On newspapers
I subscribe to three on-line newspapers now but to be honest don’t read them much. They are The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times, and The Washington Post.
For the past more-than-a-decade, I have tilted more to art than mainstream news or economics. These publications seem to have solid arts articles. Of course, as you get older, it is possible to have less mental energy. I used to read newspapers avidly. I read a lot of the London papers in my mid-20s while living there and later subscribed to The New York Times a while when I returned to the U.S.
I have said before that my problem with journalism, even though I was working in it a long time, is that reporters may have command of facts and details but not see the larger picture. To be honest, as a reporter, I just felt pressure to write something each day, no matter how banal.
It may be like posting a daily blog. Haha.