I'll try this again, since my original comment appears to have been killed by the trigger-happy thought police. What a world we live in!

My original point stands, which was that newspapers are losing readers because they've stopped sticking up for freedom of speech in favor of preaching political correctness. They've become just like another arm of government.

The latest example of this was the Globe's ban on the interesting word "fey" simply because some individual or group didn't like it.

I suggested that people really should stop taking offence, especially when none was intended.

I pointed out that I'm an "old" man, but might bristle if a Globe writer described me as such. Should that, though, be cause to ban all Globe scribblers from using the word "old" when writing about old people? Of course not.

The further we go down this PC road, of course, the less relevant newspapers will become. And the more readers they will lose. I may soon be one of them.