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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen was the last time you bought a newspaper?
Just wondering
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this week | |
17 (59%) |
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this month | |
2 (7%) |
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this year | |
0 (0%) |
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I can't remember | |
9 (31%) |
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kittehs don't need no stinking newspapers | |
1 (3%) |
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I'm not happy with the questions so I'll make my own so there | |
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MineralMan
(146,190 posts)I do.
StrayKat
(570 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)I used to subscribe to two, but didn't have time to read them both.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,694 posts)GentryDixon
(2,944 posts)I do it for my hubby. He reads the hard copy, I catch it online.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)n/t
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)MineralMan
(146,190 posts)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)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.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)johnp3907
(3,723 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I know that's not true across the country.
MineralMan
(146,190 posts)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.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)and NYT on Sundays.
KaryninMiami
(3,073 posts)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)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)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)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.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)If you picked #1, you qualify for the first three.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)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.
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11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)oldhippie
(3,249 posts)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)That one on the top looks like it's sucking the brains out of the other!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,780 posts)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.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)I don't read them. They are mostly ads and sports and business bull shit.
TrogL
(32,818 posts)octothorpe
(962 posts)Paul E Ester
(952 posts)MissB
(15,800 posts)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.
beevul
(12,194 posts)SteveG
(3,109 posts)to the daily newspaper of our largest city, and have it delivered.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)don't buy them the other six days
2 NJ papers
NY Times
Daily News
RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)When my father's obituary was printed in the New York Times.
And yet, I still read it every day...
Atman
(31,464 posts)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)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)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)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.
Paul E Ester
(952 posts)supernova
(39,345 posts)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.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)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)What do you think the open question about making up your own answer and voting for that question meant?
FSogol
(45,355 posts)I've subscribed my entire life.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Maybe longer then that.
ChazII
(6,198 posts)Javaman
(62,439 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)I bought it for the coupons. That's all my shitty, right-wing local rag is good for.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I subscribe to the local, and the last time I bought a non-local was a week ago
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)The paper and the morning coffee is a ritual that I just can't abandon.
boomer55
(592 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)irisblue
(32,828 posts)for years. I do use the internet for news as well. Cat picture is very awwwww.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)It was in December of 2004.
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)& bring it into work. The boss can be pissy on Sundays & it gives her something to focus on.