Do you still get a newspaper?

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I still do. My subscription entitles me to read it online, but I do like the paper part. It's a real, physical thing. I live in Northeastern PA. Our winters used to be bad, but the paper guy has never missed a day. And since recycling has been made so easy, it's no problem.
 

Not since my parrot left. ;)

I just miss the Sunday papers with all the ad inserts. When I used to stimulate the economy, I liked grabbing all the ads early on Sunday and planning my economic hurricane for the day.

But now that I'm poor, there's precious little reason to look at those ads, unless I'm feeling a bit masochistic.
 
I do. I was a paperboy myself where I grew up and the small town mostly subscribed to the Roanoke Times, which I delivered to my surrounding areas. (it was $.40 per week then), and so, now that I live here, I can't bear the thought of not getting it.

Each morning, I drink my coffee, work the sudoku and crossword puzzles, and check the obituaries first, then the sports, then the local news. However, I depend upon TV news for the national stories because most of the time I already know the national news that is in the morning paper (which usually comes by 5:30 am)
 

YES. I like to catch up on things I might have missed via radio/TV, replays of sport events etc.
I also get 3 crossword puzzles to do if I care to.

I always check the obits; If someone I know dies, I want to know about it.

Also I use a couple of pages, rolled up, to spank the dog.
 
No, our local paper newspaper is only available Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.

I scan the daily online version, check the obituaries, local news, etc...

I buy the Sunday newspaper a couple of times a year, for old times sake, at the corner store. When I was young I remember stopping at the Italian bakery for a loaf of warm Italian bread and then swinging around the corner to the newspaper man to grab a four star final edition of the Sunday morning paper just after the local saloons closed on Saturday night. A late/early breakfast and off to bed! Life in the city was different back then, I could run faster!!!
 
The only daily in this area is essentially a propaganda sheet for the wrong political party. We don't read it. It has been that way for decades even before they changed the name of it.
 
Yes.......two 7 days a week.

Mama likes to read the paper so we get the local paper along with the big city paper that's just a few miles up the road.
 
I usually will pick up the Sunday Edition of the Rochester "Democrat & Chronicle". Rochester is 70 miles West of me, but if we need a city that's the one we choose. I like all the flyers, just because, and the feature articles are good. The paper designated as the counties "Official" paper (Where public notices, new laws and such are required to be printed),is heavy on local politics and school sports, any real reporting other than transcribing the police blotter is quite non existant.
 
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Look how internet ads have grown. A interesting stat US advertisers spent 86 billion on internet ads, versus 71 billion for TV and 33 billion for print newspapers and magazines combined.

Newspapers are and have been in trouble for years...I do not see that to change.
 
In order for them to survive they really need to eliminate the cost of printing, delivery and overhead associated with publishing a traditional newspaper.

I think it will get to the point where newspapers begin offering free eReaders to subscribers in an attempt to wean them away from the traditional newspaper.

“Newspapers cannot be defined by the second word—paper. They’ve got to be defined by the first word—news.” - Arthur Sulzberg, Jr.
 
I haven't gotten a newspaper in a long time (years). By the time "news" hits the printed paper, it's already old news compared to what you can access almost immediately on the net. Besides, it's just more paper piling up, and something else to have to deal with. I can also see the local paper on the net if I choose to. The printed paper has gotten "skinnier" and more expensive, anyway.
 
I buy a newspaper most days, apart from Sunday when it's mainly sport reports, gardening and cooking advice, I enjoy the crossword puzzles and don't like doing them online, Saturday there is a good TV guide for the week ahead

i suppose it's a habit really, as I could get the news and TV guide online
 
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