Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bruce, I get the Irish Times and the Financial Times Monday to Saturday and also, on Saturday only, the Guardian. On Sundays, I dip my toe into Murdochland and get the Sunday Times and also buy another Irish paper - the Sunday Business Post. While I do read some articles from other papers on the net, between my interest in photography, athletics (I still organise four mountain races a year), and wine - plus attendant magazines, and a bit of tv news, I considered I'm mediad to death. As a previously omnivorous reader of books, I find that due to my obsession with the twists and turns in the financial market, they're suffering a major loss of my attention while photography is winning on the time suck stakes. Once I get my darkroom up and running properly, something else will have to give. I need Leica to invent bilocation.....:-) That said I just glanced at the Irish Times today as I went to an EGM in the morning & an AGM in the afternoon of the same Irish Bank today. The chairman & CEO were pelted with eggs by an unhappy investor which made the television news. I was not the thrower...... But you could say "Let he who is without funds cast the first egg" Anyway he missed his targets as they umm... scrambled away. The wall behind looked like a cookery programme outtake. Did I bring my camera, feck it.. NO!!! Douglas _________ Douglas Barry Bray, Co. Wicklow Republic of Ireland ----- Original Message ----- From: "bruce golding" <leica at ralgo.nl> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] kindle and newspapers > when i first visited the states, i encountered a "book" of a newspapers. > it was a week-end, i believe. > > pages and pages of opinion, thought, report, some photos., far far too > much sport; drivel for everyone's taste. > > saddened, because i spent hours trying to find the us and world news, > without true success, i renounced the challenge. > > years later, when living in paris, i quickly discovered the "trib."; > between 4 and 6 pages of world news and then the us sports; but quick and > easy to read. > now that was, for me, a news-paper. for opinion i went to le monde. > > the week-end 'papers and magazines in the uk were split into sections, so > that one could and still can, read only the parts of interest. > the magazines had the most wonderful picture stories on events from the > world, plus often indulgences to narrating, for example, the life of a > horologist ........ > > in the uk this market still exists, at the week-end, i think, but > ............ > > for the rest of western europe, national and local 'papers are dying > ....... rapidly. > commuters rely on the give-away editions; even in small towns for local > news, delivered weekly to the door. > > journalists with a personality which establishes a rapport with the > reader, will continue to be read somewhere, i hope. > but, for the rest, it's over. > > we are bombarded with information. to do/achieve what? each tries to > out-do the other, why? competition of the species. > to gain more, live grander; to what end? we sleep in one bed at a time, > require to eat satisfactorily and healthily, delight in family and > friends, enjoy .......... > our LEICAS. give and maybe receive .......... > > time to conclude, byee > b. > > > > > On 11-mei-2009, at 18:29, Phil Swango wrote: > >> Leo Wesson wrote:interesting radio article on the kindle and newspapers >> and >> the struggle for >> newspapers to survive in the internet world. the newspapers here are >> tanking, most of my friends that work for newspapers no longer have >> jobs. >> >> I was wondering how the rest of the world deals with this? are your >> newspapers going out of business? >> =================================== >> >> Here in NM the Albuquerque Journal is still published and sold on the >> street >> as well as by subscription. I get it at home, and it doesn't seem to >> have >> changed much in the 15 years I've lived here, except that I've noticed a >> trend for local news to get more coverage on the front page. Maybe >> that's a >> tactic that can work for others -- concentrate on local news that >> wouldn't >> appear on national online sources. Most days I also read the NYT, >> Washington Post and USA Today, all online. Some days I also check the >> WSJ >> and CSM and a few others. I download the NYT and USA Today to the iPod >> Touch. USA Today has a particularly readable app for the iPhone/ Touch. >> >> Readability can be an issue on some devices but I have no problem with >> it at >> all on the Touch. Maybe one reason is that I'm hyperopic and presbyopic >> so >> my prescription involves a good bit of magnification. >> >> I've just started getting the New Yorker online in addition to my paper >> version. Not sure yet how that's going to work out but it's free to >> subscribers so I'm trying it out. >> >> -- >> Phil Swango >> 307 Aliso Dr SE >> Albuquerque, NM 87108 >> 505-262-4085 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >