Over the Hill and Through the Woods, to Pick up Morning Newspaper
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Shameful lack of delivery by a newspaper which has a rich tradition in Binghamton, NY, but is now being run from the USA Today Network out of town. I hate driving to get the newspaper, but these people are screwing us here in rural Newark Valley and they don’t care, as they have shut down their local office. Thus, I am really happy to listen to my music on a locally-owned radio station like Cool 106.7. I just don’t like hearing an advertisement which indicates you favor of those who like 1980s music and the rest of us, like those in rural Newark Valley who are not getting effective newspaper delivery, are like chopped liver. Don’t give me any excuses about why the Press & Sun-Bulletin is not doing delivery of the newspaper, because there is a hidden agenda of newspaper fat cat executives which began with the 2008 recession and contains a hidden agenda for strategies to destroy print copies of newspapers. It is not a “natural” function of progress. That is a complete lie. Thus, I become happy and positive from listening to Cool 106.7 and hearing about “locally owned.” I wish the Press & Sun-Bulletin were locally owned because what they have done to whittle down the content is what has hurt the newspaper, not printing of print editions. I protest and object to such a fabrication for which too damn many people just accept without question while giving BS about how bad the government and politicians are. The problem is not government. The problem is big fat cats in the younger generation who have centralized control of the supply siders in the same way the communists did to the Soviet Union – centralized control. The difference is that it is NOT the government doing this, as in Moscow of the past. It is actually the opposite with big fat cats and PACs following the words of freaking Reagan (who said “the problem is the government”) who supported supply side economics for the purpose of eliminating regulation by a third-party called the government and ultimately, the monopolization of business which has pushed small locally owned business under the bus. Therefore, I take this time to write to your station and express thanks for being a locally owned radio outlet with music I enjoy listening. But my interests are 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and less emphasis on 1980s. However, living in centrally controlled America with big business which acts like the communists of the former Soviet Union, I have less choices, so I have to put up with what I hear of people from the 1980s music. Believe it or not, there are others of us who like those other decades, cannot afford SiriusXM (in retirement), and ….. besides SiriusXM eliminated their channel 4 from the 40s, channel 5 from the 50s, etc., and replaced with boring repetitive stuff from one person we might like. I like variety, even if I do like Frank Sinatra or the Beatles, etc. I don’t desire to listen to one station which broadcasts ONLY Frank Sinatra or ONLY the Beatles. BORING! A variety from the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, etc.We might be smaller numbers, but so what? SO WHAT? We are still alive and deserve music that we enjoy, too. And glory be, but teaching music appreciation in Florida, I discovered that many young people are never given the opportunity to listen to music outside the shallow young people’s herd, so they reject anything which does not conform to their wishes.
With all of this being said and based on what I said about being forced to drive to pick up a newspaper because of the lousy customer service at the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Gannett), I get to listen to Cool 06.7 while I increase my carbon footprint and pollute the atmosphere from my gasoline engine. What I really disdain are the damn little snippets which shallow people think are funny. Being forced to listen (or turn it off) this morning, I heard a statement about getting up and being positive. Driving a car to pick up my newspaper is NOT positive and does NOT start my day off very well. But to listen to a brief statement about, “be positive and don’t listen to the news,” I wanted to turn off your radio station. What a shallow remark to make. The correct statement would be, “be positive by demanding we NOT pay, through high cable television prices, for bloviating political analysis stations like Fox, CNN, or MSNBC, etc.” We are FORCED to pay for these things and that really removes my positive feelings. Listening to events and what is happening in the world, believe it or not, is not entertainment. It has been turned into entertainment and it sucks, especially when we are FORCED to listen to the bloviating lies of some of the politics. Some is NOT lies. Some of it is. But no one differentiates between the truth and lies. As a student of Syracuse University and the Newhouse School of Communications classes, I am speaking out about how bad this has become, but even more so. Rather than 350 channels of crap on cable, give us the opportunity to watch political bloviating, religion, ESPN and sports an opportunity to choose on demand. In days gone by, I chose Syracuse University football on demand by purchasing tickets at Archbald and/or Carrier Dome. I was not forced to purchase ALL sports games with an athletic fee, back in the 1980s. Today, based on the model of cable television, as a graduate student at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), I was FORCED to pay an athletics fee in order to get into any sporting event at FAU for free. And people complain about tuition? Go to hell. Our FAU Graduate Student Government Association failed at getting the message through – the graduate students did not want to go to all games. At SU, I have never held an interest in watching basketball, baseball, lacrosse, or anything else. Just football. Should I be there today and asked to pay an overall athletic fee, I would protest. But no one listens to the people today, only the shallow ones with big mouths get heard – such as those who love the 1980s music, as we hear in your commercials. Whether cable television and paying for a menu of choices as if we pay a restaurant for everything on its menu. But no one makes sense of what I am saying. So, I like learning the news and reading many non-news items in the newspapers. Our visual impairment makes it difficult to read electronic editions, let alone the expense required to make such a technology easy to use while sitting sipping coffee in an easy chair.
