As the headline suggests, it will be a new era in our home tomorrow when, for a variety of reasons, we stop the home delivery of the Boston Globe. As long as I can remember, there has always been a newspaper delivered to my home, whether it was the evening edition which arrived after supper by the local boy on his bike when I was a child, or the early edition today, delivered by someone in the dark whose noisy engine acts as my alarm clock.
I will truly miss scanning the headlines, catching up on the high school sports teams, cutting out the occasional coupon and especially seeing if I can finish the crossword and sudoku before leaving for work. I'm sure my children won't miss those self-help articles I would clip out for them to read just as my mother had done for me. I'll be reading the news on the internet now which is not as convenient. It'll be harder to find those articles that you caught out of the corner of your eye. Even worse, there is the chance of spilling coffee on the computer. I can, however, e-mail those self-help articles to my children.
Maybe we'll keep the Sunday edition coming, but that crossword puzzle is way too hard.
Where do you get your news?
3 comments:
I enjoyed reading this, though it made me sad. The times, they are a changing.
Our local paper has gotten smaller and smaller. The sunday paper, that used to take most of the day to read, now takes a single cup of coffee. I find I read the paper more on line. Get the news earlier w/less ads. Another tradition falls by the wayside...
I get my news from my mother via email as well! What a coincidence!
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