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DainBramaged

(39,191 posts)
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:49 AM Apr 2013

When was the last time you bought a newspaper?

Just wondering







29 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Time expired
this week
17 (59%)
this month
2 (7%)
this year
0 (0%)
I can't remember
9 (31%)
kittehs don't need no stinking newspapers
1 (3%)
I'm not happy with the questions so I'll make my own so there
0 (0%)
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When was the last time you bought a newspaper? (Original Post) DainBramaged Apr 2013 OP
You left out the option of "I subscribe to a daily newspaper." MineralMan Apr 2013 #1
me too n/t StrayKat Apr 2013 #2
Likewise zipplewrath Apr 2013 #5
So do I. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2013 #7
I do as well. GentryDixon Apr 2013 #10
Had a subscription for twenty+ years Rowdyboy Apr 2013 #11
me too. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #14
Yup DinahMoeHum Apr 2013 #19
Yep. The real answer is not "This week" but This Morning. Buzz Clik Apr 2013 #28
Yup. MineralMan Apr 2013 #38
Ditto (two actually) frazzled Apr 2013 #31
+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Apr 2013 #32
Me too. johnp3907 Apr 2013 #46
Yep, in WI newspapers still have popularity HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #48
Keeping up with local issues is very important, and MineralMan Apr 2013 #49
We subscribe to three dailies DollarBillHines Apr 2013 #52
Me too. The Miami Herald comes to my door every day. KaryninMiami Apr 2013 #53
That's good. Even a newspaper that MineralMan Apr 2013 #54
My sole use for newspapers dipsydoodle Apr 2013 #3
I'd like to subscribe but can't justify it. If only to support our local independent brewens Apr 2013 #4
Technically zipplewrath Apr 2013 #6
used to get the sunday NY times delivery up to last year. Sunlei Apr 2013 #8
I read the Washington Post, New York Times, and USA Today every day. 11 Bravo Apr 2013 #9
I did, if you count The Economist ..... oldhippie Apr 2013 #12
What do zombie kittens have to do with this poll? randome Apr 2013 #13
I used to subscribe to two dailies: Chicago Trib and (Chicago) Daily Herald Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2013 #15
I boycott killing trees for printing news that people throw away = sometime in the 20th century Coyotl Apr 2013 #16
Last Century. I use this new thing called "the internet" instead. CBGLuthier Apr 2013 #17
The paper is at my door every morning..................eom mrmpa Apr 2013 #18
I buy two everyday one my wife reads one my MIL reads upaloopa Apr 2013 #20
Sometime last millenia TrogL Apr 2013 #21
When I moved... I needed some cheap packing paper octothorpe Apr 2013 #22
Steve Jobs died...nt Paul E Ester Apr 2013 #23
I prefer not to provide additional money to my local newspaper. MissB Apr 2013 #24
Last time I wanted the classifieds for a day of yard sale shopping. N/T beevul Apr 2013 #25
I subscribe SteveG Apr 2013 #26
I buy four diffferent ones on Friday and the Sunday NY Times graham4anything Apr 2013 #27
August, 2004. RevStPatrick Apr 2013 #29
The Hartford Courant just sends them to me, free. Atman Apr 2013 #30
That's called Berliner size jmowreader Apr 2013 #44
I bought a Street Roots just this week Viva_La_Revolution Apr 2013 #33
Just to start the fire in my wood stove egold2604 Apr 2013 #34
I use them to start the BBQ. Welcome to DU..nt Paul E Ester Apr 2013 #47
Sometime in the Mid-90s supernova Apr 2013 #35
Does the Street Sheet count? If so, once every couple of months n/t arcane1 Apr 2013 #36
it arrives every day grasswire Apr 2013 #37
So if you subscribe and you aren't happy I didn't specifically include your choice DainBramaged Apr 2013 #39
The Washington Post is on my doorstep by 5:30 every morning. FSogol Apr 2013 #40
not recently i am ashamed to say Liberal_in_LA Apr 2013 #41
10 years ago? Rex Apr 2013 #42
Delivered to the house. n/t ChazII Apr 2013 #43
Yesterday. nt Javaman Apr 2013 #45
Two Sundays ago. GoCubsGo Apr 2013 #50
I got a free one the other day in front of my hotel room door! nt MADem Apr 2013 #51
Wasn't sure how to vote Blue_Tires Apr 2013 #55
I subscribe daily. lpbk2713 Apr 2013 #56
A what? boomer55 Apr 2013 #57
I read one every day during my morning Excremeditation slackmaster Apr 2013 #58
daily subscriber & the NYT on Sunday irisblue Apr 2013 #59
I said I don't remember but I do. Cleita Apr 2013 #60
I usually buy the Sunday paper peacefreak Apr 2013 #61

MineralMan

(146,190 posts)
38. Yup.
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 01:11 PM
Apr 2013

Only someone who doesn't read a newspaper would have left that out, I think.

