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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 514444, member: 27"]
Thought that was a good, impartial overview of the situation. 
 
I love getting a newspaper.  I love the rough feel of the paper, the smell of newsprint, the struggles to get the pages to stay put trying to read from a chair.  I love the feeling of being truly informed after reading a paper throughly.  It was like getting a briefing from 100 close friends.
 
I understand and acknowledge the downsides...the damage to the environment from cutting down trees and converting them to paper, all the landfill waste, the lost time and tremendous inefficiencies involved in printing and distributing papers.  It is a minor miracle they ever existed. 
 
Going to a website and getting the information there isn't the same.  for some reason, I don't feel I have the time to look at things I am not specifically there to review.  It seems more inpersonal, more antiseptic, more corporate.
 
I am sorry for all the kids growing up now who will never have the chance to deliver newspapers.  It was a great job for a kid to learn about self reliance, keeping obligations and managing money.  I can still vividly remember the smell of the bundles of paper (5 star delivery today!), the sound the wire holding them together made when it was cut and the smear of newsprint on the inner half of my forearms.
 
My condolences to all the Syracuse newspapers employees who lost their jobs today.  Thanks for all the stories over the years.  Hope you end up with a better job as a result of the changes.
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