Why you should be reading a newspaper
If you aren’t reading a newspaper, you are missing out on an outstanding opportunity to learn a lot, be entertained and most importantly become better informed. The Toronto Star is the creme de la creme of Canadian newspapers and to see why it deserves the crown as ‘king of the news’ buy its Sunday edition. [Post was written in reference to Star, Feb. 11 edition]
The Toronto Star story, “Taking the system’s PULSE” is newspaper reporting at its absolute finest.
The headline story of the Insight section, compiled by TorStar Health Reporter, Kenyon Wallace, describes a 12-hour shift at a Toronto hospital Emergency Room. It is a comprehensive tension-filled story that clearly illustrates the crisis facing Ontario hospitals in dealing with emergency caregiving and the story likely applies to hospitals across the country.
Wallace touches on numerous bases in his article from describing the kinds of care available to incoming emergency patients to the specific staff personnel he observed while researching his story. Facts are presented, statistics are detailed, cases are described all to give the story more body, more credence and validity.
The story underlines the growing gerontocracy of our populace, the number of older, aged and chronically ill people is increasing. The gap between the gerontocratic numbers and the availability of their care is a crisis. Governments are unable to financially support this increasingly broadening gap. The crisis rising to catastrophic levels if it isn’t already there.
The Star columnist reinforces the excellence of the Toronto Star and its writers who create outstanding columns of amazing comprehensiveness given the time limitations given the reporters. This article bolsters the quality and depth of research these writers apply to develop their remarkably comprehensive pieces. These works are professional in quality and calibre, yet written for the everyday reader so that they are easily and better informed.
This kind of reporting is not the exception in the Toronto Star. It is the norm, available day in and day out, one column after another. It is the reason why newspapers such as the Toronto Star deserve subscription purchase. Simply said, incredible value for the money spent.
