I agree with much of what the author states. However I find it hard to completely quit cold turkey. I’ve settled into three subscriptions: the local paper (whi

I agree with much of what the author states. However I find it hard to completely quit cold turkey. I’ve settled into three subscriptions: the local paper (which also carries syndicated inter/national stories that I ignore completely–I’m looking for local politics and economy, and especially the special interest pieces in the Sunday edition and the monthly community-events inserts, not the crime report type stuff); The Economist, in which I ignore all the leader articles and merely try to find at least one or two interesting articles to read each week; and The Atlantic, with mostly the same strategy as that for The Economist. I recently let my IEEE membership lapse but did the same with their Spectrum magazine. I try to do the rest of my reading in books and not social media–HN excluded, of course! I still have this teetering idea that I should cancel The Economist, it often seems like a gossip rag dressed up in sophisticated verbiage. But every now and then I do find interesting, if not useful, articles. Maybe I’ll switch out The Economist and go back to IEEE Spectrum or something similar. I usually enjoy the long featured pieces in The Atlantic.