How do you get your news?

First thing in the mornings I'm online checking international and local news. Especially as I put up links on my own site.

I do watch news on the tv during the day and night also. I guess I am a tiny bit of a news hound in general. I don't, however, get much from newspapers except for one local paper which is the only source I can get the news for my own community here.
 

Guess I am a little old fashioned I love reading up the newspapers, do crosswords and puzzles.. what news it doesn`t have I read on line..
from all countries , the newspapers here are recycled and used for paper for school children`s books.. etc , lots of things to be used
for.. making new paper, masking tapes, paper money. model globes, dust masks. and egg cartons. also planting pots for seedlings so many
uses..
 
I get my news online for the most part, but if there is a major news alert, I'll turn the TV on, the only time I read newspapers is our weekly locals.

Warrigal, nice to see you back, I'm glad you had a nice trip.
 
We haven't taken a paper for many years. We listen to the BBC news on the TV/Radio, and I look at it on the Internet as well.
 
I watch the national news early evening and then the local news at night before I go to bed. No news paper for me. Any other news I pick up on the internet.
 
An interesting aside to this... Newspapers survive by guaranteeing circulation to their advertisers... less by subscription.
Many years ago, we learned that the papers are so concerned about the circulation that they are willing to offer great deals.
We get two papers... one local and one from Chicago... they offer specials when our subscription expires... The Chicago paper is delivered 4 days a week for $.50wk. ... and the local paper, daily, for $1.00wk... $85/yr for both.
Those are not advertised rates which are many times those prices.
Checking on-line for subscription rates for your preferred paper, can pay off. The paper itself usually offers specials online, but you can also search for coupons from sites like retailmenot which often are even less.
My favorite on-line paper is the NYT... While mostly free from linked websites, they are becoming more exclusive, and the free content is more limited. Against my better judgement, (since I've never payed for anything on the internet since the early 1990's) i may have to break down and do the on-line subscription.
 
Rainee said:
Guess I am a little old fashioned I love reading up the newspapers, do crosswords and puzzles.. what news it doesn`t have I read on line..
from all countries , the newspapers here are recycled and used for paper for school children`s books.. etc , lots of things to be used
for.. making new paper, masking tapes, paper money. model globes, dust masks. and egg cartons. also planting pots for seedlings so many
uses..
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My husband may be like you. He's always with a newspaper. In his case it's about the news but also the crossword puzzles.
 
Hi Lois,

I use the internet as well, but I feel I have missed a lot. First of all, even growing up, and on through the years, I didn't look at news much. Funny how I always admired people reading newspapers, my friend that is 91 now reads it everyday, still. She has not computer, she has a tv and turns it on news only, and I think some channels she may watch that are real stuff like gardening?? Anyway, I think I am actually addicted to my computer. I think I would go nuts without it, geesh, that seems kinda sick. Well, I think you did a thread on what period of time would you live in if you could, and I am thinking right now, I would go back to about 1900 and start there, at birth. I think people have grown further apart, although when cities started growing big, people started growing further apart I think. I love the old ways of taking some soup to your neighbor, or all folks around coming to help rebuild a barn. You know what I mean;)

Sort of wandered off topic didn't I. Apologies Lois.
 
Our local news SUCKS! Newspaper has slowly died and is terrible. Television is usually about another shooting which is no longer news or bland "happy" crap. Radio tries to cover too much in a couple of seconds so . . . I just absorb facts from the air and make up my own stories.

Did you ever put together a neighborhood newspaper with your friends as a kid? We did: "Smith's Cat Has Kittens" and stuff like that. Fun while it lasted.
 
After reading about the banking on line thread I wondered if others had on line news subscriptions, or just watched the TV news, or listened to the news on the radio?
We have a daily newspaper and two weekly magazines, delivered by a paperboy, actually he's not a boy, he's a pensioner, but it amounts to the same thing.
For all you internet news junkies who can't remember what a newspaper is, tell me, how do you swat a fly with a laptop?
 
Nathan said:
You can buy a flyswatter on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=flyswatter&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
One of these days I'm going to break down and buy an asalt weapon, specifically a Bug-A-Salt gun.

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Wouldn't getting salt all over the place be a problem? :unsure:

I use one of these bug guns...
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So far, I haven't broken any windows with it.
 
I still take the local paper but I have usually read it online before it gets delivered. I told my neighbors they were welcome to take my paper and read it since it will go directly to the recycle bin. They don't have internet and only take the weekend paper delivery so I was happy to share. While having coffee and breakfast I typically read the local paper and check out Apple News app. on my iPad. Apple News has headlines from the NYTimes, Washington Post and other major city newspapers. If one wants to read more than the headline blurb you can click through and read the full story. I sometimes read news magazines (Time, etc.) on Apple News as well. I watch the national news (ABC) in the evening and the local news for the weather forecast mainly. I once watched MSNBC or CNN most of the day but really grew tired of all the political stuff and how negative the reports were so I seldom have those channels on anymore. Seems I feel a lot less stressed than I did when I watched them more often.
 
I get the Washington Post (old-fashioned, paper version) delivered every morning, and throughout the day I tune in to CNN, MSNBC, and some of the networks. And sometimes I get news online.
 
Start the day with ipad news. CBC, Global, local, & an internet-only small town BC news site. The last often has details the big guys don’t. Then first 15 minutes of Global news at noon. We’ve started recording a variety of news coverage from 5-7. Can zip through most of it in about half an hour, there’s so much repetition.

If I want to know the real nitty gritty here, I check on FB. The newspapers would never report all the little thefts, etc that go on.
 

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