Today I ended my subscription to the Volkskrant. Wtih pain in my heart because I had this subscription for almost 18 years; just after I finished university. Besides the fact that I have to cut down on my monthly costs, I noticed that I read less and less; just skimming the headlines.
In these times of crisis I felt bad after reading the newspaper. Everything is deteriorating and even if you know it is going OK, the newspapers always tend to make things catastrophic. If they continue like this they will make it catastrophic for themselves; people do not want to read how bad it is and that it will even be worse in the future.
"Good news is no news"; this is rubbish. Of course you do not have to shut your eyes for what is happening in the world, but informing us that we are in a recession is also no news. Nice; now it is official what everybody already knew.
I will get my news now from the internet and from TV; and I will still buy a newspaper at the supermarket on Thursday (for the cultural agenda) and on Saturday (for the background stories and entertainment).
I will miss my newspaper in the morning, but I will not miss the costs involved and the frustration why I have to read all the shit that is happening in the world. Hope is what we need. 
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