I am not going to shut up in this regard and work to reach out to as many people as possible. Because a collective voice does more than one voice. Sure. At FAU, that collective voice against an athletics fee was ignored. But that is not the norm in my life. We in the SGA of SUNY got the assistance of Binghamton Republican Senator Warren Anderson and did, with a collective voice, protect some of the destruction some lawyer-politicians from New York City metro area wanted to push on upstate SUNY colleges. I was part of that collective effort, even if I was not writing and leading the effort. That part was done by the SUNY SGA.
Do I make my point clearly enough? Or is it just going to have holes shot into what I say by unsubstantiated facts and then some lousy conclusions made?
Tioga Herald 
Lousy Gannett Pravda
The automated system at Gannett Newspapers is so bad that I am beginning to wonder if I am being targeted, as Trump cronies do when they receive criticism. But that would make me paranoid. As paranoid as many Ukrainians might feel about a mentally disturbed man like Putin killing innocent people because he does not like the criticism when Hillary supported protestors in Russia back in 2016. How do mentally disturbed people with money and power, like Trump, Putin, DeSantis, Rick Scott, and others, respond? They take down their competitors who won’t go along with their lousy ways. They become vicious as they try, like some GODDAMN head of the Russian church does, to move society backwards, not acknowledging the history of the treatment of black people and bullying the LGBTQ+, even to be vicious in the bullying, as many of us once experienced.
We remember. We don’t take all of what is happening now for granted. For Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard said that is better NOT to go backwards, but move forward by learning from what happened in the past. GODDAMN those who want to FORCE us backwards.
And the fearful wimps who just sit by, whether of the LGBTQ+, African-American crowds or others, or whether they are not, are really lousy people for not speaking out. “It’s not that important.” Perhaps. If you are not gay and your are white, or if you are a Gentile. It’s of no damn importance to you, right?
I tried correcting my payment method for the Gannett Pravda, run from a centralized location with fat pigs who don’t reply to customers (capitalist DEMAND SIDE of the market) and the automated system was SO LOUSY, I ended up trying seven times to connect. It could not recognize words it asked me to say. “Billing” and “Payment.” After all, their freaking lousy online system, which they PUSH DOWN OUR THROATS WITH THEIR NEWSPAPER DIGITAL COPIES, DID NOT WORK IN ACCEPTING THE PAYMENT ONLINE. SO. What is one to do? Call. Seven freaking lousy times. If the GODDAMN SYSTEM could not recognize what the customer was saying, it just hung up. Seven times. As Jesus Christ said, “don’t forgive seven times but up to 77 times.” That is bullshit and I WILL become angry after seven times. As I did. I refuse to try to make a payment 77 times. Bullshit on that.
And where does the phone call go to? To a Binghamton local office? No. To the Philippines. Fuck the Philippines. There was a time when the DEMAND SIDE OF THE MARKET could get print copies delivered SEVEN DAYS OF THE WEEK, too. Nope. No more. And we pay for the FUCKING digital copy when we don’t want it. The visually impaired have a lousy time with a print copy. DOES ANYONE HEAR ME OR IS EVERYONE FUCKING DEAF? Or perhaps they cannot read the digital copy of my writing?
As you can tell, I am very angry about this. And when I am, I use vulgar language like FUCKING and BULLSHIT. Perhaps someone wishes to taunt me enough to put down my criticism, make me angry, and bring on a fucking heart attack?
We have fucking law firms like Mattar and others who learned how to do ambulance-chasing to drum up business. They end up with an American healthcare system in which we pay FOUR TIMES AS MUCH as the Canadians pay for healthcare. AND, Canadians now surpass Americans in longevity of life. BULLSHIT. Criticism, yes. So, go after me, rather than DO SOMETHING AND SPEAK OUT. Help the bastards and SOBs taunt me an mock me because you cannot read the copy of my digitally composed writing or else you are just plain deaf.
I am sick and tired of the bullshit patterned after Putin and a former communist Soviet Union. I am sick and tired of having this shit shoved down my throat by people from the Trump family, DeSantis, Rick the Prick Scott and the stupid idiots in states like Wisconsin who lie, lie, lie, and keep on lying. I am sick and tired of Tucker Carlson, asshole extraordinaire, praised by Putin for his PROPAGANDA. Telling lies over and over again becomes the truth. And from there, it becomes PROPAGANDA. Gannett Pravda is a centrally run newspaper chain which removes local control, replaces it with a basic thing for national news and in the process, like Tucker Carlson and fucking lousy Rupert Murdock, divide and conquer the people, destroying American democracy.
Meanwhile, lawyers in the justice system are more interested in “hurt in a car” than about DOING SOMETHING about this injustice which destroys democracy GODDAMN these lawyers who do this. GODDAMN them.
If you don’t like what I am writing or don’t like the language or other things, then all I can say is TOO GODDAMN bad if you don’t. Because you sit by as a wimp and allow plutocrats like Putin, Trump, DeSantis, Rick the Prick Scott have justice they way THEY define it. Practice the promiscuity that Putin makes a claim about Ukraine and then get the fucking lousy fundagelicals to support them as if they have a divine right. They are allowed to practice PROMISCUITY, but anyone else is not.
Therefore, they invoke their “divine right.” With this “divine right,” we are given the word, “FUCK” – “Fornication Under Consent of the King (or Queen).” They think they are above the law, can act with much corruption, fraud in elections that they want to do. In this case and in their lousy mentally unstable minds, “the end justifies the means.”
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