Do You Read/Buy Newspapers?

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

I'm watching World News Tonight & they just reported that another newspaper ran it's last edition. The P.I. in Seattle is no longer in existence.

I really enjoy reading newspapers when I travel, I think it's great insight to my surroundings & the culture of the town, city, country your visiting. But I'm really guilty about getting so much of my news on the internet & some on t.v. I love the NY Times but don't even buy that every single weekend.

Do you still buy & read newspapers? Do you think it's sad so many papers are closing or do you just think it's sign of the times?

 

[Uncle Remus]

I'm watching World News Tonight & they just reported that another newspaper ran it's last edition. The P.I. in Seattle is no longer in existence.

I really enjoy reading newspapers when I travel, I think it's great insight to my surroundings & the culture of the town, city, country your visiting. But I'm really guilty about getting so much of my news on the internet & some on t.v. I love the NY Times but don't even buy that every single weekend.

Do you still buy & read newspapers? Do you think it's sad so many papers are closing or do you just think it's sign of the times?

Sign o' the times.

 

[Rora]

I read the newspaper every day

 

[DawnCt1]

Three a day; The Hartford Courant, the Wall St. Journal and the Journal Inquirer.

 

[Straycat]

I get the Friday, Saturday and Sunday papers delivered. (Florida Today)

 

[C.Ann]

Out of town - out of state - love 'em..

Local papers? Very, very rarely..

ETA: Many people read them online now too - myself included..

 

[Cindyluwho]

Three a day; The Hartford Courant, the Wall St. Journal and the Journal Inquirer.

OK Dawn, I read that and totally thought the last one said "National Enquirer". My first thought was "seriously??....Dawn??? she seems so educated!"

I read the Seattle Times every morning, cover to cover excluding the Sports section. It's sad how skinny the paper is now but with no ad revenue what can they do? We no longer advertise our real estate listings in the newspaper because the vast majority of folks look up listings online now. So we put our listings on the Multiple Listing Service, Johnlscott.com and on craigslist - all of which are free and get wayyyy more attention. I think at last survey less than 5% of buyers got their info from a newspaper.

I also get Newsweek every week and read it cover to cover. It's left over from my Senior year of High School when it was required by our CWP teacher.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Nope. I read online papers...VA, DC, FL, NJ, CNN, visit Drudge, etc., etc., etc. And I occasionally visit Grudge since I typed that in accidentally one time. Interesting and strange stuff there!

P.S. The free newspaper I picked up outside our room when we were in DC in December is still in my bag.

 

[akhenaten]

I do read a North Jersey paper....we get it delivered.
I think it is sad to see papers close...

They need to focus on more local news/ events ..... we get national news so quickly on the net and cable... but there is no better place to read about local issues / performances... etc.

 

[Chuck S]

Our local paper publishes 5 days a week. No paper on Monday or Saturday. I think most folks in town still subscribe for the local news, it is only $72 per year ($58 for Sr. Citizens). But there really isn't too much news to it.

 

[ntsammy5]

I subscribe to 2 get 3 more at work and read most of them online.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Three a day; The Hartford Courant, the Wall St. Journal and the Journal Inquirer.

Off topic...How was the rest of your trip? Did you do a trip report!

 

[Purseval]

Most newspapers are nothing but Liberal propaganda rags, especially in the big cities, led by the New York Times. The sooner they go out of business the better off the country will be.

 

[D&R love Disney]

My Dad is a retired newspaperman, of course I read the paper. We always had the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and local Brockton Enterprise. I read parts of them daily. I still like the feeling of holding the paper.

 

[Missy1961]

I read Newsday every day--we get it delivered. I buy Daily News on Sundays. When I travel, I love to read the newspaper. I don't buy it when I'm at Disney, but I will buy a paper while I wait for my plane home.

I'm very saddened to hear about the newspapers that are going away. Yes, I do get some of my news on the internet, but you can't read an online paper in the bathroom!

 

[ntsammy5]

but you can't read an online paper in the bathroom!

That's why they call it a laptop

 

[Teresa Pitman]

I always used to get a daily newspaper. But when we moved to my current hometown nine years ago, I couldn't seem to find someone to deliver it properly. Instead of putting the paper in the mailbox or even on our front porch, it would be tossed in the general direction of the driveway. That meant that to read it with my breakfast, I'd have to get dressed (and this is Canada, so often that meant coat and boots) and go out in the semi-darkness to hunt for my newspaper. Sometimes it was buried in snow. Sometimes it was in the road. Often I didn't get to read it because either someone else picked it up, or it was run over by a car, or it landed in a puddle and got soaked.

I would call, and sometimes it would improve for a few days, but it always went back to this "tossed from a moving car" approach so I ended up cancelling my subscription.

A few years later I tried again, but had the same problems, so I cancelled again.

Now instead of reading the local newspaper with my breakfast, I wait until I fire up my computer to start working and read the news online. And sadly, my local paper laid off more than half their employees last month.

Teresa

 

[HelenePA]

I get the local Sat and Sun paper. They got a new size paper a few weeks ago to cut costs I guess. I only get it for the coupons.. honestly the news around here isn't much news

 

[DawnCt1]

OK Dawn, I read that and totally thought the last one said "National Enquirer". My first thought was "seriously??....Dawn??? she seems so educated!"

.

I knew that's how it would be seen but I couldn't lie. Its really a local paper. I don't particularly like it. Especially the editorial page, but I read it.

http://www.journalinquirer.com/

I should just read it on line and save a tree.

 

[minniecarousel]

yup - daily local paper & San Francisco Chronicle Wed through Sun. I love reading the newspaper.