Buy A Newspaper - Please

Blogs are nice, Online news is good, TV news is poor, and radio is fair to bad except NPR, the BBC, and few tiny exceptions, so to round it out there is the classroom, books, and newspapers.

Newspapers are in decline. This is bad. We need newspapers and I would gladly trade my semi-selfish interests in blogging for a decent newspaper especially one that could fail due to lack of interest or readership and the recession on its heals.

The news is at a premium in this country. We need more of it, not less of it. So support your local paper. We need that information that only the local papers can give us.

McClatchy: Finally, besieged newspapers have a defender in Congress

...without newspapers serving as watchdogs no one would track local school boards, uncover scandals like Watergate or the Walter Reed Medical Center or give a voice to the vulnerable and mistreated.