Do You Still Subscribe to the Newspaper?

nightwriter

nightwriter

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Everyone knows newspapers are on the way out. My local one (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) is only a few sheets thick (except Sundays). I stopped subscribing. I pick up Sunday's paper at a nearby grocery store for the coupons and ads. Do any of you still subscribe to the paper or do you get most of your (local) news online?
 

We still get the paper delivered, my husband like to read it with his morning cup of coffee. :coffee: They are on the way out though, and get thinner year by year.
 
No newspaper for me. It's just more garbage and I do travel a lot so I either have to put it on hold or bother a neighbor to get it for me so they're not all piling up and telling everyone that I'm not home and you can rob me. :)It's enough to put a hold on my mail.I get more than enough news online...too much!!
 

most news I want to read I get via rss feeds. The local rag only comes out once a week and if I have a need I will buy it then.
 
I buy a daily newspaper most days as I like to do the crossword puzzles and it's not the same on line, also on Saturdays we get a weeks TV guide, it's a hard habit to break !
 
I agree. I would buy my local paper if it offered more/better content than I can find online. And obviously online news or TV news is up-to-the-minute reporting versus getting the news a day late.
 
I buy one newspaper a week and that is the Saturday one, purely for the TV guide, crossword puzzle and word games. I don't actually read the paper.
 
Yeah, I still get the paper every day. I'm a Democrat, and the paper is a "Fox" type of paper, so I ignore parts. Since my trash co. recycles, getting rid of the papers isn't a hassle anymore. I do like having something in my hands. And I do the puzzles during commercials.
 
I stopped years ago -- the price is crazy . I read my news online. The grocery store has all the same coupons that are in the paper, so I just grab a flyer when I go shopping. I don't miss it one bit.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Yeah, I still get the paper every day. I'm a Democrat, and the paper is a "Fox" type of paper, so I ignore parts. Since my trash co. recycles, getting rid of the papers isn't a hassle anymore. I do like having something in my hands. And I do the puzzles during commercials.
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I have recycling also but its still a can that has to be taken to the curb once a week. I'm usually gone for about 2 weeks total every month...sometimes more, sometimes less...so everything adds up for me.
 
The paper we were getting was bought out by the paper we would never get, so we stopped getting any paper except for a local monthly with community news.

The paper that bought out the other was extreme left wing before Fidel Castro was.
 
We get it on Thursday and Sunday,some weird combo they offer cheaper than getting it for the whole weekend. Works out because the food store ads are in the Thursday paper and the coupons in the Sunday paper. Most articles I like to read are about 1/2 page long and at the bottom it says, "to learn more go to www.whatever.com. I hate that.
 
Out little local town publishes a newspaper on Tuesdays. It has mostly just the local news and happenings, and the grocery store ad/coupons. For 50 cents, one clipped coupon usually makes the paper free. The rest of the news we get from TV and Internet.
 
I don't subscribe to any newspaper,instead I buy NYTimes M-Wed,&Fri,USA Today Mon&Fri. I buy them because I like their in depth reporting,been doing daily NYT crossword puzzle over 30 yrs,usually finish Mon,sometimes Tues. I buy our local newspaper,Buffalo News only Sat&Sun to read local news. The rest of the stories in the Sun paper I've read 2-4 days previously in NYT or USA Today. Its unfortunate the Buffalo News isn't locally owned anymore,Warren Buffett bought it yrs ago Sue
 
I quit a few years ago after having subscribed for over 35 years. It kept getting smaller and more expensive every year. I did not think it was worth it. I just watch the news channels.
 
CeeCee said:
No newspaper for me. It's just more garbage and I do travel a lot so I either have to put it on hold or bother a neighbor to get it for me so they're not all piling up and telling everyone that I'm not home and you can rob me. :)It's enough to put a hold on my mail.I get more than enough news online...too much!!
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I'm with you, CeeCee. Our local rag is mostly advertisements anymore and when I did subscribe on and off I couldn't get the delivery person to toss the paper on the porch.....which is exactly four feet from the street (that is, if he delivered the paper in the first place). It would either be laying out in the middle of the street or gone awol. Then if we were going away, I couldn't get him to STOP delivering the paper. Who needs the aggravation? The TV aggravates me enough.
 
I have to have my morning paper.I avoid the obits, but pretty well look through the rest of it.
 
Stopped years ago as the ads are delivered every Wednesday for the grocery stores. Local with national news starts here at 4:30 every morning. I have already read everything online by that time anyway. Price was too much and no recycling near me so I hated throwing them away.
 
I still subscribe to the daily newspaper except on Sundays.
I find a lot of general interesting topics and not just news that's on TV.
I really like to read the paper after breakfast and probably spend an hour reading different articles of local interest.
 
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