[Leica] RIP, my newspaper

[Jim Nichols]

George, you make a very good point.  I can't speak for Peter's paper, 
but our local, 3 days a week, paper today was about 20% news and 80% 
advertising.  Very little of value to me except for the obits, where I 
keep up to date on the passing of acquaintances.  If I need information, 
it is but a search away on the internet.  And, like you, I am not 
reluctant to use it.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 3/29/2015 1:24 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:
> I recommend caution when using catch all phrases like "dumbing down."
>
> I definitely see the the internet, and accompanying technology, making it easier than ever to Create; books; music; conceptual art across all mediums and and including new mediums and media.
>
> The smart and intelligent have incredible resources for researching and finding information on virtually any subject: health, history, literature, poetry, music, film, visual art of any sort, including photography.
>
> Certainly we can also point to a glut of dumb shit; but that has always been the case.
>
> Thanks to the internet, and many on this very list, I was able to meet with my urologist, for the first time, with a wide and deep knowledge of terminology, tests, treatments, meanings of numbers, and all of the procedures surrounding an Enlarged Prostate (BPH) and Prostate CA. I don't consider that a "coarsening and dumbing down of our culture." On the contrary I consider it empowering.
>
> a note off the iPad, George
>
> On Mar 29, 2015, at 2:05 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, George. I do wish the things I care about weren't go down the drain
>> quite as fast as they seem to be sometimes. But between the Internet making
>> it impossible to do most creative things except for free, and
>> the coarsening and general dumbing down of our culture
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