Coal miners and gas and oil workers have been crying the blues of late but they have nothing on workers in the newspaper industry Nothing.

Newspapers have been dropping like flies the past 15 years as advertisers fled to the internet and Google and Facebook and Twitter and all the other sites able to cash in on the addicts who can’t put their phones down.

All I can say, folks, is that you’ll never be able to start a fire in the woodstove with a cell phone or a laptop. Yes, you can toss those items in after the fire has started but I truly hope someday people decide to go cold turkey and just go back to reading. But that won’t happen soon. People are just too darn addicted to give up their electronics without an intervention of sorts.

The newspaper industry has dwindled. The various thought herders and propagandists have added fuel to the fire by denying facts and reason and a search for truth through journalism. The thought herders and propagandists have gladly besmirched the professions, culminating with Donald V. (for Vengeance) Rumpt calling us the enemy of the people. I get such a hoot out of a faker like him.

I have to admit I felt a little punch in the gut when I saw that my old newspaper, the Lake County News-Chronicle, was going to fold. After working there as editor and pressman for several decades I figured I was going to retire there and eventually be buried with old Goss Community Press in my burial plot out behind the building.