“Sometime this winter, I performed an experiment: I decided to subscribe
to home delivery of a daily newspaper. I am so pleased by the success of this
experiment that I can no longer remember why I undertook it, although through
my daze of self-satisfaction I am pretty sure that money was involved.
“A promotional offer probably arrived in the mail — the postal mail, I
mean — that was as insanely cheap as I am. Succumbing to a printed come-on
delivered by a flesh-and-blood letter carrier to subscribe to a real
newspaper-on-newsprint gave my experiment the feel of something reactionary and
backward-looking — another reason I was eager to undertake it. I even paid by check.
”
—Andrew
Ferguson, staff writer, “There’s No Substitute for Print,” The Atlantic,
April 10, 2019.
• Editorial Comment: And a kid on a Stingray bike tossed it in the bushes. Classic.
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