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spent this morning searching Google for about half an hour, without success, trying to “discover” a book from my childhood. I guess I AM Page 1 shouldn’t have been surprised to find no trace of what I was looking for, since my childhood dates from the Eisenhower Administration. Pity, since this particular “Voyage of Discovery” was all about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, sent out west by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the hinterlands of the new America in 1804. This long-ago book about their two-year adventure was a marvelous read, as I recall, with wonderful illustrations, the memory of which has stuck with me ever since.
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looking for; when you’re turning the pages of a newspaper or a magazine, you generally don’t. Instead, you’re embarking, yes, on a voyage of discovery. Today happens to be July 25th; let’s take actually, I think of that phrase many morna walk through the print NYT. The front Camp 4 paws1.8v 1-07 12/13/06 11:30 AM Page 1 ings, when I pick up the copy of The New York page is a wonderful smorgasbord of “things Times lying in my driveway. happening now:” the start of the Democratic Convention, drug concerns at the Rio OlymLet me explain. A couple of years ago, I had minor surgery that required me to stay pics, the background of the Nice terrorist, the home from work for a few weeks. Long a sale of Yahoo, the future of Tesla and Elon subscriber to the digital NYT (in Musk. Interestingly, all of these 800-238-2010 ★ 901-332-3322 my business life, I’m online 12stories “jump” inside. And that’s PartyWithElvis.com 14 hours a day), I decided to take when the real “discovery” begins. © EPE. Graceland and its marks are trademarks of EPE. All Rights Reserved. Elvis Presley™ © 2016 ABG EPE IP LLC advantage of a special Times offer Skimming through the A sec• Training Available which allowed me to get a neartion, though, I don’t just jump; I free trial print subscription to the browse. And en route to finishing • Boarding for cats & dogs paper for a few months. It was a those front-page stories, I stum• Over 2 acres of secured play area transformational decision, leavble across all kinds of stories I ing me convinced that nothing in wasn’t looking for at all. An arti• Large indoor play area cle about transgender goddesses the digital world quite compares • Pick up & delivery included with reading at least some print in India, a Panama Papers story publications on a regular basis. about corrupt African despots, August 1987 901-372-9774 Camp w 4w paws1.8v 12/13/06 Pagedo1 we now get our news? w.camp1-07 -4-paw s.com 11:30 AM How the whys behind the resignation Besides cable news, many of us go straight to of Nepal’s prime minister, the possible conseour favorite media website home pages, from quences of the merger of four of the five top • Training Available Boarding for Dogs and Cats which spot we decide where to go next. Home health insurance companies. And much more. • Boarding for cats1-07 & dogs12/13/06 11:30 AM Page 1 Camp 4 paws1.8v pages are like restaurant menus; you pick I’ll stop there (and not even go into the B, included •Transportation Over 2 acres of secured play area what interests you, and link to it. Reading the C, and D sections); I hope you all get the idea. Boarding for Dogs and Cats NYT online, for example, is all about choices. The digital revolution has been transforma• Training ailabplay le area • Large Av indoor Transportation included Studies indicate that reading the entire daily tional — every bit as much as the industrial Air conditioned Indoor play areas cats & 12/13/06 dogs Camp • 4 Boarding paws1.8v 11:30 AM Page 1 • Pick upfor &1-07 delivery paper digitally is a formidable task, one that one of the nineteenth century — but in the Air conditioned indoorincluded play areas • Over 2 acresoutdoor of secured play area can take more than five hours of clicking. media world, at least, the jury’s still out on Large secured outdoor play areas Large secured play areas w w w. c a m p 4 p a w s . c o m Then again, many among us tend to avoid whether we’ve expanded our horizons or • Largeand indoor play area included Playtime socialization media home pages altogether, counting upon contracted them. Reporters no longer have playtime socialization • Pick upand & delivery included included A tail-waggin good time! Facebook or Google, among others, to keep to trek off to libraries to do research for the stories they write, but are readers paying as track of our interests and keep us informed Training and Day Care available! about the things that interest us. That’s great much attention as they should to those stowwA w.tail-waggin camp-4-pagood ws.cotime! m if you’re a devout Cubs fan, but not so great, ries, once they are written? Because your pet I don’t pretend to have an answer. And yes, maybe, when it comes to election campaigns, when algorithmic self-selection leads to opinthis may come across as self-serving. But I ion reinforcement and all kinds of political would suggest that everybody keep an open deserves the very best! problems. (You’ll hear lots about “silos” bemind about the necessity of print publicatween now and November.) tions in our increasingly digital world. After www.camp-4-paws.com Reading The New York Times in print, howall, what good is a day without a voyage of ever, is an entirely different experience. Think discovery? • Training Available Kenneth Neill about it this way: When you go online for publisher/editor knowledge, you have some idea of what you’re • Boarding for cats & dogs
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