispatch and quickly went downhill
    with their standards. With no competition they just cover (or not) whatever they want.
    The local rag is worthless.
    And a few years ago they went from seven to four columns, and stopped printing a Monday edition.
    I read it online.

    instead of landing on the porch it sailed through a open window into their living room! I could never do that again if I tried.

    Somebody's meal just got ruined. :P

    I imagine they wondered who brought the paper in that day. :)
    On my cross-country tour in '19 I walked that route again, first time in
    over 50 years and remarkably little changed.
    The old high school is now a parking lot, but the house I picked up the papers is still there.
    Passing by the house with that open window I thought of that day.

    I'm the same way...although I saw a COVID-19 meme, where the guy doing his shopping at Wal-Mart was dressed like he was going into a HazMat Zone.

    Ssh, don't give _those_ people any ideas...
    Joe
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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to DARYL STOUT on Thu Dec 16 06:23:20 2021
    Daryl wrote --

    After the merger it became The Herald-Dispatch and quickly went downhill with their standards. With no competition they just cover (or not) whatever they want.

    Sounds like the Wal-Mart of periodicals. They put everyone else out of business, then they charge whatever they want, and have whatever they want.

    Worse than than that.
    The two papers competed now with one the "reporters" merely sit around waiting for the stories to come to them.
    Plus they don't even an office in town, they moved to another town.
    Joe
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