Does anyone still take a paper copy of a newspaper?

We have a very good small town newspaper and I do subscribe. It covers a two county area and publishes five days a week.
It does a good job of balanced coverage of local issues. And a great job of letting readers know of all upcoming events and opportunities for entertainment and things to do. It has comics and puzzles, human interest stories.
Since I’ve lived here all my life, the obituary section is important to me as I likely know someone listed (unfortunately).
 

Pecos said:
Has anyone else dropped their paper delivery?
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Had to when we moved to our mountain cabin
Missed the NYT crossword
and the sunday paper
and the actual paper....for starting a fire in the wood stove

Thought about starting it up again when we moved to town
Found out I don't miss it as much as I would the money
No longer worth it to me
 
When we moved last year from AZ to PA, I started getting the newspaper again after so many years of not knowing what was going on in the area we lived in. Honestly...I didn't WANT to know what was going on when we lived in AZ. It was a very much politically run newspaper there and it was so full of misinformation and lies, I couldn't see spending money to just get upset. The small town we live in is so different (and that's one of the reasons we came back to this area...we didn't fit in in AZ) and there's so many positive events going on here that I get the paper to keep informed :)
 
I used to like to get the newspaper called The Plain Dealer which is the Cleveland area newspaper. I recall when it was a really thick publishing. I also used it to put under my birds' playpen. I remember how my Lucy bird used to tear it to shreds for her entertainment pleasure! She was an adorable albino parakeet.

After many newspaper sections became sparse and the newspaper price went way up I decided to cancel it. There wasn't anything worthwhile left to read.

I had a pile of newspapers I used up and have no more now.
 
Pecos said:
When we lived outside of the Washington DC area, I always took the local newspaper. Then when I retired from the Navy and joined the civilian workforce, I added the Wall Street Journal.

In 1995, we moved down to South Carolina, and I started taking the local paper immediately. I dropped the Wall Street Journal and picked up the Sunday Edition of The New York Times. Part of my reasoning was that I needed paper to line my cat's litter box, and the New York Times (like the Wall Street Journal) has an abundance of paper. My kitty liked it.

Eventually, I dropped the times after Kaley crossed the Rainbow bridge, but I continued to take the local paper.

Over time the local paper has turned itself into a "political rag."

Coverage continued to be pretty good for the Golf Community, the Horse Community, and High School Sports. I don't care about any of that.

Then delivery got to be pretty spotty, letters to the editor became nauseating, and they jacked up the price. But the thing that finally got to me was when they decided to cut back on the ink and the print became so faint that I had trouble reading it. This really irritated me, and they hit the comic page especially hard. I took that personally.

I am very accustomed to reading a paper newspaper with breakfast, but I am an 80 old man and I need my comics. Humor is hard to come by these days, so I dropped my newspaper delivery for the first time in my life.

I am still getting adjusted to this "lifestyle" change. I have started reading another newspaper online, but it is just not the same.

Has anyone else dropped their paper delivery? I seemed to be the last one on this street who was still getting home delivery.
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There are still a lot of people in my neighborhood, mostly seniors, who get the newspaper delivered. We are one of them and have been having the local paper delivered for decades. This year when our subscription runs out, we are not renewing. I just brought our paper in from the driveway. We like to spread the paper out on the kitchen table when eating king crab legs or preparing meals. Folding it up makes easy clean up.

Delivery has been so poor in the past couple of years, nothing like it used to be. In past years, we were really impressed with the service, and received a paper even on days when we had a snowstorm, although it might have come late. Now, they keep jacking up the prices to ridiculous amounts, the paper is shrinking both in size and content, lots of ads, not quality news coverage anymore, the whole company was taken over by different people some years back, and has gone downhill. Also, I call it our newsletter, that's how thin it is.

Delivery has become so unreliable, that my husband, who is the one who reads the paper every day, bought a small laptop and now reads it online. He doesn't mind too much, he said in the paper the articles would always continue on other different pages, but online he can read the entire article without interruption. We will pay only for the digital version once our subscription runs out.
 
