I remember the days when newspapers had news. Now they have advertising. If they can’t get it all in the basic paper, they add whole sections which they insert. Advertising spilling out everywhere. Oh, I know about the financial foundation supplied to the “news”-papers by advertising. It brings in the money, but it is one of the corrupting, negative factors in our capitalistic system. Certainly not the only one, but a very important one.
If it’s mostly ads, is it a newspaper?
Thursday, July 26, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 3:37 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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