Jordanian daily newspapers

I don't understand why the Jordanian daily newspapers stop printing during the 4 --day holiday celebrating the grand festival of sacrifice, it is as if life come to a stand still on the morning of the Eid, it is as if there are no more road accidents to report about, no people stranded in a snow storm, no local news about the Eid, no regional news like the execution of Saddam Hussein, the pilgrimage's [Haj] season, no international news to show what is happening in the world.

I'm not sure who decides that the Jordanian dailies stop printing for four days on the row, whomever it may be it certainly is a very unwise decision. It isn't like one of the papers would take a different route and decides to continue printing, they all come to a screeching halt altogether. It is as if the decision was collectively made amongst all of the editors combined, or perhaps the Jordan Press association orders them not to print.

I really don't know what to think of it all of what I'm saying is that I'm mad as hell, and not just from this Eid but from every Eid. What is the person supposed to do in terms of news from Jordan! I admit it I'm a hard core news junkie, I must read every Jordanian newspaper every day of the week. I start with Alghad, then I go to the Jordan times, Alrai, alarab alyoum, Al Dustoor, and then I finish my reading by going to the Jordan information center website to see if there is any thing that I may have missed in them other papers that I just finished reading.

Now you can see my plight, since last Saturday morning I feel like there was something precious that got lost from me, and the more I think about it the more that I realize that in fact I haven't lost anything and all there is--is that I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms due to the fact that the Jordanian daily newspapers aren't getting printed.

I hope that someone wise up and notice that perhaps there are quite few Jordanian citizens around the world that are news junkie just like me, and they would very much appreciate it if they would give up that habit of not printing newspapers during the Eid holiday we would be in a much better shape and mood; and we would treat the people around us with a much more gentler and kinder attitude since we will not be suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

The editors should seize the opportunity and use the Eid holiday days to do more advertising about things people can do during the Eid, about places that will be offering discounts after the Eid holiday, about the weather, the airline schedule, about what to do in case of emergency and so on and so forth. I'm sure that they don't need somebody like me to tell them what to put on the pages of their newspapers, all I'm saying is that I wish that they would find a reason or two on why they should continue printing during the holiday. The Jordan Times for instance took two holidays not just one, they didn't print during the Christmas holiday and they didn't print during the grand festival of sacrifice holiday. That is a double whammy to say the least.
I don't know about any body's else but I'll continue with my quest to fight for my right to read the news coming out of Jordan during the Muslim as well as during the Christian holidays, I have no idea if my wish will ever materialize but in the event that during the 2007 holiday season the newspapers continue with their usual abstention, so will I continue with my protest to have them printed.