I'm pretty sure that most people who read a newspaper subscribe to it.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
31. Ditto (two actually)
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:26 AM
Apr 2013

New York Times and local paper, though honestly, I hardly read the local paper (I do check it online once a day or so). I do the Sudoku in the local paper, though, over coffee every morning.

MineralMan

(146,190 posts)
49. Keeping up with local issues is very important, and
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 01:40 PM
Apr 2013

local newspapers still do that. I don't read the editorial pages...just the local news. I get national news elsewhere. Wherever you live, your local newspaper is your best source for keeping up with local issues.

KaryninMiami

(3,073 posts)
53. Me too. The Miami Herald comes to my door every day.
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 01:48 PM
Apr 2013

Wish I was a bigger fan of the paper but we are a one paper town here so that's what we get. Otherwise, since I only watch national news, I would have no idea what is going on locally.

MineralMan

(146,190 posts)
54. That's good. Even a newspaper that
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 01:50 PM
Apr 2013

has a right-leaning editorial slant publishes local news that is useful. I just ignore the editorial stuff and read for factual information. For local news there's no better source than the newspaper in the local area.

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
3. My sole use for newspapers
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:51 AM
Apr 2013

Last edited Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:31 AM - Edit history (1)

is to line the cats litter trays and I get those from neighbours.

Last time I recall buying a paper was the Sunday Times back in the seventies. I'm not including a copy of Granma in Cuba : that was just to keep given I don't speak Spanish.

brewens

(13,392 posts)
4. I'd like to subscribe but can't justify it. If only to support our local independent
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:57 AM
Apr 2013

daily, I really should. It's rare these days to have a local paper like that. We get it at work and I can read it there if I like. The last time I subscribed, I was recycling most of them without ever reading them. That seemed wasteful, both my money and the paper.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
8. used to get the sunday NY times delivery up to last year.
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:16 AM
Apr 2013

Like a paper on Sunday mornings but delivery was missed quite a few times. Was annoyed when their website started to charge, the delivery gave free access but the login was a pita. I canceled them and to heck with their pay to read website.

you have beautiful orange kitties

 

oldhippie

(3,249 posts)
12. I did, if you count The Economist .....
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:23 AM
Apr 2013

It looks like a magazine to me, but it always refers to itself as a newspaper. I have subscribed for years.

I can't remember the last time I bought a traditional newspaper. Probably a USAToday or Wall Street Journal if I was stuck on some long airport layover many years ago.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
13. What do zombie kittens have to do with this poll?
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:24 AM
Apr 2013

That one on the top looks like it's sucking the brains out of the other!

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,780 posts)
15. I used to subscribe to two dailies: Chicago Trib and (Chicago) Daily Herald
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:26 AM
Apr 2013

Dropped the Herald first because it was getting 1) more conservative but in a spineless, kowtowing to an aging, cranky, and too-much-time-on-their-hands-think-I'll-complain-about-bias readership; 2) because the level of journalism and general writing skill had always been 3rd class; and 3) because they stopped delivering it to the doorstep-- the one thing they had going for them over the real papers (Trib and sun-Times). Oh, and Jack Mabley died.

Cut the Trib back to Wed-Fri-Sun, which is about all I have time to read these days. Say what you will about the Trib's editorials but the reporting has always been top-notch. I will, however, drop it like like a bad transmission if Murdoch sinks his claws into it.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
20. I buy two everyday one my wife reads one my MIL reads
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:44 AM
Apr 2013

I don't read them. They are mostly ads and sports and business bull shit.

MissB

(15,800 posts)
24. I prefer not to provide additional money to my local newspaper.
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:59 AM
Apr 2013

The current editor is rather disagreeable.

