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Sep 4, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

SYSCA coffee table book? A collection of the newsletters, Bel chimes in and culture vulture essays... I would 100% buy one of these and also buy it for all my friends 💖💅🏼

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Sep 4, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

Genius suggestion. Pre-order +1 😁

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Sep 6, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

Omg, that quote: "But also, as any good educator, lifelong learner, and equitable academic knows... if you can't communicate information in a manner that the person with the least knowledge has, then you didn't communicate the information well." Yes! This needs to be sent to everyone... thank you for this article, although I'm hesitant about some print media not being unbiased.

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Sep 4, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

I love this! I'm hesitant to pick up newspapers here in Aus, with Rupert Murdoch owning so much of our media it all has such a right wing slant that it's rage inducing to read. I would very much like to find a newspaper that is reputable and that I enjoy reading because I do think it's super important.

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Big mood fam! I have a digital subscription to The Saturday Paper and The Monthly (you can also get a physical subscription but physical newspapers sometimes give me the sensory ick) and I have never enjoyed journalism more. It has a pretty left leaning bias and is clever and accessible. and if you want a sort of sneak peek you can sign up to their two daily newsletters (Post and The Politics) and listen to their podcast 7am. I’m also partial to the Guardian and to TDA, cheek media co. and the Zee Feed as social first news and commentary platforms

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Ooh thank you so much! I’ve been meaning to look into more Aussie news sources that are actually reliable so this is a great start!

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Here in India it is pretty common to read newspapers. In fact, most people have a daily subscription to newspapers and we have newspapermen distrubuting them papers every morning. But I guess it will decrease by time because the next generation is not really into newspapers and who can blame us? Here the newspapers are owned by politicians so all the news is filtered and mostly about politics, and we mostly don't like politics that much and about latest news, we always have internet and instagram to make us aware.

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Sep 4, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

as the owner/editor/reporter of a small weekly newspaper that is still delivered in hard copy, free, to our local community - THIS!

I'll now be changing my newspaper description to "a boundaried digest of stories that won’t leave you feeling like shit" - thanks SYSCA x

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ugh leanne i love you! what paper???? xx

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Sep 4, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

The Pohutukawa Coast Times in south-east Auckland :-)

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omg those residents are so lucky to have u!

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Sep 4, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

and the world is lucky to have you x

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Sep 4, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

I love the feel, the texture, the smell of newsprint. I have subscribed to three papers, delivered daily, for four decades. These are an invaluable compliment to those I read online and often a critical source of facts otherwise unreported on. More is always better to determine truth. And physical newspapers go great with my morning coffee!

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three newspapers daily!!! damn linda you are single handedly keeping these papers in operation and i'm obsesssssed 🫶

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Sep 5, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

This whole article put into words feelings that I didn't even know I had and I freaking love when that happens

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ugh that is my LIFES WORK!

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Sep 5, 2023Liked by shit you should care about

Bro the PUZZLES I spend hours in front of the paper at my parents’ house reading the articles and doing the puzzles (code cracker is the best, fight me) and just having the slowest morning, and before I know it it’s 2pm 🥰

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the most PERFECT morning

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I have a friend that is actively trying to save/promote newspapers. She wrote a book!

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Same on the holding a physical copy in my hand!

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