Does anyone still take a paper copy of a newspaper?

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Pecos

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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.
 

I wonder how printed newpapers stay in business. On our street only 2 people take it.

We do get a weekly paper, it's free, dropped off at a location if you want to pick it up. It contains the store shopping flyers but notice now that a lot have dropped their advertising in it. Matter of time before that stops too.
 
At one time, the Columbian (Vancouver newspaper) was given out free to a few centers which had a large group of seniors. When the Oregonian (Portland OR rag) bought it all freebies disappeared.

Now you can choose $10 digital, digital and Sunday only $25, digital and delivery (6 days no Monday edition) ) $35

I liked The Columbian as it was really "Middle of road" reporting, good & bad. Now it's slanting left. Just like our city council. I suspect in 10 years, you won't tell the difference between these two cities.
 

I miss the days of the paper ones, but the "news" in them, became less and less new. Always had heard it all, by then.
And then the prices kept climbing and climbing.
Too much to pay, even for the comics! ;) :giggle:

I do look out for the small local issues, that are still free, to read articles of very local interest. But they are a weekly thing, if they turn up at all. Not at all like those newspapers of old!
And they don't provide nearly enough pages, for any serious household or pet-related purposes, either!:cry::sneaky::LOL:
 
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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.
 
For years I took the KC Star...then service got bad here, and expenses went up, so started just reading it online, then they
decided to charge for online copy, so I just dropped it...was
only getting it for tv guide the paper carried...now get that online free.....
 
I pick up a free local weekly paper. I read national and international news online.
 
Read paper newspapers daily growing up and then into my twenties before realizing much like a workweek evening tv habit, it was taking up my time in ways I could make better use of long term. Although it is generally useful to keep abreast of issues of concern and interest in society and culture, I personally, like a twig of flotsam floating down the immense Mississippi River, have never been in an effective position to affect this world. Today as an Internet person offering terse opinions, is about as far as that goes. The above noted, I believe all that reading has been a significant advantage to my thinking brain versus what those today absorb via media on small awkward display devices. Sad what has happened to the journalist profession.
 
oldaunt said:
I wish I had a delivery. Its hard to find birdcage liners.
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So I'm not the only one! I buy the local newspaper and then I use it to line my bird cages. The birds seem to enjoy looking at the coloured pictures.
Today is Sunday so I'm planning to buy a Sunday paper, but it will take all week to read it. I like to read people's opinions on the week's events.
 
Youngest son brings me a newspaper once a week on a Saturday. I don't read it, I like it because it has a section with lots of crosswords and other word games. It also has a TV magazine which I don't really need but quite like reading some of the articles about forthcoming shows etc.
 
I do no longer subscribe to any of them. I read the news on line from different sources.
We live in a small town adjacent to two major cities.
Our local paper is not very interesting as nothing much is going on around here. The other two talk mostly about problems of overpopulation, crime, and road accidents.
It is too depressing!
 

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