detroit free press daily commuter crossword

It allows one to settle into a favorite chair instead of peering at a screen. Reading an actual newspaper is more orderly ,and faster. Reading the paper under Sanjo bridge (MShades) I get into a mind zone: Let's see what happens if I follow this link.

Too often on the web, I'm under the impression that I'm downloading vast amounts of news into my eager mind, when actually I am playing a sort of crossword puzzle of the news, substituting stories for letters. I clicked on it as a Pavlovian reaction, because it was in screaming red on top of the page. The point is: I had only a cursory interest in the story in the first place. I know, I know: How many people are going to start on the top page of HuffPost and end up with (1) the mission statement of IPS, (2) the Global Post, (3) Lebanon, (4) Google News, (5) Google news search, (6 + 7) twice at the New York Times web site and (8) once at the print edition? Just about none, I would guess. Reading the paper on Sunday morning (Alan Clements)Ī story that was apparently not even news had cost me time in which I could have finished half the New York Times, because I am a fast reader. You're not always sure where it comes from, you get convinced it's important because of a big color headline, and then you find yourself careening down the rabbit-holes of hyperlinks. That's the insidious thing about getting your news from the internet. I searched the New York Times with the same keywords. The Global Post link was to a blog with a Super Bowl tie-in. I went to Google News, typed in 'Gates Obama Iraq,' and found two stories, one from the Daily Star in Lebanon, the other from the Global Post. I clicked on it, and was taken again to the Politics page, but the story was not there.

When I went back online three hours later, the 'Generals' story no longer led the front page, but had been demoted far down the page. In the judgment of the New York Times editors, this was apparently not a newsworthy story. I checked out today's paper edition of the New York Times. Models simulating Mari's actual grandparents () It seemed prepared to go on forever without caving in and telling me who ran it, where they were, and who paid the bills. I listened to more than 90 seconds of vacuous generalisations. I clicked on the IPS offer to 'Watch Our Presentation,' and got a YouTube video. Note that every sentence begins with 'IPS,' but none of them explains the acronym. What is the South it raises the voices of? What is civil society? 'About Us' was obviously written not by a journalist, but in VapourSpeech. On the IPS page, I found 'About Us:'Īpart from the British spellings of defence and globalisation, this told me nothing. Why didn't IPS know that? For that matter, what was IPS? HuffPost can be dodgy about revealing the sources of some of its news.Īt the bottom of the story, I clicked on a link to 'more from Inter Press Service,' which I, a news junkie, had sadly never heard of. As a trained newspaperman, I know you don't use unexplained acronyms unless they're virtually words themselves, like USA, NATO, or NFL. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates.' I scrolled down to find out what CENTCOM was. When I finally arrived at my story, the lead began: 'WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (IPS) - CENTCOM commander Gen. Would it have been too much trouble for the original click to lead me directly to the promised story? No, but this way they got three times as many 'page visits.' You click to a page, and then try to solve the mystery of where your desired story is on that page. But I've had similar adventures on HuffPost many times. Only now, while writing these words, did I realize that I should have clicked on the top headline on the Politics page, which had not changed, although now it linked to an actual story. This time that took me to a story about top-level secret talks. I clicked on that head, the same technique I had used on the page that brought me here. No story, of course, but I found myself on the Politics page, where I found the same screaming headline at the top, then a photo (the same one from the top page), and then a headline under that photo. I was intrigued by the screaming top-page headline: 'Generals on Obama's Iraq Decision.' I clicked on it. Perhaps as a strategy to generate more clicks and longer visit times, they make it tricky to get to the god-damned stories themselves.

This morning, I went to Huffington Post and realized it had become too slow for me. Reading the paper, Septem(By Elizabeth Perry click)

Detroit free press daily commuter crossword