Here's why I dropped my online subscription: the coprolite George Will, unhinged shitweasel Hugh Hewitt, fascist Marc Thiessen, and a good number more shitheads that I didn't want to feel like I was supporting. Once Gene got canceled, any inertia keeping me on the rolls was overcome. Can't say that I regret the decision.
Here's why I dropped my online subscription: the coprolite George Will, unhinged shitweasel Hugh Hewitt, fascist Marc Thiessen, and a good number more shitheads that I didn't want to feel like I was supporting. Once Gene got canceled, any inertia keeping me on the rolls was overcome. Can't say that I regret the decision.
Like it's possible to avoid them and their drivel. Also, I think you are being quite generous with the word "thinking." Hewitt, for example, has apparently one thought, to wit "Nuh-uhhh!"
Precisely. The WaPo (and to a lesser extent The NY Times) have decided that тАЬfair and balancedтАЭ means employing hard-right editorial page writers who refused to think for themselves, choosing to toe the party (i.e, Trump) line. (An exception at NYT is Bret Stephens, who I almost never agree with, but who presents generally thoughtful libertarian-leaning articles that give me insight to another way of thinking.) Why would any self-respecting news service hire Hugh Hewitt and Marc Thiessen? Gawd! (At least with George Will once a year you get a good baseball story.) I happen to live in an area of Sacramento County where I can get daily (except Saturday) delivery of The NYT, and willingly pay the about $4.50 a day that subscribers are charged. But I donтАЩt know if I would paper-subscribe to WaPo anymore. The about $100/year I am still willing to shell out, but each Hewitt or Thiessen or Will or etc. I read makes me rethink renewal in December.
Here's why I dropped my online subscription: the coprolite George Will, unhinged shitweasel Hugh Hewitt, fascist Marc Thiessen, and a good number more shitheads that I didn't want to feel like I was supporting. Once Gene got canceled, any inertia keeping me on the rolls was overcome. Can't say that I regret the decision.
Don't you want to know what the 'other side' is thinking and why?
Like it's possible to avoid them and their drivel. Also, I think you are being quite generous with the word "thinking." Hewitt, for example, has apparently one thought, to wit "Nuh-uhhh!"
Mikey, "coprolite" may be the best characterization of George Will that I have ever read. Thank you for making my day.
Coprolite is my new favorite nickname for George Will.
Precisely. The WaPo (and to a lesser extent The NY Times) have decided that тАЬfair and balancedтАЭ means employing hard-right editorial page writers who refused to think for themselves, choosing to toe the party (i.e, Trump) line. (An exception at NYT is Bret Stephens, who I almost never agree with, but who presents generally thoughtful libertarian-leaning articles that give me insight to another way of thinking.) Why would any self-respecting news service hire Hugh Hewitt and Marc Thiessen? Gawd! (At least with George Will once a year you get a good baseball story.) I happen to live in an area of Sacramento County where I can get daily (except Saturday) delivery of The NYT, and willingly pay the about $4.50 a day that subscribers are charged. But I donтАЩt know if I would paper-subscribe to WaPo anymore. The about $100/year I am still willing to shell out, but each Hewitt or Thiessen or Will or etc. I read makes me rethink renewal in December.