Well…The Grand Rapids Press has been apart of my life since I learned to read so many years ago and, with that history, I have to comment on the changes that have come to that paper in the past few weeks. I know that the newspaper business has been in decline for the past couple of decades but why do the owners of the Press want to speed that decline? That is exactly what will happen with the de-contenting of the paper…making it just a compiler of articles that you can get in many other places. Don’t these people understand that the reason people read newspapers is to get something unique; that will deal with news from the local community but to also have depth of national and world reporting along with commentary that reflects all of the differing points of view? Over the past few years, the Press has abandoned it’s guise of fairness to pick up the banner of the far right with people like Michelle Malkin and the rest of the Fox News propaganda machine that do nothing but hate Obama and do everything in their power to minimize the initiatives that he has proposed to benefit all Americans…not just those that Fox News gets paid to shill for. One of the last comments I want to make is that with the proliferation of sources for news, the idea is that people will pay for value in those sources…but yesterday, when I picked up the Press to purchase it and noticed that it was about 20 pages worth of nothing for the new price of a dollar, I finally realized that there is no longer value there…so, after more that 50 years of reading the Press, I will have to say goodbye….the million plus people in west Michigan deserve better…geez…