Letter: Tribune print edition’s demise is understandable but the insulting spin isn’t
FILE - The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News newspaper boxes await customers on June 16, 2014, in Salt Lake City. The capital of Utah will go from two daily printed newspapers to none after both Salt Lake City's major publications moved to weekly print schedules in the last two days. The 170-year-old Deseret News said it will stop publishing daily starting next year in an announcement Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, a day after the Salt Lake Tribune made a similar announcement. The two publications' joint-operating agreement will also end at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
As a 75-year-old who used to scrape together my dimes and quarters to buy the Washington Post 50 years ago, I am really disappointed to not have a local morning newspaper. However, I understand the financials, as much as I hate the idea of even more time looking at a screen.
But when you announced the change, did you have to grossly insult me and other older readers by topping it off with that huge phoney picture of a deliriously happy, stupidly grinning white-haired couple? Just how dumb do you think we are? Did you honestly think older people were gonna go, “Oh look, they love it, so I will too.” I am still fuming at that. Unbelievable.
If it weren’t for Gehrke, Kirby and Bagley, and all the reporters, I would cancel my subscription entirely. The day The New York Times goes all digital is the day I fall on my sword.
Thea Brannon, Salt Lake City
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