When I was a kid, I read lots of different newspapers. In my home we had local newspapers, and newspapers from Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Indianapolis. In several classes in school the students would discuss an article read from the newspaper. So, I would discuss articles I found in these out of town newspaper. Famous columnists that I read during those days were Carl Rowan and William Buckley. For Buckley, I think it was because he favored my history teacher. I think.
Fast forward, today our newspapers has a brand new building, aided by millions of tax payers dollars. But it's readership is down. I see the newspaper lying around in schools and in the classrooms. And what are the few students I see reading, reading the sport page. I have no problem with the sport section, my oldest daughter entrance into journalism was writing about sports. But students how about current events? Where is that in the newspaper they ask ?
So, if a new building for our newspaper does not improved the adult writer's appeal to students to pick up a newspaper to read current events, do we blame the new building? Nope, so why are we surprised by the writing by these editors denouncing the spending of dollars on building for educating students. These adults editors are in a new building and they can read far better than these students, but these students are not reading or buying their newspapers. These students are online, killing the sells of advertisement dollars in the well written newspapers.
Yes sirree bob, a half a billion dollar is worth it to take our children into the future.
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