Rant #2,430: Here Comes the Sun

I read a lot of newspapers during the day, or I at least glance at many newspapers over the course of the day.

First and foremost is Newsday, our local Long Island newspaper, which is the only game in town if you live on the Island. It has no competitors, so what you get is what they have to say. You have to make up your own mind whether you go with them or not, but it is a good, quick read in the morning.

Then over the course of the day, I glance online at several newspapers, and it has to be a newspaper where I can do what I need to do and then move on.

I pretty much focus on one story that captivates me, read it top to bottom, and then move onto something else.

Thus, I glance at several online periodicals that look at the Jewish experience, including the Jerusalem Post and a few other such newspapers.

If you want a fast read that really doesn't tell you much of anything, you only have to go to the New York tabloids, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, to not get to the gist of the story, but more often to keep abreast of various stories, and I do mean literally abreast. The Post, in particular, focuses much of its online coverage on its own breast obsession, and if you want a fast paced fun read in between the real news that is out there, you just have to at least glance at The Breast ... err ... The Post each and every day.

Then at times, I want to see some other newspapers from around the world, and if you want the lightest read you can possibly have, I would definitely suggest The Sun (https://www.thesun.co.uk/), the British equivalent of The Post/Yahoo News/The National Enquirer all mixed into one, and it offers it with the British standpoint, which makes it even more humorous.

Most of its coverage is sexually oriented, grabbing the reader with explosive headlines, such as the photos of past front pages of the actual newspaper that I have posted here.

In today's online edition, as I speak, the top story is certainly one that is being covered internationally, but again, that British bent makes it even more interesting.

Their No. 1 news item at this moment is: "One Fly With Me: Prince Andrew Was On Board Jet With Paedo Epstein and 'Sex Slave" Says Pilot."

The headline says it all, doesn't it?

So creative, so jarring, and so much fun to read.

Of course, probably a major portion of the publication's home page has to do with show biz/sports types and what they are doing to elevate the world, including full coverage of the likes of Miley Cyrus, Gemma Collins, Katie Price (who the last two are I have no idea at all), intense coverage of some soccer star who complained of heartburn who ended up dropping dead the day after proposing to his girlfriend, and another story about actress "Emma Watson and 'Harry Potter's' Draco Malfoy Spark Dating Rumours With Intimate Pic."

Yes, there is some real news covered on The Sun's front page, but you really have to search for it in between all the show biz stuff.

This makes the newspaper a fun read, and a quick read if you have the time.

With all this talk about "fake news" The Sun brings you "real" news, or at least what it deems "real" news, or at least what they think their readership wants to read.

"My Girls Found Their Sister, 21, Dead In the Bath ... I'm Haunted By Their Screams."

Yes, that about says it all.

And I just love the headlines, don't you?