Josiah Gitt would have a fit...of apoplexy at the very least.

The digital, on-line version of the York Daily Record has essentially ceased to be a source of news for actual reading, trading "real news for real people" for an unending barrage of photo galleries of high school events. 

I thought the most egregious example of this paywall digital yearbook was the steady stream of prom and graduation galleries last spring....accompanied by an nearly total absence of coverage of School Board meetings at the very time of the year when those bodies are setting 2018-2019 budgets, and, more importantly, setting tax rates.

A search of ydr.com came up empty for any stories about my District's budget.  It took a lot of internet searching to probe the District web site and learn that, for the first time in a few years, I would be spared of a tax increase.   Maybe I 'm becoming an old crumudgeon but that is what I consider to be "real news"---not a bunch of pictures of giddy teens in their prom finery.

I am four decades past those silly years.   My child(ren) more than a decade beyond.  There better not be any grandchildren yet.  Frankly, my dear, I don't give a ....

This fall is proving no better.   Photo galleries and videos of High School Homecomings and Friday Night Football clutter the index page.

DAMMIT, I want to READ!

Not look at picture, not waste time watching movies. 

Read.

The muckety mucks at USA Today have determined that every flyover back country community wants to be post-literate.

If I want Facebook, Snapchat, and Instargram I will go there.   For free.  But I don't and I won't.

And so we are being fed a load of useless hay--for pay.

A dollar a day for drivel.

PT Barnum was right.