You're still a newspaper! Enjoy your last several years being published.

Why do you hate information?

Why do you hate information?

I don't really read the sun-times anymore especially in print. What they do today?

They highlighted the athletic accomplishments of the high school otherwise known as the best academic institution in the state.

I know it's on here somewhere, but I remember talking with someone (maybe RPB) about how from the time I was a freshie in HS up until about 2008, I always had a Sun Times. It was a MUST, or else the day wasn't right.

I thought there was no athletic accomplishments and they didn't recruit?

You think they recruited those girls to play softball?

The last highlight before this was winning a state title in water polo...huge accomplishment.

Everyone is recruited to a certain extent. I think the argument was something more than recruiting. If you are saying that academic standards were in any way compromised for girls softball success, you are incorrect.

Dumb question here: in terms of information that is relevant only because it's constituted as "news," what is the incentive to keep on putting that information into hard copy print form? I realize not everyone is connected to the web 24/7 like my question may presume, but still I don't get why some news businesses insist on maintaining a printing press. Even if you happen to get great coverage and analysis of a major story that broke in time for it to get on the newsstand at 5 am, I guarantee that story is outdated by 6 am due to updates and other reports from connected sources.

I loved me some old fashioned paper reading as late as the mid 2000s, but I haven't considered buying/reading a paper in nearly 10 years. Again I realize not everyone has web access or skillz, but I'm just trying to wonder what from a business point of view keeps printing presses going in web advanced countries like ours.

I haven't sat down with mine yet today (to read 2 day old "news") but let me see if I can summarize...

Quinn is bad but Rauner is a crook
Rahm pissed off an alderman again
Preckwinkle is the savior.
Mary Mitchell is mad about race.
Steinberg things Obama sucks
Sneed had somebody's birthday and something about the Royal Family
The Ricketts family is evil.

Did I come pretty close?

Dumb question here: in terms of information that is relevant only because it's constituted as "news," what is the incentive to keep on putting that information into hard copy print form? I realize not everyone is connected to the web 24/7 like my question may presume, but still I don't get why some news businesses insist on maintaining a printing press. Even if you happen to get great coverage and analysis of a major story that broke in time for it to get on the newsstand at 5 am, I guarantee that story is outdated by 6 am due to updates and other reports from connected sources.

I loved me some old fashioned paper reading as late as the mid 2000s, but I haven't considered buying/reading a paper in nearly 10 years. Again I realize not everyone has web access or skillz, but I'm just trying to wonder what from a business point of view keeps printing presses going in web advanced countries like ours.

Because it's nowhere near the same reading the paper online. You only get the major stories or exactly what you're looking for. You don't read about the guy who hosted the Sitting In The Park radio show killing himself. Now maybe you don't care about that. I like to know a lot of shit. That's why I'm always in demand for cocktail parties.

I loved me some old fashioned paper reading as late as the mid 2000s, but I haven't considered buying/reading a paper in nearly 10 years. Again I realize not everyone has web access or skillz, but I'm just trying to wonder what from a business point of view keeps printing presses going in web advanced countries like ours.

Because it's nowhere near the same reading the paper online. You only get the major stories or exactly what you're looking for. You don't read about the guy who hosted the Sitting In The Park radio show killing himself. Now maybe you don't care about that. I like to know a lot of shit. That's why I'm always in demand for cocktail parties.

Don't know about the Sun Times but the tribune digital edition that appears at 5am every morning on my tablet is the same as the paper copy. In some ways I miss the feel of actual paper but the tablet means no more late papers, no more looking for them in the snow, and the ability to read the paper outside on Sunday morning without the pages blowing all over the place. And it costs much less. I think in its heyday we were paying close to $200 per year for the trib delivered. Digital edition is something like $6.50 per quarter.