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Letter: I will miss the print Tribune

FILE - This April 20, 2016, file photo shows copies of The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper in Salt Lake City. The Tribune newsroom takes up one floor of the building that bears its name, overlooking snow-capped mountains and the arena where the Utah Jazz play. Once a Digital First property that dealt with staff reductions and feared closure, the paper was sold to a prominent local family in 2016. Since then, its reporters received their first raise in a decade and won a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

FILE - This April 20, 2016, file photo shows copies of The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper in Salt Lake City. The Tribune newsroom takes up one floor of the building that bears its name, overlooking snow-capped mountains and the arena where the Utah Jazz play. Once a Digital First property that dealt with staff reductions and feared closure, the paper was sold to a prominent local family in 2016. Since then, its reporters received their first raise in a decade and won a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

By Edward J. Zipser | The Public Forum
  | Oct. 29, 2020, 12:00 p.m.

I was deeply saddened to read the announcement that my daily ritual of starting the day with my Salt Lake Tribune over a cup of coffee will end in two months. Since moving to Utah 22 years ago, my morning SLTrib has been my connection to my adopted home.

I know that nothing I say will change your decision, but I cannot be silent.

Yes, you will offer to sell me an on-line subscription, but it’s not the same. I get The New York Times online, but I have no choice what to read without scrolling through the entire issue. And reading on a 3-inch screen is no fun when you are over 80 years old. Neither is going to a less comfortable room to use the laptop.

With the morning hard copy paper I can see at a glance how to prioritize my choice of what to read first, what can wait, and what I can ignore.

If you are true to your word, and continue to provide excellent journalism that informs us all about this city, county and state, I shall do my best to adapt.

Edward J. Zipser, Salt Lake City

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By Edward J. Zipser | The Public Forum