The Daily Print Newspaper: A Dying Breed?

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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I dont think so,according to the latest Gallop poll.

Americans have low confidence in three major forms of news media, with TV news receiving the lowest confidence rating, at 18%. Americans' confidence in news from the Internet is at 19%, while 22% express confidence in newspapers.
I'd rather read my newspaper then watch and listen to the network and cable news anchors,reporters,etc.
For 3-4 days somehow they never seem to stop talking about a topic till its actually dead.

DAMMIT!! that kid miss the front door with my paper....again
 

You will always need something to wrap the fish in, or spread on the floor before you paint. :) ....then there's the bottom of the bird cage.:)
 

It's going to go the way of gas lights, I fear, along with land lines.

There's something about holding an actual newspaper and reading it at leisure. Same thing with real books.

Granted, you can eat an ice cream cone while reading a book (or a newspaper) on your Kindle, but it's just not the same. And the advertising inserts are a whole lot more interesting than the advertising on the web that shows up in online newspapers.
 
We stopped getting a newspaper a few years ago, the last straw was when they deleted the TV Guide section on Sundays, it was the only part I trusted to not be biased hard left. I generally get my news on the internet from a mix of right and left leaning sources. Had to learn to discriminate between real news and pseudo-blogs on the net. The wife watches the local TV news and gets very little actual news unless she really is interested in a house fire or police chase three states away or the latest pet for adoption at the pound, I call the local evening news the scratch and giggle hour.
 
I have to admit I read the funnies first. If they could get away with it, I think they would scrap them.
 
We still get one daily, and have our own newpaper boy bring it into our living room. The paper keeps getting smaller and smaller (but the price keeps getting higher :mad:), we often call it a newsletter.


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One of my favorite childhood memories was seeing my dad, on a Sunday, sitting in his favorite chair, reading The Wichita Eagle-Beacon... I learned to read long before I was 5 years old, sitting on his lap and he would help me read the funnies. So by the time I got to 1st grade (no kintergarden then) I was bored to tears reading "Fun With Dick and Jane".. :)
The yearly price for the Denver Post now keeps going up and up and up... but to me, a laptop or a tablet just doesn't take the place of sitting there relaxing with a newspaper... Besides you can't swat flies with your laptop. :)
 
We no longer subscribe but my dad still likes to get his exercise and walk to the newspaper stand. One of my early childhood memories is impressing my dad by reading out loud from the newspaper when I was 5. I don't know what I was reading but he discovered then that I did. From the day on he would hand me the funnies and we would both sit at the table and read together. Newspaper print has a place in my heart that no I-pad or Kindle can replace.
 
One of my early childhood memories is getting "smacked"with a rolled up newspaper.

"but..but Daddy it wasnt me that broke it, it was Brad"
 
RadishRose said:
My parents used to "pick up the papers" on Sunday after church... these included our local paper and two New York papers. Oh the funnies I enjoyed as a kid!
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There used to be an expression we used as the group was breaking up: "See ya in the funny papers!" :)

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It sounds like your papers were produced by Gannett. They removed the TV section in our paper as well. I didn't use it much, but it was nice to have when I did have those moments.
 
We haven't bothered to take a newspaper for about 30 years I don't think. The BBC news on radio, TV or on-line does it for us.
 
I remember devouring the sports section each morning, especially during the baseball season, reading each box score and replaying each game in my mind. Each Sunday was a special treat because the stats of every player was listed on that day. Now all that information is at my fingertips as it happens. Ironic since I don't follow baseball as much as I did when I was a kid. Sometimes I wonder if the game has lost some of it's charm on me because all of that information is available so easily and doesn't seem as mysterious as it did when I had to wait the next day to get the scores from the night before.
 

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