All the News that's Fit to Print
I am having a classic dilemma: convenience vs. economy.
I am currently debating about our subscription to the New York Times. Monday through Friday we get the paper delivered to our door. I prefer it to the metro paper, which has slid into very little of substance and certainly now has very little coverage of national and global news. I like reading the front page while I eat my cereal in the morning, I prefer the interesting stories in the nyt, and to be honest, I just like getting a paper every day. I prefer the real thing to the website, and feel like I take more time to read it at some point during the day if it is actually sitting in front of me rather than summoning me from cyberspace.
On the other hand, the paper used to arrive at 6:45 am, but lately it is not even in our door by 7 am. That means that it often misses my breakfast window and I end up reading online. Often times I will arrive home late, after a full day, and just have to toss the paper in the recycling bin after no one has looked at it (husband is an avid online reader who only sometimes takes time for the print version). Before I notice it, we will have several days built up on our coffee table during a busy stretch. The waste of both resources and money drives me a little crazy.
In a time where I feel as though I should be more responsible with all of our resources, I wonder if we shouldn't just cancel our subscription...But then I think that we would become just another example of how people are pulling back and making the economy worse, not because we have to, but because we feel like we should. Plus then we would be just like millions of Americans who put less an less energy into really understand what is going on in the world. I don't know what the right answer is- should I stay or should I go?
I am currently debating about our subscription to the New York Times. Monday through Friday we get the paper delivered to our door. I prefer it to the metro paper, which has slid into very little of substance and certainly now has very little coverage of national and global news. I like reading the front page while I eat my cereal in the morning, I prefer the interesting stories in the nyt, and to be honest, I just like getting a paper every day. I prefer the real thing to the website, and feel like I take more time to read it at some point during the day if it is actually sitting in front of me rather than summoning me from cyberspace.
On the other hand, the paper used to arrive at 6:45 am, but lately it is not even in our door by 7 am. That means that it often misses my breakfast window and I end up reading online. Often times I will arrive home late, after a full day, and just have to toss the paper in the recycling bin after no one has looked at it (husband is an avid online reader who only sometimes takes time for the print version). Before I notice it, we will have several days built up on our coffee table during a busy stretch. The waste of both resources and money drives me a little crazy.
In a time where I feel as though I should be more responsible with all of our resources, I wonder if we shouldn't just cancel our subscription...But then I think that we would become just another example of how people are pulling back and making the economy worse, not because we have to, but because we feel like we should. Plus then we would be just like millions of Americans who put less an less energy into really understand what is going on in the world. I don't know what the right answer is- should I stay or should I go?
posted by KLOU | 11:15 AM
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