A few years ago, https://www.metafilter.com/47404/Trust-Cancels-Fear I had the opportunity to work for a newspaper, and I am mighty glad that I did. Often times, what is reported as the news is not the newest information available. Sometimes it's a few days old. In local or regional newspaper, anyway, what makes the front page often has nothing at all to do with what is the most important news. Sometimes it has to do with which reporter has not had front page news in a while, or which "news" items received the best photographic coverage. It really was discouraging to learn how a newspaper is organized and created. And because of that knowledge, I have a difficult time watching both local and national news shows on television. How much of that same decision making process is used when they are creating the TV news? Quite a bit, I am certain. A few days ago, I received a quick telephone call at home by some local survey company. I don't know for which company or political organization they might have been collecting information. I do not often get such calls, though, and I did respond. The questions asked were about news coverage. I admitted to being overwhelmed by news coverage. But I also admitted that I am responsible for making myself stressed by the news, because I refuse to just rely on one or two news sources. In order to be well-informed about "news" I insist on reading the papers, watching the TV and searching the Internet about items which interest me. I do not just visit TV shows or web sites that agree with my own point of view. Instead, I watch shows and visit sites known for having opposing views as well. Only by doing that can I be assured that I really am getting a balanced view of the world and its news.

The medium of newspapers also works wonders in unclaimed property search for those people who live in remote areas and don’t have an access to facilities like television or internet. Aside from being helpful for people residing in remote areas, newspapers are also a good option in unclaimed money searches for senior citizens. Most of these senior citizens are not comfortable with the use of internet or are incapable of visiting the State Comptrollers office and thus for them newspaper listings does the job. In newspapers, the list published is carefully scrutinized and can also be referred to anytime, which increases the scope of finding long lost owners of any unclaimed property in a given county. The lists published does not only contain the names of unclaimed money owners but it also provides information and details regarding various offices that can be contacted in case of any query or claim of lost property.

Information regarding different websites that contain large chunk of databases of unclaimed properties and money are also provided in different newspapers. These help in further refinement of unclaimed property searches through the medium of the internet. The help of newspapers to find unclaimed property is not only taken by the government on national level, but it has been divided into smaller sections by involving the local newspapers in the process. Various states newspapers publish list of unclaimed property owners on a regular basis, to make sure that they don’t miss a single change of finding them. Major states that provide these listings not only in state newspapers but also in many of its local newspapers include Texas, Maryland, Connecticut, and Colorado. There are many different ways the government is trying to reach out to the public about unclaimed money. The newspapers have proven to be a good method in reaching out to certain demographics.

In the earlier days of this publication there was a section called E-commerce Corner, a separate portion of the news dedicated to reporting - apart from "real" retail news - the latest trends in the growing world of internet sales. 3.9 billion online in May". 34 billion, according to Forrester, which back then sounded like real money. 210-220 billion: "online shopping has shown no signs of slowing down. Other tidbits from the July 2001 E-Commerce Corner: "53 internet companies closed in June, bringing the total number of dot-com sector companies to shutter over the past year and a half to 555 or more". Remember those heady times? Also: "Amazon.com has halted free shipping on multiple orders of books, compact discs, videos, and digital video discs after a two-week promotion that…was a test run". It’s almost quaint, isn’t it? I don’t recall exactly when, but in one of several KeyPoints redesigns over the next decade-plus, I eliminated the separate e-commerce section.