Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Track changes #1



a few weeks ago i got this letter from the Boston Globe. this letter came after many phone calls to ask and make sure i do not want o re activate my subscription i had canceled a few months after we got it in the first place.
there were many reasons we canceled the subscription, the first one came when i left the house one day very early in the morning, actually one could call it very late at night to pick up my parents from the airport, and saw the way the newspaper was actually delivered to my door. a guy driving an SUV was moving along slowly going the wrong way on out one way street with the back gate open throwing the papers on to peoples doors. bad enough this was an actual printed newspaper, but now i saw it was also supporting the american auto and oil industry with this ridicules delivery method. then there was the fact that inspite of this being the 21st century, with all the amenities of the digital world and many decades of experience the paper was never printed properly with at least one page having off set color plates. the cross markers were never lined up and the paper looked like ass because of that. then there was the thinness of this paper. not a whole lot to read other then gossip and bad food reviews about bostons already way over priced restaurants that cater to the other half, not to mention most articles were AP or Reuters, with very little real content. the 3/4 page adds on every page made it hard to read what little content was in it anyway. then it was also not so cheap to get a daily paper which we almost never got around to reading anyway, and when we did we found little in it, printed badly. so we canceled our subscription, claiming we can no longer afford it., but those other reasons had as much to do with our cancellation as money.
then came this letter, in cursive letters which not me nor tess can read, obviously written by hand, as the ink smeared and i can see the pressure marks on the back of the paper, informing me of how cheap the paper might be if i want it back. now explain this to me - the paper is bad, has no content, delivered by an SUV, employed slave labor to write these unbelievable letters, and i should subscribe to it?
these guys need to watch giovani rebisi in boiler room once more. i am not sure that will help.

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