I am at the point in life where I will not even read the L.A. Times if I find it free.
If I were stuck on a desert island, and there was a kiosk offering the L.A. Times, and I had plenty of change and no where else to spend it, would I bother reading it? Not unless I wanted some fantasy or light fiction.
It came to me why I find the Times so unsatisfying. I don’t like fantasy as a genre. Fantasy has little contact with reality. It is so irrational that it offends my attempts to suspend reality. It manipulates plot lines with Deus ex Machina moments. On occasion I can find an author that does it well, but they are few and far between.
Zombie movies are the same. I don’t have enough imagination to believe in the walking dead.
One of the reasons I don’t like the L.A. Times is because I don’t like fantasy. But then the L.A. Times is a good example of the walking dead. It can’t seem to be killed. It has no visible means of support. It infects and kills all it touches.
Run for the hills.
homo unius libri
It's pretty much the same with our "small town" paper. It's owned by out-of-staters who merged it with the local democrat rag and let the conservative writers disappear by attrition. It's only good for lining bird cages anymore (as long as the bird isn't offended).
ReplyDeleteWe still have a few regional papers also. It sounds like we have clones of your "journalists" here.
DeleteGrace and peace.