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Originally Posted by glatt
I know your post is sarcastic, but you are right with the newspapers. The thicker newspapers of a big city are far far superior to the crap they print in small town papers. There's simply far less news in a small town paper, and it's mostly fluff.
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I disagree. Smaller newspapers aren't beholden to mega-advertisers to drum up buzz and sell copies. They talk about things that are of immediate concern to the readership, whether it's a "big" news day or not. There's plenty of fluff, but that's because fluff is what's happening. In a 8-inch thick newspaper, 4 inches of the thickness is advertisements, 2 inches is the editorial board attempting to indoctrinate the reader into its personal political viewpoint (invert the previous 2 numbers for the Washington Post), 1 inch is sports, and the last inch is divided between actual news and information about which Hollywood debutantes are catfighting that week.
Out of 100 pages, maybe 16 contain anything you might actually need to know. If you're an investor, add 8 for the stock report.