Category: Media

Does this Seem Right to You?

The local paper, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, which I respect a great deal, and which does a very good job of reporting on local and regional issues, published a story earlier this week about a candidate for the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors who had failed to pay property taxes for a number of years. This entry is not about the substance of the story (I try to stay […]

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Graph in NY Times re. Newspaper Readership

The Sunday NY Times editorial pages had a large number of graphs, showing the changes in the American publics’ attitudes and habits over the last 25 years or so. Most the the graphs were mildly interesting, but one was striking: The number of Americans who say they read a newspaper daily has declined over that time from about 70% to about 40%. As someone who reads not one but two […]

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