Despite many years of traveling the information superhighway and getting most of our news from digital sources online, we still buy the Sunday newspaper.
Specifically, we get a copy of the Honolulu Advertiser. It’s not that the Advertiser is the best Sunday paper, or has the most comics, or better features. They have more advertising than the Star-Bulletin and my wife bases her weekly habit of visiting every grocery store chain on Oahu from the sale items advertised in the Advertiser.
I’m not sure why it’s necessary to buy the paper if she plans on visiting every store anyway, but it’s a ritual and we’re big on marital rituals.
Guess what? I don’t read the Advertiser’s ads. I read the Letters to the Editor. And Lee Cataluna. I would also read Charles Memminger, but he blongs to the other daily newspaper.
Letters to the editor give me an opportunity, in the safe confines of my own home, to realize just how many crackpots there are living in Hawaii.
In the online digital world, letters to the editor take the form of comments at the end of each article. The very best news and opinion sites online do not have comments sections. HawaiiBlogger does. Except that the site’s articles receive few comments, so I must only conclude that nearly everyone who reads this agrees with what I write.
Even Charles Memminger doesn’t have that kind of success with readers.
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