It's not like it was a very "big" paper anyways....

CSM is one of my daily news sites. Damned fine publication if you ask me. IMHO probably the most objective news source. That and the economist.

Damned fine publication if you ask me.

~LipZ

Spud aint askin' but he is agreeing.

Spud remembers expressing surprise early on in blog-world when the blog-god would often use the CSM as a link to one of the stories du jour hereabouts.

After reading a bunch of such stories Spud was forced to conclude that their bias is not nearly as corporate and as obvious or odious as many other similar sized publications and that the quality of the writing at CSM was actually quite good as well.

So, the CSM finally drops it's print edition completely?

Good fer them, sez Spud.

It won't impact Spud's use of them as a source in blog-world and it will save the company some bucks and the world a few trees.

Is win/win.

Be Well.

What us CSM? How many 60+ will read it on-line. About zero.

who cares?

in thinking back and pondering the media as it sits today and the newspapers i've read, i've concluded that this has been the best newspaper i've ever read. this is over period of years and years. i had a subscription though their delivery system was via mail. one would arrive one day, none the next and two come the morrow. that never cut.
the web site, i would gladly pay to read.

tis interesting that such a fine news source was founded and kept alive via a religious organization. while not digging into the c.s. belief system, this is not a religiously/right or left wing, biased newpaper.
seemingly politically neutral with no religious agenda... the paper does contain one religious article daily as other newspapers have but that aspect does not drift onto the other pages of the paper. i do know that the tenants for the c.s. religion in no way promotes a theocracy.
if only that were a more often the approach in today's churches.

all the best.

CSM is very well respected in journalist circles. Very well written. They did an excellent expose about NeoCons a few years back. Makes the current venture into socialists bailouts of Wall Street under the influence of their political leadership a perfectly reasonable conclusion to their policies. You can dress them pigs up but they are still pigs.

Computers will be part of the ruination of this Grand Country. While true it offers more resourses to it's ISP Subscribers. It takes away from the nostalga of drinking coffee reading the print newspaper and sharing that knowledge gleaned at the dinner table. Hell they don't even have penmenship in schools anymore.

Larry

LARRY

I don't agree that computers will be part of the ruination of this country.

The print media and the television media is restricted by space and time respectively and it's too easy to use those limitations, shall we say, less than subjectively.

If you believe that knowledge is power, then the infinity of the computer, without limitations, puts us all light years ahead of the generation before us.

When I try to talk to people who are computer illiterate, their understanding of what's going on around them is chock-o-block full of sound bites and jingleism that they've heard or read but have to indepth knowledge to back up their opinions.

I find it a shame really for anybody to be computer illiterate.

BTW, are you still using your WEBTV? I loved that little rascal when I first started out. I thought it was great fun. I still have mine. It's just gathering dust on a closet shelf but I can't bring myself to throw it out.

Yeah I have both a WebTV and a computer. It's my solace really. Glad to know I am not the only one who began their internet exploration with the WebTV unit.

Larry

LARRY

I was always amazed at what that WEBTV could do if someone wanted to invest the time to learn. It was probably as far removed from a real computer as one could get but, as an introductory tool, I thought it was great.

People laughed at it but I didn't care. My whole TV screen was my monitor and I loved that part. Of course, I've graduated to the "big time" now with my Dell laptop but I miss those mornings when I could prop myself up in bed with that little wireless keyboard in my lap.

Yep and for such a small gadget it sure ruled. Especially if You hooked it up to a large screen. Easy reading for sure.

Larry

[CSM is] probably the most objective news source. That and the economist.

You left out Pravda, komrade.

Where are those wackjobs from the LA Times thread when you need them?