Dear Editor,
Each morning our family divides up the Free Lance and we read our chosen sections, at the same time, at breakfast.
Those who commute to work by train enjoy the paper to pass the journey and catch up on the local news. The home library (AKA – restroom) is a popular place to read and for some peace and quiet (so I am told). The newspaper is a great way to educate oneself and pass the time in the waiting room at the doctor’s office or while having the car serviced, having breakfast at a local eatery or as the passenger on a journey and even reading during a relaxed day at the beach or lunch in the park!
Do most people really want to use a computer and read the news on the Internet in the places I have mentioned? Each family member has to schedule their own time sometime in between work/school/shopping/the gym/gardening, etc. No more reading at the same time in the morning or evening or even at break and lunch at work! Not every family has a laptop, let alone several! Do you really want to carry it around all day to read articles as you have time? I think not!
With the Free Lance in print now, only on Tuesdays and Fridays with a subscription cost, and the Pinnacle on Fridays with no cost, I wish the Free Lance “good luck!” Will your readers of print renew their subscriptions? The San Jose Mercury News is still a seven-day-a-week newspaper, and though there’s not a lot of San Benito County news, it makes good reading. That, with the Pinnacle, will suffice!
I understand from friends that the new Internet format is not as quick and easy to find the daily news in the new Free Lance! They say it is still easier to quickly take the section they want and immediately read the articles.
Good luck to those who like the new Free Lance and to the newspaper whose enthusiastic readers may still prefer the printed format, five days a week when their subscriptions expire! The Pinnacle and the Mercury News will be a good option!
Ruth Erickson, Hollister
