{"id":1743,"date":"2009-09-19T22:27:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2009-09-19T22:27:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T05:27:27","slug":"the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"The Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, I saw it mentioned in the print edition of World Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then I saw a Google Alert link to it at the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n

No, no, no! Not the federal budget. The<\/i> Budget.<\/p>\n

We used to “take” the Budget. I bought Ruby a one-year subscription several years ago. She enjoyed using it to catch up on old friends from Bible School days. Maybe I should teach her how to use Facebook as a less-expensive substitute.<\/p>\n

Well, anyway. Here’s a bit from the LA Times piece:<\/p>\n

For the Amish, newspapers are in no danger<\/a><\/p>\n

With online competitors posing no threat, the Budget holds steady, linking communities with news about new silos, tomato blight and neighbors who’ve been kicked by a horse.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The Budget is not your typical newspaper. Since 1890, it has served as the primary communication link among Amish settlements across the country.<\/p>\n

And at a time when papers big and small are struggling amid plummeting circulation and intense online competition, the Budget is holding steady. The vast majority of the paper’s reporters — called scribes — are Amish and Mennonite volunteers, hundreds of men and women who send handwritten dispatches in from rural outposts. Their only payment is a free subscription, worth $42 a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I should see if they need a scribe from Yoder, Oregon. Maybe I could pen a weekly report as a handwritten dispatch from our rural outpost. That’d be pretty neat.<\/p>\n

“This is news we care about, and it comes fast enough for us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That sounds kinda revolutionary these days.<\/p>\n

(OK, OK — they do<\/i> have a Web site: The Budget<\/a>.) \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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