Years of Mercury News exposure has left me dumb. 🙁
It was such a pleasure to be reading the Times of India for 6 weeks. The TOI contains so much informative material that it is easy to get lost for 2 hours in the newspaper (Now that they supply the Mumbai Mirror free this is all the more true).
On the other hand the Mercury News hardly offers any intelligent insights and very less coverage of the international arena.
Maybe Mumbai/India has just that many more news stories or that many more scandals. :-). But I definitely miss reading the paper form of TOI.
For the time being I am back to Mercury News and slowly draining whatever intelligence I had gained from the TOI.
Agree that by far the new coverage is US is very bad, but lately I felt that the Times of India had also become more like a tabloid newspaper. DNA (Daily News Analysis) had better articles or so I felt in my last trip.