The reality is that it’s not the same world (lower case) that it was in 1985, either. Has anyone’s life not changed since 1985?

We don’t have as many tens of thousands of print subscribers any more, but our readership — the number of people who actually read our product digitally on their phones, tablets and computers plus those who read the print edition — has never been more robust.

When I talk to readers and subscribers, most of their complaints are about the price of the print edition and the “slant” of national stories, those that we pick up from other sources, including The Associated Press.

Readers are always surprised when I tell them that we get similar complaints from those who identify themselves as “liberal” or “conservative.” I have literally received a complaint about a story being “left-wing trash” and then picked up the phone and had someone tell me the same story is parroting a “conservative conspiracy.”

These days readers view articles from a political perspective. Does it agree with the way I vote? Does it match what’s being reported on my favorite cable channel?

Most of those cable channels where readers get their “news” aren’t actual broadcasts that report news. They are personalities who take news events and load them with opinion based on the interests and beliefs that sophisticated research tells them the audience would like to see.