PGe 4+

I like Newslide as an alternative to the paper as I live out of state about half of the year, but see two issues I’d like to see fixed. First - where are the columnists? I love their hometown stories and voice-of-the-people take on things. They keep me close to the city even when I’m mikes and miles away. Second, I use my iPad to access Newslide but am frustrated by the ads -not by their frequency but how they freeze my iPad screen for over 30 seconds and prevent me by swiping to any other story. Freezing for 5 seconds or so I could take, but 30 seconds is way too long!

The PG Newslide is a unique way to get some of the news. It offers the same article as on the PG web page, it just offers only a few. I suppose the thinking is if someone reads article on the Newslide they will want to pay for a subscription to their website and be able to access all of the articles. I have news for the PG — I will not pay for your liberal, left-leaning web page. I have read the PG for years and have throughly enjoy most of the sports coverage, (I stopped reading PG news articles a long time ago because of the liberal bias.). So not only are you losing me, a loyal reader of the PG sports, but I am not seeing the ads your advertisers pay to post on your site. Especially when I can read about Pittsburgh sports for free on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review site, or any number of other free sites. Because of your website’s pay-wall you have lost me! Goodbye!

I appreciate the slide on those days the paper is not in in my driveway. As a 50 year subscriber since my 3 boys delivered from grade 3 until they each left for college, the PG has been a hallmark for us! I can’t begin to tell you how delivering and the route manager, John Radvan, molded those boys to become the responsible men they are today! I only hope you will never do away with the paper issue, though we don’t miss the inky fingers! Also, many thanks for publishing the crossword, celebrity scramble, etc. for those days there is not a paper issue! You at the PG are appreciated! Thank you! Whether sports, national, local, society, comics—anything, you are the very best! Luisa and Larry Nitowski