Recently a good friend bought me a subscription to the New York Times weekend edition after tiring of listening to me gripe about the lack of relevant news in the local rag. The first paper arrived on Friday morning. I read through the A section and put it down, impressed but not overly so. The rest of the paper went under the cats' litter box (well, they're starved for news, too, you know).

On Sunday night, I had some free time and picked up the Sunday Times after going quickly through the Sunday Morning Call and finding nothing to hold my interest. I started with the NYT Magazine, then read the entire business section. Every single article was relevant, interesting and so darned well-written that I couldn't put it down (DO check out Virginia Heffernon's article "I Hate My iPhone" if, like me, you are about sick of Apple snobs). The only thing missing was the local and state news, but hey, with all the cutbacks, that's pretty much missing from the Call, too.

It just goes to show that there is good journalism out there after all. And to think I didn't have to go surfing the Web to find it; it came right to my door. (Sorry, folks, I'm old school when it comes to newspapers.) Now I can't wait for Friday to bring the next batch of real news to my door.