Sorry I haven't been here today for you, dear newsfromme readers. I've been so busy that I didn't even have time to watch Bill Maher's show when it was telecast two hours ago. I can't imagine what he had to talk about.
I'm going to make this a Trump-Free Weekend on this blog mainly because I don't want to waste my time thinking about him. I still think we're a loooonnnggg way from knowing how things are going to turn out in the Democratic Primary, let alone the November election. (By the way: I got my by-mail primary ballot the other day. It says "The ballot must be received by the elections office no later than 3 days after Election Day." Don't they know that we're California, the big primary? Assuming the rest of the ballots are actually counted on the evening of March 3, someone's going to declare victory. No one's going to presume that ballots that come in three days later can change anything.)
Here's something that I think I understand but I'm not sure. I subscribe to a number of online newspapers…mostly ones that I link to a lot on this site. For a long time, I didn't subscribe to the Los Angeles Times. When I looked up what Digital Access would cost, the price was as follows: $1 a week for the first four weeks, then $4 per week thereafter. That works out to $196 per year. No thank you.
They keep mailing me offers and I really didn't look at them. Right into the trash they'd go because I figured that even if they give me half-off, that's still too steep. Well, the other day, I paused to read one of those offers. These all involve entering a promo code included in the mailer I received.
It offered me Complete Digital Access for 99 cents a week. That's a little under $52 a year, down from $196 for the first year, over $200 a year thereafter. Sounds like quite a bargain, right?
It is but it gets better. They're really, really eager to send me a physical newspaper also. I assume this has something to do with ad rates keyed-in with print circulation. There are all sorts of different packages — daily delivery, Sunday only, Saturday and Sunday…all including Digital Access.
I picked Sunday only. And I just signed up for Sunday delivery plus Digital Access…for $9.88. That's per year.
That's how it works, people. I can get Digital Access for $196.00 a year or they'll discount it to $52 a year. But if I let them dump a copy of the Sunday paper on my front lawn each week, I get the paper plus Digital Access for an entire year for $9.88. This may not be in every zip code but it's in mine. Like I said, I think I understand it. But I'm not sure.