I started reading The Salt Lake Tribune in 1973. I was in the fifth grade and the morbid fascination with the Hi-Fi murders to an 11-year-old was too hard to resist. I moved on to more genteel things like the comics, movie times and baseball scores, and have been a loyal reader ever since. Whether at the kitchen table with my mom and dad, or as a single man with a cat who loves to dive under the pages as I read, The Trib has become a morning fixture.
Forty-seven years later, my morning routine will all but disappear. No more stepping out into the snow in the winter to retrieve my paper; no greeting the dawn during warmer times; nothing to look at while I swig my coffee.
Reading the news online doesn’t work for me; nor do I have any interest with the babbling of local TV anchors. I guess I like many others will end up being one of the many mis- or uninformed Utahans. Heaven help us all.
Thanks, Trib, you’ll be sorely missed.
Scott Perry, Salt Lake City
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