Does Anybody Actually Get A Real Newspaper Anymore?

[redstateblues]

I read a lot more papers on the net than I ever did when I was having the Tennessean delivered everyday.

[NMDemDist2]

1. i get it on the weekends for the crosswords and ads

but half the time it's recycled before it's unfolded

[abrownz]

11. I do!

I get the St Pete Times. I like it.

[daisygirl]

2. Every day

I could read the local paper online for free, but then I couldn't do the crossword puzzles...

I get most of my real news from online news sites, though.

[realisticphish]

3. i still get the Columbus Dispatch

on weekends; mostly for comics, though their opinion page is sometimes ok

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[InkAddict]

10. I refuse to subscribe to the on-line version

If they want to charge foreigners from Florida OK, but the newspaper of the capitol of the State should not charge residents to get what little relevent information they can spew.

[realisticphish]

18. yeah

i get most news from the net, but sometimes its nice to have a real newspaper to look through, regardless of the crap

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Maeve]

24. Daily subscriber here

Altho I usually check the headlines on My Yahoo and here in LBN before I read the paper. Local news (hey, we've almost killed off New Rome!), local events, coupons...

Bet you the Disgrace backs Bush again! They haven't backed a Dem for president since my Grandma was still driving the Model-T!

[realisticphish]

27. when im at school

i pick one up daily (they're free in the dorms); they DO seem to publish a reasonably balenced letter selection, but thats about it; oh, and FUCK NEW ROME :)


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[leftchick]

4. I canceled our local news and fishwrap over a year ago But....

I do buy another in my state, the Charlotte Observer when I need a newspaper. I love the Knight-Ridder reporting.

[merh]

5. Not me, I haven't had a subscription to a newspaper in

better than 6 years. I get all of my news, including local, from the net. I hate the newspapers, they are yellow journalist rags!

[nolabels]

31. I kind of get thinking about that kind of thing

My hometown rag is the worst Reich wing piece that the most died in the wool Nazi's could ever wish for (if you ask me). I peruse it to check out the propaganda, check sports scores and clip coupons. You got to figure that not only the bent of the paper, but the subscribers and the advertisers mostly also lean in that direction. The editorial pages are really a trip.

The reason i bring it up is that sometimes one might want to check out other sources just to make sure one has a good picture. Mostly the nasties on the fascist side won't do this, they only want to hear what they want to believe.

Truly it was no lie when someone stated the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Happy news for happy people

Psychologists now know what makes people happy
By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY
The happiest people surround themselves with family and friends, don't care about keeping up with the Joneses next door, lose themselves in daily activities and, most important, forgive easily.
(snip)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2002-12-08-happy-main_x.htm

[trof]

6. Yep, The Foley (AL) Onlooker.

Local bi-weekly with ONLY local news.

[buycitgo]

7. dunno if this counts

chicago tribune

[hlthe2b]

8. Denver Post-- weekends only...

[InkAddict]

9. Cox's Dayton Daily Sermon

is only for sports fans and Wal-Mart shoppers. Nothing to see there, so move right along. Cancelled it years ago, so I've got to beg it for wrapping up our oh so sophisticated Welsh's jelly stemware.

[City Lights]

12. The NYTimes is delivered everyday. n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. I follow 4 or 5 papers on the web. NYT, WaPo, LA Times, Atlanta

Journal-Constitution and occasionally a few others. bbc.co.uk, and check CNN.com for breaking news though their TV coverage is starting to piss me off in a big way and I may drop them entirely.

Unless I'm eating breakfast at a Waffle House or something I have little use for paper newspapers anymore.

[pscot]

14. Seattle Post Intelligencer

Delivered. Even the briefest newspaper article gives you more information than you get on TV. And it's indispensable for sports and other local news. And let's not forget the letters to the eds.

[redstateblues]

20. That's The Only Thing I Miss About The Paper- Letters To The Editor

[Trillo]

15. No subscriptions anymore; occasional newsstand purchase.

The last paper I subscribed to: when I sent a letter in critical of Bush, 3 weeks later my unique argument appeared on the NY Times editorial page. The paper I sent the letter to never published my letter. Never acknowledged my email submission, and further didn't reply when I wrote nicely to them after the NYTimes editorial was published.

I didn't think it was a good way to treat one's paying customers, and didn't renew.

I also didn't think the NYTimes piece was a copyright violation because it was re-typed in new words, so suing them was likely to be a long and involved process, where I would need to prove things I would have a lot of trouble proving, like chain of custody.

A short time after this, they had the made-up stories scandal.

I still buy a paper occasionally at the newsstand when I'm looking for something in particular. Local classifieds are always nice.

[shanti]

16. i let my subscription to the sacramento bee

lapse about 5 years ago and haven't missed it, same for watching network teevee. i see no reason to follow lies and propaganda :shrug:

[dmr]

17. I subscribe to the week-end Newsday

I read several newspapers online daily - I love being able to do that!

I've been meaning to unsubscribe to Newsday because basically, all I look at are the advertisements, so it's a waste of money just for that. The Sunday paper was once good for the TV guide too, but the small print is very hard to read, and I get far better results from www.titanTV.com and is more convenient.

There was a time I read the paper from front to back, and I miss doing that on a Sunday morning, but now I just bring my coffee cup to my desk instead.

What's great about online newspapers, besides the availability of so many to chose from, is the ability to read varying perspectives on a story to which I can make my own conclusions.

[Eric J in MN]

19. No, I prefer reading newspapers online (nt)

nt

[LWolf]

21. No.

I miss the daily ritual of coffee and paper, and the morning comics, but I do that on the computer now. I cancelled my subscription to the local paper after 24 years last spring; I just couldn't take it anymore. A privately owned right-wing paper in a hard-core conservative area; I couldn't bring myself to open the editorials and LTEs anymore.

[RobinA]

22. The Philadelphia Inquirer

every day and the weekly version of the Washington Post every week, I'd get it daily, but I can't afford it since it's out of town. Even read papers on vacation. I love newspapers and figure they need all the support they can get. Online doesn't work for me, I hate reading online, especially long articles. Plus, I'm never sure that the online version isn't abridged.

[Pepperbelly]

23. my local paper ... the Arkansas Democrat Gazette is a right wing rag of ..

ill repute and giving the rat-bastard gop that owns it so much as a nickel pisses me off.

[in_cog_ni_to]

25. We get the Chicago Trib 6 days a week.

I get my news from online ...usually here at DU. Hubbie reads the paper and GUESS WHAT? "I" am usually a day ahead of him with news. ;) He'll say did you hear about such and such and I say yup, I read that yesterday on DU or online somewhere. The internet is a wonderful thing.

[RiffRandell]

26. Have to.

It's my little OCD stuff--can't do my daily chores until I read the paper. Luckily, the AJC is "a liberal rag."

[AlCzervik]

28. every day i get the sacramento bee

and the San Francisco chronicle, both are always called liberal rags but i guess it's only a rag if you don't like what they print.

[redstateblues]

29. How are they staying in business?

[pinto]

30. I read one or two daily. the local yokel for the LTTE's and local news,

and a statewide paper (either LA Times or SF Chron) for Sacramento news, columnists and special reports.

Check out the others on-line...

I'm an old-timer, of sorts, and really have a thing about sitting and turning the pages and reading the paper.

(ed for spell)