To Read or Not To Read - The Dundalk Eagle



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The Dundalk Eagle, owned by Kimbel Publication, Inc., http://www.dundalkeagle.com/ is a community based newspaper, which focuses its stories and articles on happening within the Greater Dundalk, Edgemere and Fort Howard communities in southeastern Baltimore County.  The paper is published once a week on Thursday.  You can purchase it in the store for $.50 per copy, or for the more avid reader, you can retrieve it from your mailbox for a yearly subscription price of $16.96 in Baltimore County and Baltimore City.  For those who do not live in these areas, do not fret, you can still receive the Eagle by mail for $26.50 per year.  There is even an online option, the cost for that is $8.48 per year.  According to mondotimes.com http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/20/1138/2729 the circulation is 19,500 copies.

I do have a subscription to The Dundalk Eagle and read it weekly.  I feel that the subscription price is small to keep me in touch with the happenings within my community.  For example this weeks edition tells us about the fate of the Severstal Steel Plant and the possibility of new owners.  This is very important for our community to know, especially since it is a major business in this area.  Many Dundalkians work there and many more have retired from there. I don't know how many times this plant has been sold but I do know that The Eagle was there to report on it.  Want more information about "Twelve Angry Men" the play that the DCT (Dundalk Community Theatre) will be performing this spring on our very own campus.  Guess where you can read about it.  Yes, in The Eagle.   I do feel that the Eagle provides worthwhile stories and articles that are going to directly effect me and my family.  Without this paper I probably would not be as aware of what's happening in my community because the bigger papers have bigger things to report on. 

I think it will survive, Dundalk is a community that values the businesses in the community and supports local businesses.  The Eagle being one of them.  You can see this in the pictures of those who took the Eagle on  vacation.  So The Eagle "travels".  As you look through the pages there are pictures of people and their Eagle in front of signs telling us where they are vacationing. You probably will never see my picture in this section, I don't feel the need to take a newspaper on vacation, I want to get away from it all.  But maybe some will do "anything" to get there picture in the paper.  I have had my work published however. Last semester my Speech class held a Candidates' Night here at the College.  The flyer that I made was published to advertise this event.  I doubt it would have ever been published in one of the larger newspapers.

The Dundalk Eagle has been in publication for 41 years and I see it continuing for another 41 years or more.  To read is the answer.

Magazines in the checkout line: Airbrush much?

When standing in the checkout line at the grocery store you are bombarded with magazines of all types.  They range from the National Enquirer to Weight Watchers.  You can find almost anything that you want.  There are magazine telling you about the latest fad diet or diet pill or how this celebrity or that celebrity lost weight fast. It seems like you can catch up on the latest gossip.  Who's sleeping with who, who's engaged to who, who is breaking up with who, and how long their marriage last.  Do celebrities have any privacy?  Evidently not.  Are the stories true?  Probably not totally.  It seems like editors will do anything that they have to to get a story and sell their magazine.  I feel like everyone has a right to privacy especially when they are going through hard times.  And if you are going to report on a story please make it real and truthful. 

The National Enquirer has always jumped out at me.  I think because their headlines are so bizarre.  I can't believe that the editors think that people believe this stuff.  But yet the magazine sells.  I don't buy it or the magazine.   If you go to this link you can find some of these stories and how rude, twisted or bizarre they are. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/

I do subscribe to Weight Watchers magazine.  I feel that the magazine is helpful in my weight loss because I can go to it for recipes and it supports what I am learning at my Weight Watcher's meetings.  You don't find fad diets or the latest weight loss pill, what you will find is support on techniques that will help your weight loss efforts.  This is the kind of articles you find in Weight Watcher's Magazine.

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I found it funny, I was walking through the store just the other day and a child and her grandmother were shopping.  The child had a magazine in her hand showing it to her grandmother.  I over heard her grandmothers saying, "You can't believe everything you read on the cover of a magazine, they will print anything to get you to buy it."  How true.

Evidently this is the kind of stuff that draw people in because this is what they are continuing to print and it seems to be selling.  I try not to be drawn in to the hype and when I do read an article I will use common sense and prior knowledge to dicipher it.