In addition to considering the switch to NY Times or USA Today, you might do what I'm doing, and that is get the Chattanooga Times/Free Press. The Chattanooga Times/Free Press Sunday edition only cost $1.50 and you get their TV guide at no extra cost, their daily edition is still 50 cent, it also has not shrunk. The Times/Free Press also has about the same news as the KNS and the TV guide is easily converted to TV listing in the Knoxville area.

Is the Washington Post available in Knoxville?

One of my favorite things about living the DC area is having the Post as my local paper.

Its especially good if you're a political junkie. DC is, basically, a company town, and, like any company town, the local paper focuses on that company -- the LA Times has strong coverage of the entertainment industry, the Detroit paper is good on the automotive industry. It just happens that the "company" in DC is politics.

And if you like the comics, it has a great comics section. And they're printed bigger than the near micro-scopic size KNS uses.

Their web site is also very good.

All the local 'news' papers are horrible in Knoxville. The Metro pulse is so full of ads and small print it's unreadable, and the 'news' sentinel is a joke, rubbish, and non informative. There is something wrong here and it's more obvious once you leave for 30 years and come back. There's something very, very wrong in this area. The local IQ is distorted by tradition and subliminal loyalties, like the news-less sentinel. Just say NO!

(1) Shrink the size of newspaper to miniature.

(2) Jack up price.

(3) Profit!

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

Canceling would be a good choice. The News Slantinel is a poor choice anyways. Pravda provides better news.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson

I don't know if the Post is available here, definetly not downtown, but the bookstores usually have a decent variety of out of state papers.

Remember, the mayor's family business gives away the News-Slantinel every Friday and I've been told they give away more papers on Friday in Knoxville than are actually delivered to the subscribers.

No wonder the local rag won't talk about the details of the federal subpoena served on Pilot (and Marathon Oil) about the pricing programs for fuel this week and the deliveries/inventories in the tank farm out on Middlebrook Pike. Local readers would like to know what happened, the local newspaper is committed to seeing that you don't get to know what happened.

. . . hardly better than the community newspapers that get tossed into driveways.

I quit subscribing to KNS back when they did just that.

On many rainy days the carrier managed to land the bagged paper with the opening upward on my steep driveway so I retrieved a bag full of rainwater and a paper.

So far they have managed to keep their online version literally if not figuratively dry.

And since I don't have a birdcage . . . .

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**** The subscription price has stayed the same. The price increase is newstand, which is what I buy, I haven't wanted to subscribe. When it suits them they do some reporting, like on the county turmoil, that was good but served their own interests too. They do an ok job of things, just not sure it merits 75 cents. Also***When I worked for The Daily Times court reporters wore SUITS to court. A REPORTER IN THE THIRD LARGEST CITY IN THE STATE DOES NOT NEED TO WEAR TANK TOPS AND LACE DRESSES TO COURT AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN GET INTO THE SENSATIONALISM OF THE COVERAGE!! ok then.

I may have posted awhile back that we quit the paper at Thanksgiving last year because they charged us extra for the Turkey day edition. They sold so many ads that the publishing costs were higher. Get that? They made more money and charged us with the costs that were required to make that extra profit. What jerks. Do those Republicans not understand capitalism, just like they don't at the national level?

Though I used to "go through" the paper every day, I never really missed it once we stopped it, which says it all about the quality of the paper. My nerves are probably just better because I don't have to see all their Republican propaganda.

They also hounded us on the telephone for days to try and get us to resume subscribing. Buh-bye to them.

Sarge, can you get home delivery of the Chatt Times now? I had looked into it a few times many years ago when the KNS would piss me off, but at that time they delivered north only up to about the Loudon area. I'm not sure it would matter anymore, though. It's not the old Chatt. Times and we have the McCain/Stevens intertubes now!