Llynn said:
Local area daily used to be seven days a week. Now it only puts out three issues weekly: Tues, Thurs, and Sat. They cut most of their staff and grocery store copies are over $2 per copy. I know of nobody who subscribes. Stores no longer run their adds in the paper.
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On Wednesdays, the supermarket ads come in our paper.
 
I do not get a paper newspaper, but I have thought about it for the comics. The way the news comes out instantly now on television or the internet or the phone by the time I'd read it in the newspaper it would be "Old News".
 
i used to buy it every day …..and really enjoyed reading it from front to last page ,
but can’t find the time now…..
I will get it in the summer when I can sit outside and read it …..I will find time then !!
 
No, I have not had a paper in years. I used to drink a cup of coffee and read the paper early in the morning prior to starting work. The papers got so bad and so political it just was not worth it, especially after the raised the prices through the roof. On top of that the WSJ has completely priced itself out of its worth! Nothing they print is worth the price and it all is available online free of charge. What are they thinking?
 
I get home delivery of NYTimes Mon-Fri,Sun our local paper, Buffalo News for many many years was locally owned,then it was bought by Warren Buffett,he had it for maybe 15 yrs, then sold it 4 yrs ago to Lee Company The News has gone downhill ever since, was just announced a couple weeks ago its moving to Cleveland Ohio at end of the year. I have digital copy of both like to have the paper in my hand
 
We get the WSJ…however it is not being delivered in the location I spend most of my time. I love that paper and feel it gives me a much clearer idea of world events. Online is so distilled it sometimes seems to reflect more the publishers own opinions rather than a “just the facts mam” attitude. It is expensive…and sometimes I get quite a pile before I let them go.
 
Pecos said:
When we lived outside of the Washington DC area, I always took the local newspaper. Then when I retired from the Navy and joined the civilian workforce, I added the Wall Street Journal.

In 1995, we moved down to South Carolina, and I started taking the local paper immediately. I dropped the Wall Street Journal and picked up the Sunday Edition of The New York Times. Part of my reasoning was that I needed paper to line my cat's litter box, and the New York Times (like the Wall Street Journal) has an abundance of paper. My kitty liked it.

Eventually, I dropped the times after Kaley crossed the Rainbow bridge, but I continued to take the local paper.

Over time the local paper has turned itself into a "political rag."

Coverage continued to be pretty good for the Golf Community, the Horse Community, and High School Sports. I don't care about any of that.

Then delivery got to be pretty spotty, letters to the editor became nauseating, and they jacked up the price. But the thing that finally got to me was when they decided to cut back on the ink and the print became so faint that I had trouble reading it. This really irritated me, and they hit the comic page especially hard. I took that personally.

I am very accustomed to reading a paper newspaper with breakfast, but I am an 80 old man and I need my comics. Humor is hard to come by these days, so I dropped my newspaper delivery for the first time in my life.

I am still getting adjusted to this "lifestyle" change. I have started reading another newspaper online, but it is just not the same.

Has anyone else dropped their paper delivery? I seemed to be the last one on this street who was still getting home delivery.
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I have not bought a paper in years. Just my mobile seems enough.
 
We have two local newspapers. I subscribed to both at times, but settled on only one because it caries more local news. I'll read it front to back and run into things I would never have known otherwise, since TV news only gives small bites of the story and has a limit on time. There is something about the ritual of going though the paper after so many years of doing so. I would miss it otherwise. I'll read a section at a time with a break in between otherwise I tend to rush and miss something.

I don't subscribe to the daily editions but just Saturday and Sunday.
 
Monday to Saturday, mainly for the crosswords, I used
to get 2 when I was working. lots of time to read them
there, only one a day now though.

Mike.
 
Used to get the Sunday paper only, but stopped that about 5 yrs ago.
Now, I can just read the obits online.

And, I get all the fast food coupons and store ads in the mail
So, I'm good.
 
Haven't taken a paper since our parrot died and we got rid of her cage.:sneaky:
 

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