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W<\/span>hile we know that newspapers are slowly disappearing from American life, when did they start disappearing from hotels?\u00a0<\/p>\n Maybe this is going to be a gradual withdrawal, which some people use for\u00a0treating addiction. And I’m definitely hooked on newspapers.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9mZWF0dXJlZF9pbWFnZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7fX0=@” alt=”Edgy Cartoon” title_text=”Kitchen Confidential” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ _dynamic_attributes=”src” width=”80%” width_tablet=”93%” width_phone=”95%” width_last_edited=”on|phone” max_width=”95%” max_width_tablet=”” max_width_phone=”” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” module_alignment=”center” border_width_all=”1px” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ text_font=”Georgia||on||||||” text_font_size=”14px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”-16px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n All the news that won’t fit to print<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Over the past few years, almost none of the hotels I\u2019ve stayed in had newspapers in their gift shops (much less delivered to my door in the morning). Some of these hotels were multi-starred, some were simply convenient and the best you could say about some were that they were \u201cclean.\u201d This is the ambidextrous adjective we also like to deploy for uninteresting comedy acts and barely sensate seniors.<\/p>\n Logic would have you believing that the smaller inns were the first to quit bringing in newspapers. But I\u2019ve experienced this at the Long Beach Airport Holiday Inn (mid-size and supposedly oriented to business travelers, who may just want to be aware of what’s happening in the world), Seascape Resort in Aptos, the Westin on the Sacramento River here in Sacramento, and the rock-and-roll favorite Joshua Tree, next door to the national park of the same name.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Amazon_Pet_Essentials.jpg” title_text=”Amazon_Pet_Essentials” url=”https:\/\/amzn.to\/36u0M1o” url_new_window=”on” align=”center” admin_label=”Amazon – Pet Essentials – Banner” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#eeeeee” custom_padding=”15px|15px|15px|15px|true|true” global_module=”4315″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n I vaguely recall that as a kid, we’d stay at a Travel Lodge on family trips. This is the motel chain with the logo of a bear in a nightshirt, which was supposed to be adorable but scared me, especially when we were staying in off-grid places and you had to walk through a little forest to find the ice machine in the middle of the night\u2014oh, and the night managers always looked like Anthony Perkins). Anyway, even these places had newspapers. For sale, of course, in the lobby, beside the vending machines that served as room service.<\/p>\n I’m guessing that the price of newspaper subscriptions for the hotels rose too high. I can relate. A one-year subscription to my local paper, the Sacramento Bee, which on some days has only eight pages in its front news section, is now so costly I may need a co-signer when it’s time to re-up. I also understand why savvy biz travelers might prefer the kind of rapid news roundup they can summon up on their phones. I feel like a Stone Age relic when I confess I miss the pleasure, when away from home, of leisurely reading an out-of-town newspaper in bed while enjoying piping hot coffee I made for myself in the room’s single-cup dispenser.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n It may be that the hotel industry\u2019s era of extras has simply passed.\u00a0<\/p>\n The usual suspects are COVID, the economy and the supply chain\u2014but those are more recent alibis. The longer lasting one is the lingering death of the service sector\u2019s principal asset: service.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Adsense Horizontal” _builder_version=”4.10.7″ width=”90%” width_tablet=”90%” width_phone=”” width_last_edited=”on|desktop” max_width=”90%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”|0px||0px|false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||0px|false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_module=”1433″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]