Anyway, I think the local paper is suffering. They started giving me a free daily paper last year. I called a few times to stop them from doing so, but they persist. I recently received a letter telling me that I was getting another six months free, courtesy of a few local sports teams and an airline.

The Oregonian is available online if I chose to actually read it.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
27. I buy four diffferent ones on Friday and the Sunday NY Times
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:20 AM
Apr 2013

don't buy them the other six days

2 NJ papers
NY Times
Daily News

 

RevStPatrick

(2,208 posts)
29. August, 2004.
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:24 AM
Apr 2013

When my father's obituary was printed in the New York Times.
And yet, I still read it every day...

Atman

(31,464 posts)
30. The Hartford Courant just sends them to me, free.
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:25 AM
Apr 2013

The Courant is supposedly the "longest continuously published newspaper in America." They actually show up in my mailbox three times a week. I've never paid for them...I never asked for them. I guess it increases their circulation figures. But the paper is worthless. Every article is one or two paragraphs long, ending with a link to read the rest of the story online.

There are ads on the FRONT PAGE. They've reduced its size to slightly larger than tabloid, but smaller than a real newspaper. Some "sections" are 100% ads, or only one sheet of paper. It is basically just a sell-sheet for their web site. Every story is something I read two days ago online.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
44. That's called Berliner size
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 03:33 PM
Apr 2013

The new fad that drives everyone fucking nuts is the little ad stickers they're putting on the front page now. We bought one of those stupid machines, and everyone hates it...editorial hates designing around it, advertising hates dealing with the sticker company, accounts receivable hates having to refund advertisers' money when a paper without a sticker shows up on the doorstep of the person who bought it, the carriers hate bagging papers with stickers because they fall off, ad sales hates selling these because there's a two-week lead time (for a lot of smaller ads that aren't real complex you can call us by noon today to make tomorrow's paper), the man who owns the paper hates it, the people in the mailroom hate it because they have to station someone to watch this thing and they have to clean up the million fallen-off stickers, and the readers despise the stickers. But we persist...gotta pay off the stupid little machine before we shove it in the corner with all the worn out copiers.

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
33. I bought a Street Roots just this week
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:31 AM
Apr 2013

but my usual answer is never.
VivaDad however is sitting across from me reading his daily analog newspaper. I think it's funny when he mentions something he's reading and I can say "yep. saw that on DU yesterday"

egold2604

(369 posts)
34. Just to start the fire in my wood stove
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:49 AM
Apr 2013

We haven't bought a newspaper in years. Five years ago I was able to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal using mileage points from USAir. Since I am retired and rarely fly any more on business, I didn't have enough points accrued to go anywhere. I got 2 subscriptions to the WSJ which I used to start fires in my wood stove.

Necessity is the Mother of Us All.

supernova

(39,345 posts)
35. Sometime in the Mid-90s
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:55 AM
Apr 2013

Just couldn't justify the collection of papers in my house. I have enough to do without recycling stacks of papers. I was looking to get rid of repetitive tasks and was spending more and more time reading on line. Still do.

I can enjoy the same experience on line, even the comics and the crosswords, without the mess in my home.

I certainly think local news has a place in our daily lives, but the format needs to change. There is one paper here who insists on leaving a plastic wrapped copy in my driveway periodically. I've tried to get them to stop for 10 years.

Perhaps, local papers, weeklies, can aggregate in something similar to a journalistic craigslist. Don't know. Just musing outloud.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
37. it arrives every day
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 12:33 PM
Apr 2013

I think it's important to support the local paper because -- believe it or not -- there are many people who can't get their news from the Internet for one reason or another. Supporting the local print paper subsidizes that community's need for info by keeping the paper alive.

DainBramaged

(39,191 posts)
39. So if you subscribe and you aren't happy I didn't specifically include your choice
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 02:55 PM
Apr 2013

What do you think the open question about making up your own answer and voting for that question meant?


irisblue

(32,828 posts)
59. daily subscriber & the NYT on Sunday
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 05:42 PM
Apr 2013

for years. I do use the internet for news as well. Cat picture is very awwwww.

peacefreak

(2,939 posts)
61. I usually buy the Sunday paper
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 05:50 PM
Apr 2013

& bring it into work. The boss can be pissy on Sundays & it gives her something to focus on.

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