tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421591.post5236892449726868058..comments2024-01-03T09:44:25.221-06:00Comments on Veritas: "Reading" the NewspaperAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091653573582292028noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421591.post-25413213661743340272020-09-19T06:31:16.049-05:002020-09-19T06:31:16.049-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Stock Homeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15191747027289472265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421591.post-11969040189260049232019-06-25T06:58:12.477-05:002019-06-25T06:58:12.477-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Digital Marketinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05067530943434540895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421591.post-14414195714882823252015-07-25T01:05:42.000-05:002015-07-25T01:05:42.000-05:00Chris,This is a much more subtle way of saying wha...Chris,<br><br>This is a much more subtle way of saying what my mom used to say when I was young: what you put in your mind you will become. <br><br>At the end of the day, we have to be more disciplined with what we read and watch, especially in this new world of intense non-stop "information." Being passive is a formula for becoming goulash made with leftovers nobody ate when it was fresh. <br><br>Yesterday, MJ and I were driving to see grandsons and she is reading the paper and she asks, "did you read the paper?" I said I had and she asks, " what did you think of x." I said, I didn't read the article. When she starts to give me a summary, I interrupted by saying, "I didn't read it because it is of no interest to me,"<br><br>First, let me say, I admit I handled that wrong. But, my point was the article had no redeeming value, was purely prurient, and I intentionally was going to not put that in my head. MJ made a legitimate point she read it not to absorb the content but she was effectively "reading" it as you challenged us above. <br><br>So, I concede the value of your and MJ's point but I still go back to my mom's point. I got enough crap in my head. Don't need more so I mostly read the sports page, comics and obituary.Troynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421591.post-73460014904083571702015-07-27T14:38:47.000-05:002015-07-27T14:38:47.000-05:00What you read is what I find is what most people r...What you read is what I find is what most people read. Hubby reads the sports, I read the comics, we both read the obituaries. I read headlines just to see the scope of the world. I seldom read the opinion page until I see someone who might be making a lot of sense. I think there is a lot of words that are just blather.Jeanne Schmelzernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421591.post-50417336482274350482015-07-27T17:43:28.000-05:002015-07-27T17:43:28.000-05:00We canceled our Argus Leader subscription about 6 ...We canceled our Argus Leader subscription about 6 weeks ago. Had subscribed for over 45 years. Kept getting more expensive and taking less time to read. Haven't missed it yet at all.Doug Austreimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421591.post-7306628992693494352015-07-30T05:50:36.000-05:002015-07-30T05:50:36.000-05:00After decades of agenda-driven reporting, most new...After decades of agenda-driven reporting, most newspapers seem to have abandoned trying to appear "neutral" and "objective" and "unbiased". And perhaps it's just as well, as that approach was mostly mythological. One of the nice things about editing Catholic World Report is that our editorial perspective is very clear: it's Catholic. My take on local papers is that they try, of course, to appeal to the demographics of their area, and then they try to work in some of their editorial perspective, not just on the editorial, but in the weight given to certain pieces. For example, this past year my pastor spent several months chronicling stories in the "Register-Guard" (Eugene, OR) about "gay marriage" or closely related subjects. He found that the paper averaged about two such stories every day (!), with most such stories being in the front ("A") section. Stories about Islamic terrorism, Christians and other being executed in the Middle East, and attacks on religious freedom in the West garnered almost no space at all. Was that surprising? Not really. But it was rather breathtaking how overt and relentless the pattern is when you start breaking down the data.Carl E. Olsonhttp://www.CatholicWorldReport.comnoreply@blogger.com