Daily newspaper ?

IKE

IKE

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Oklahoma....U.S.A.
Do you still get a daily newspaper ?

We have two morning daily papers delivered seven days a week.......the local town paper and the bigger OKC paper and between the two it runs us $151.43 per month.

If it were just me I wouldn't take either one and I never read them but mama has always enjoyed sitting on the couch after supper in the evenings and reading both papers cover to cover and you know what they say, "happy wife happy life". :)

Edit to add:.....I've had a home desktop computer since the early 90's and although I've offered several times to show her she has absolutely zero interest in the computer and doesn't even know how to start it up so that rules out her reading the papers online.
 

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We get the Sunday paper for free...its a shame how the newspapers have gone down...mostly nothing in it but a page of comics, a bunch of ads and a decent store coupon once in a while. Oh well, that's progress.
 
I get home delivery of our local daily paper,Bflo News 7 days/wk, if there is interesting local article,I mail it to my brother{he lives in CT} I don't bother reading the national section since most of the bylines are from NYT which I already read
I get home delivery of NYT Mon-Fri as well
 
Since we moved to our new town, I figured I could read the online local paper for free like I did in AZ. Nope. You have to subscribe. If I'd opt for the delivery version, it's $26/month including the Sunday paper. If I subscribed online, it's $20/month. I'm not sure I want to shell out any more of our pension/SS money for a newspaper.

I looked back in my records I kept from when we lived in PA almost 9 years ago and I paid $9.80/month for the newspaper to be delivered.

I don't think there's any news I care to read about. I can see the headlines online and read the obituary's. I check every day to see if my name is listed...haha. So far, I haven't seen it :)
 
Wontactmyage said:
We also stopped the paper a few years ago. It was getting thin on local/state news.
It’s become too top heavy on “gloom and doom” and rhetoric. I can get those things all day from the Internet.
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I forgot to add another reason we stopped was that our rural delivery was sketchy at best and of course winter was well…you can guess. The paper had been a evening paper but for some reason they decided to change and become an early morning paper. A classic scenario of city mouse, country mouse. Our neighbor decided to get a paper after we stopped and he is getting a paper not in our county and they mail it to him.
 
Read all news online for free....2 of our newspapers The Guardian and the Telegraph are subscription... but otherwise all other newspapers are free to access online.

That said.. I used to presume the content of the Daily mail for example was what was available online to us.. and one day I picked up a copy of the DM at the aiport, they're free to read and take on board.. and discovered that the content is much more varied and in-depth in a hard copy than it is online...
 
There never was a "daily" newspaper where I live. It comes out weekly on Wednesday. Nothing really in it except what's happening in our county and lots of ads.

If I want to read news, I do it online.
 
For 20 years I used to get the daily newspaper. But I can't walk far, and I have a long driveway, so getting the paper was a challenge- I had to drive. Then there's what to do with the paper. In 2002, you had to haul it to the recycling the town's bins. And I'm a Democrat, and my local paper was definitely a Republican paper. There was front page pics of R. candidates, and R officials, but never any Democratic ones. You would have never known that any D. represented our area. Plus, the newspaper was a local one, and over time, it got smaller and smaller, thinner and thinner, but the price was getting bigger. It just wasn't worth it anymore.
 
Gemma said:
There never was a "daily" newspaper where I live. It comes out weekly on Wednesday. Nothing really in it except what's happening in our county and lots of ads.

If I want to read news, I do it online.
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WE had that local free newspaper too... all the kids by the time they reached teens would get a job delivering them once a week. My dd did it at 13 and I would walk around with her. It just gave the news and events for the local area and was free... but now that's only available online
 
Growing up we always had a daily newspaper delivered. Since the computer arrived I get all the news online. I can even enlarge the print so I don't even need my reading glasses.
 
I haven't subscribed to an actual paper newspaper in decades. My $1 for six months (not a dollar a month) digital subscription for one of the local papers just expired. I hardly ever read it, so I'm sure not going to pay $9,99 a month to continue. There are so many news apps available. All those papers pile up and just cause clutter, although they can and should be recycled.
 
I remember my parents subscribed to both the morning and evening hometown papers and read both front to back daily. Now there is only one morning paper - not much news but I still keep a subscription for home delivery which allows me to read it online. I give the print version to my neighbor who does not have internet. I also have a digital subscription for the New York Times ($4/mo) and the Washington Post ($4/mo). I usually just browse those two but will keep a subscription as long as they keep giving me deals.
 
The local paper used to be fat, free & home delivery. Now it‘s thin, free and I pick it up at a local box. That’s fine because it’s an excuse for a walk. Mostly it’s full of ads. My husband pays for the online Globe & Mail for investment reasons. All the other news sources are online.
 
I have digital subscriptions to the NY Times and Washington Post. I read the NY Post online for free.
 

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