No dots in ‘press’

I hope something can be done to preserve our country’s newspaper publishing.

Benjamin Franklin may be moaning in his grave, as well as my own ancestors who fought for our liberties.

To me, “the press” refers to pressing inked typeset onto paper.

To many of us senior citizens, newspaper publishing has a nostalgic connection. In the 1930s we poor kids attending one-room country schools were driven into town to see how a paper was printed. We could hear the presses almost a block before reaching this office.

We watched typesetters arrange sentences with strips of letters reading backwards. To us it was magic to see straightforward sentences show up on paper.

I do need my morning paper; the coffee tastes better when the paper is in hand.

I don’t plan to invest in anything that gives me a .com, .org, or .gov even if I lose my citizenship for not complying.

If the newspaper subscription is increased, I’ll pay it and do without something else.

Lillian O. Forster

Spokane