Is my e-ltr cancelling my local wingnut newspaper like the GBCW threads here? Here 'tis:

[UTUSN]

(Note, I sent a copy to NAVARRETTE. Note, my age: I'm really old. )

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To (newspaper, location) : This is to cancel my subscription, which will be the first time in all of my XXXX years that my household (my parents/family before me) will have been without a newspaper subscription. Except for the decade or so that I was away from this area, all of that experience has been with the erstwhile libertarian company owning all the local newspapers here, and it was all an exercise in oppression, like being a subject in an occupied culture, and it has taken me this long to realize that I can be free of it, that I can be out from under that perpetual dark cloud.

Specifically, with my twenty years as a customer of (newspaper), I have subconsciously been practicing awareness of how irrelevant it is to me, as I physically flipped past the stable of local columnists, and on the syndication level, zipped way past one Ruben NAVARRETTE’s junk trying not to see even his picture. The overall political philosophy and the messengers delivering that philosophy are both irrelevant and oppressive to what I think. Really, why should I pay you to attempt to feed me junk that is hostile to my values (no question mark here).

In lifetime terms, it has been the internet that has shown me that opinions are not monuments delivered by superhumans. And your stable of purveyors is outstandingly pitiful, and give the most credit for this cancellation to NAVARRETTE, the one time he can singled out from his permanent condition of mediocrity: How can somebody be THE MOST pitiful and mediocre?!

[Cleita]

1. My heart goes out to you.

As a person, who read the LA Times since I was able to read, I found that I couldn't any longer. It was like losing a mate when I finally realized that the little trip I made down the hill every day to get it wasn't worth the gas. No matter where I was in the country, I always found a way to get the Times over the years. But I was betrayed when it started becoming a right wing rag. It was the last bastion of real journalism until then.

RIP and I am again in sympathy with you. The internet still just doesn't have the same feel of opening a newspaper and during the day, when you get little breaks, going through the articles, comics, classifieds and finally the crossword puzzle at the end of the day.

[UTUSN]

3. They say tone/personality/feeling doesn't travel well through e-text, but there is a reason for

the simpatico vibes I've gotten from your posts all these years!1


Yeah, it's going to be a big adjustment to let go of the wood fiber, but really for years I've been flipping past pages and sections of the local rag, really reading only the few hard news local stories, the calendar events, and the comics/horoscopes (for FUN, for FUN!1). In getting used to internet compilations, like comics, it's been great to pick the favorites and ones not featured locally and skip past without even seeing the proscribed ones.

[LeftInTX]

2. Can't stand Navarrette, Gerson, Will, Krautkammer

Navarrette and Gerson appear the most frequently in our local paper.

[UTUSN]

4. NAVARRETTE is a worm, not representative of his home/Hispanic group

Like Clarence THOMAS, he benefitted from Affirmative Action then made a gambit for a career with the niche of turning against "White Liberal males," whom he credits for inflicting Affirmative Action on him. It was laughable that Governor GOODHAIR, in his whole absurd campaign, went to court NAVARRETTE "over iced tea." Who did GOODHAIR think NAVARRETTE had influence over to swing them to GOODHAIR, certainly not Hispanics. Absurdity. And why do outlets like CNN.com and the Washington Post Writers Group looke for ethnic opinionasts who are NOT representative of their group?!1 Puzzle me that.