Clark Kent is a Blogger – Santee, CA

Aren’t we all – this entry case in point? While we get a lot of our information and current affairs data from the internet, we still like the look and feel of the newspaper. As we travel across America, we buy the local papers each morning. Sometimes the paper is truly local with little or no national or world news included. And, sometimes we are able to get bigger city (in the neighborhood) publication (i.e., LA Times, Chicago Tribune or Sun Times, Sacramento Bee, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Reno Gazette-Journal, etc. etc. etc.) and always can find the New York Times everywhere.

When we first tried the San Diego Union-Tribune, it was mostly small ads, little information outside San Diego, few comics (really isn’t this most important), and no NYT crosswords (especially Sunday’s). We even commented to others that we were very disappointed in the Union-Tribune. With newspapers failing across America we were surprised that the U-T, as it is locally referred to, was in fact getting better.

We noticed 2 years ago that the paper was covering the nation and international news more. Now, they have added more comics (yea) and publish the NYT crosswords Monday through Sunday. The ads have increased so much that the Thanksgiving edition for Black Friday was thicker than the NYT and much harder to find around the RV Park, local bodegas and grocery stores. Usually, Ruthi walks Karma to the farthest paper dispenser on their morning walk but there weren’t any papers in either of the dispensers. So, we had to go to 3 places outside the RV park to find a copy.

We don’t know what happened to the U-T to improve in an age of declining hard copy news. If even Clark Kent becomes a blogger can the demise of all papers be far behind????