Dio Tararrel: In gratitude for the print paper and the op-ed section
It may take awhile to see The Tribune’s transition to digital as a gift.
Tribune Opinion Page
| Dec. 18, 2020, 1:00 p.m.
When I was a kid, we lived across the alley from our grandparents. They had a subscription to the local paper, so every day after school I would make my way over.
Eventually, I got scolded for not even bothering to say hi before I took their paper and headed to the brown living-room carpet, facedown, to immerse myself in ink and newsprint.
The first section would always be the comics (as Grandma called them, “the funnies”), then every word of the sports section, all the way down to the box scores. In sixth grade, that’s where I learned that my favorite player was traded to the Baltimore Orioles, and my gasp was so loud that it spilled two drinks in the kitchen. Last — after the front page, local, opinion, arts, religion and every other bit of news was consumed — came the daily stock market report.