For the first time I am taking a subscription with my local newspaper

Luckily mine will be less than that

Printing press is a viable option for hope and truth.

A lot of the local papers have been bought up by the same assholes that run everything else.

For example my local small town paper is owned by Warren Buffett. Why should Warren Buffett own any type of media?

our Local is $36 a year, it's published weekly.

I’ve researched my local paper and I it seems to be pretty good

OP you are a lucky one then.is it an independent paper?

Not entirely. There is a bigger company that owns it. I scanned articles on the website though to make sure there is a good amount of local reporting and I was satisfied. If it was owned by anyone connected to the times, wapo, or anything like that I would NOT subscribe.

Another good source of local news can be the small town and AM radio station. There are still quite a few locally owned and they do their own interviews with representatives and sheriffs.

But the FCC wants to kill off AM radio.

Community papers were where I cut my teeth in journalism. With that in mind, I can safely say your local paper will probably not deliver on what you hope it will.

Sad for me to say, but true.

Give us a link, OP, so we can see this paper you've researched.

Easy to manipulate...if the owner of the local car dealership that spends many thousands on adverts doesn't like a particular story...then it doesn't get published..

Nah, I’m paranoid, not gonna put out anything that might hint at my location.

Easy to manipulate...if the owner of the local car dealership that spends many thousands on adverts doesn't like a particular story...then it doesn't get published..

I understand your point about creating an echo chamber and people's tendency to seek validation of their position, but it's unlikely you community paper *alone* will broaden your horizons.

The key to awareness and truth today is to glean information from a variety of sources and pray for discernment. It's important to read *whole* stories. To the end.

The second part is as you said -- real human interaction. Service to others in your own community on a regular basis will give you most of the community news you need and build the relationships needed we head into this uncertain future.

Good for you if you can tolerate reading your local paper. I can’t tolerate the one here and it doesn’t reflect my neighbors opinions or interests either.

Don’t worry, my community paper won’t be my only avenue of news. I go to a local church and volunteer for the local food bank. I will be exploring ways to invest more into my community. The main thing about the paper is cutting off my internet addiction. As long as I’ve been alive the internet has consumed so much of my time and it only gets worse. The world is being eaten alive by the internet and it’s destroying our societies. Returning to a physical print paper is a rejection of the internet as a medium. I am wary of the type of news I will get from the local paper, but I have decided it’s better than getting my news from the internet.

Suit yourself. I understand not wanting to feed an internet addiction. That is admirable. Let that be your reason for saying offline. But leaving because it's better to get your news from your community paper is misguided and a bit disingenuous.

When Daniel said, "knowledge will increase," in the end-of-days, it's the internet that is (imho) primarily fulfilling the prophecy. Free flow of information has been granted by the Father for a time. It will not last, in my opinion.

I am a millenial. I have owned my first house for a year and a half now. I have decided it’s time to quit the internet.

Obviously I can’t quit the internet all together, I use it daily for my job. But I will no longer use the internet as anything but a tool. A little over a year ago I unplugged my only major social media account and left Facebook. I have never once regretted that decision. However, I have always held that the internet, social media, forums, and news aggregators are the best and most responsible way to consume news. It was a shotgun approach, by having many sources of news I can get the real facts of a story. My opinion has changed and for my New Years resolution I am completely unplugging from internet unrelated to my work and subscribing to a local newspaper.

My opinion changed because of several reasons, but I will list three. The first reason is that being a responsible news consumer consumed all of my time. I was so focused on understanding the truth of the world that I ate up large chunks of time chasing stories. Time I could have spent at the gym, gardening, talking to my wife, etc. etc. I don’t want the internet to eat my time and I want to be able to focus on the things most important to me in my own home.

The second reason is that, despite my efforts, I would be deluded to think that I actually was getting unbiased news. I am a source of bias and my news collecting led to me honing down my sources to basically places I “trusted”. It’s important to be cognizant of our biases and I think we are fooling ourselves to think we can get at the whole truth free from our own bias.

The third reason is the most important reason is that the internet and social media are disintegrating the fabric of society. Our relationships are breaking down at the fundamental level and this is due to the internet. If you know much about economics you know that value is derived from scarcity. Social interactions have become infinitely less scarce with the internet and infinitely less valuable. We do not value our family, neighbors, community etc anymore because we do not need them for relationship, we can converse online and our echo chamber will always validate us. The internet also puts a toxic barrier between us and other humans. Our online interactions are unlike physical interactions. When you talk to someone in person you can read the subtleties of their body language and you must respond to their reactions in real time. It affects you. You care more about humans when you can see them and touch them. Social media and all forms of conversation on the internet dehumanize us. Is there really a question as to why we are on the brink of a civil war? Many people do not even know their neighbor, let alone trust them.

I have done my due diligence and researched the local paper. It is not owned by the New York Times or another globalist propaganda network. I am taking out a subscription and not looking back. I implore you all to consider what I’ve said and work towards healing the relationships that have degraded this year and work towards strengthening your community. When the clock strikes for January 1st you will never hear from me again.

God bless you all.

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