The end of the daily paper?

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oldmontana

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We have a daily newspaper that is owned by the LEE corp. After getting it delivered each morning 7 days a week it has gone to 3 days a week and it come in the mail which can be anytime from 11 am to 4pm.

And the kicker is the price we pay is still $399 a year?

Should we cancel the paper?
 

hollydolly said:
Of course... you get all the news online for free..( well free to read)... ...
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Not the same. We like to read the paper while having our breakfast, each having their favorite sections. And the online is not free.
 

Since they didn’t lower the price when they reduced the number of editions, it seems like they’re just hanging on until they finally fold. Is there another paper you could have delivered.
 
My father used to bring home two different papers every day from work; of course, back then a single weekday copy of the Star Ledger cost 7 cents. Today, a weekday copy of my local paper costs $2, and it’s twice that for the Sunday edition despite the fact that such papers are lean and thin. People have gotten shell-shocked over the price, with many deciding it’s not worth it for a static disposable item when extensive updated info is available for free.

The decline in the newspaper empire would probably cause Daily Planet editor Perry White in Superman to expostulate, “Great Caesar’s ghost!”

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I get a daily paper but only five days a week, no paper on Sunday or Monday.
I live alone and enjoy the paper after breakfast but I'm thinking of canceling it because
of the cost. Along with the huge increase in food, gas and everything I feel I need to
cut down on something.
 
Wren said:
I buy a paper every day mainly as I enjoy doing the crosswords and other puzzles, it’s not the same doing it online
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I do some crosswords online. The advantage (if you need it) is the option to check your answer or, if you're totally stuck, to hit 'Reveal'.

Other puzzles I download as PDF, mock up a grid on A4 paper, and solve at my leisure. Haven't actually bought a newspaper for years..
 
I get the Wall Street Journal every morning at 6:00am in my mail box. Monday through Saturday.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Funny, I went on the 6 month special price of 24.99 a month about 8 years ago.
Every time the 6 month is up they try to charge me 42.99.
I call, tell them I don't want to pay the 42.99
They tell me about the 6 month special is over and its now going to the regular rate
I tell them cancel the subscription
They extend the 24.99
Its like a game we do every 6 months for 8 year so far.

Actually you can scan a newspaper page much faster than on-line. Plus, to get complete news, many charge for it online.
 
Fyrefox said:
My father used to bring home two different papers every day from work; of course, back then a single weekday copy of the Star Ledger cost 7 cents. Today, a weekday copy of my local paper costs $2, and it’s twice that for the Sunday edition despite the fact that such papers are lean and thin. People have gotten shell-shocked over the price, with many deciding it’s not worth it for a static disposable item when extensive updated info is available for free.

The decline in the newspaper empire would probably cause Daily Planet editor Perry White in Superman to expostulate, “Great Caesar’s ghost!”

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One of the 2 men who created the Superman comic books worked at the Toronto Star newspaper, before going to the USA. The Daily Planet was based on his time with the Star in Toronto. JImB.
 
I think what it comes down to is whether or not it's worth that $399 *to you.* That would sound like a bargain to some and a rip-off to others. I still have a comp subscription from working at the paper in the past but I rarely open it. I just got curious and checked the rates here... $365 for a year but there's no Monday paper. 📰🗞️
 
I still get the morning paper. I like working the crossword and I appreciate the kid coming to my door everyday at 6:20 with my paper. He’s a good kid and only has 22 customers. I get the paper for the puzzle, to check the sports scores and to help the kid.
 
It's too expensive for me, although I used to enjoy sitting down with the paper feeling the the thing in my hands, and the format of a news paper has an organization that I liked, while the Internet doesn't seem to lend itself to that. Also, the ads in a newspaper were less obtrusive. Sometimes there were ad sections that were even appealing. On the internet, the ads pop up in the middle of what you are trying to read and are annoyingly obtrusive. It was fun to look up the Sunday ads in the ad sections of papers for the sales in places you liked to shop. You could engage the ads on your own without having them slapped in your face.

But the news on the internet happens almost in real time, while the paper reports it the next day although often with more accuracy. If you are looking for confirmation bias, the internet provides tons of that without any fact checking to tarnish your own bias. News papers were the domain of more serious journalism. The internet is more about opinion, and more like getting all your information from those shocking rags on sale in the checkout lines of grocery stores.
 
Our local paper, The Buffalo News which investor, Warren Buffett owned for yrs, sold it to Lee Company 2 yrs ago The daily paper costs $3 ,Sun paper $5. It constantly has production problems,is moving its facilities to Cleveland by the end of this yr, God knows why
I buy it on Thurs&Sat, don't bother reading the national section because the stories I've already read in NYT
 
We get a local paper delivered daily, for only one reason, local news in the county. Sure we can get national and international news on the tube and Internet, but local developments in transportation, power, water district, construction, crime, etc can be important issues in our lives and aren‘t readily available from national sources.
 
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