http://tamharbert.com/blog/farewell-newsprint/ Award-winning journalist specialized in providing compelling, insightful content on technology, business and government Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:36:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://tamharbert.com/blog/farewell-newsprint/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Howard Baldwin Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:54:19 +0000 http://tamharbert.com/?p=340#comment-50 We made this same decision when the San Jose Mercury-News became as thin as toilet paper, but less useful. Because we have two of everything in the Bay Area (football teams, baseball teams, freeway routes), we switched to the San Francisco Chronicle. If I don't read a newspaper in the morning, I still feel as though I haven't brushed my teeth. It would be nice if the Chronicle understood that there was a third major city in the Bay Area, after SF and Oakland, but I assume they'll figure it out in the days (or perhaps years) after the Mercury folds. We made this same decision when the San Jose Mercury-News became as thin as toilet paper, but less useful. Because we have two of everything in the Bay Area (football teams, baseball teams, freeway routes), we switched to the San Francisco Chronicle. If I don’t read a newspaper in the morning, I still feel as though I haven’t brushed my teeth. It would be nice if the Chronicle understood that there was a third major city in the Bay Area, after SF and Oakland, but I assume they’ll figure it out in the days (or perhaps years) after the Mercury folds.

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