slo’s MONDAY 8/4 - Newspaper

[Micca]

Stopped subscribing in the 80s, used to flip through one at work until about 20 years ago. News is everywhere now, it's almost difficult to avoid it

 

[DeeBee3]

I LOVED reading the newspaper when I was younger. My dad had it delivered and I enjoyed flipping through. I also had one delivered when I first lived out of the house. Now it just doesn't make sense for me because I'm the only one who would use it. I did really enjoy it and will only read physical books. I do too much reading on the screen anyway.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Used to have the newspaper delivered but canceled because it got too expensive. I do remember having newspaper services that just went out of business too. I'd go pick up the Sunday paper because I liked all the ads and coupons but then that got less and less and I stopped doing that.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Been a digital subscriber since the start of the 21st century. By now I subscribe to several American and English papers, the Gleaner for Caribbean news and 2 French sites. Keeps me up to date with my surroundings. At onetime DGD tried to convince me that getting news for free online was the answer but agreed to disagree. Now she sees my point and has joined me in digital subscription.

 

[tvguy]

I haven't gotten a paper at home in over 40 years. Remember, I worked in news, and worked overnight shift. I read the paper at work hours before it would have even been delivered to my house. Or delivered to work for that matter. Final edition is printed at Midnight and we (often me) would drive over to the loading dock at the newspaper at 1 am to pick up a paper.

Current cost of home delivery of the local paper is $2,072 a year, so I would not be inclined to subscribe now that I am retired. I did have a digital subscription until last year, but when it hit $30 a month, I canceled . Almost every day I get an e-mail offering me 6 months for $3 a month! Now I read the paper six days week (they don't do a paper on Saturday) for free every morning on my Library website. Not much there anymore, and if something happens after about 4 pm, it takes two days to make the paper. But I worked in TV news, where the goal is to get news on the air and on the web within minutes of information being confirmed.

 

[clappyclaps]

Have never had a newspaper delivered to my home and to be honest, I dont read newspapers at all unless I happen to be waiting around somewhere and there's one there i can flick through to pass the time.

Try not to read the news too often as it's rather depressing, but do check the BBC News app daily to scan through the headlines.

 

[Genie+]

The weekly local newspaper is delivered via usps. We read it. It’s usually 20-30 pages.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Great poll - I bet if you did the same poll pre-internet it would be completely flipped. I know we subscribed to the paper like it was just another utility you had to have - then dropped it when we didn't know what to do with all the paper. Now the city has great recycling programs but I've lost interest. A lot of that had to do with the heavy political lean of the local paper that I just didn't agree with (LA Times).

 

[_19disnA]

Been YEARS since we had a paper delivered. Also too much of a pain when you are on vacation to get them to stop and/or bother the neighbor to pick them up. Sure way to tell someone is not home and gone for several days is to see a pile of papers at the end of the driveway. Every newsworthy story can be found online or by watching any number of TV news programs. Papers made sense before the days of the internet, but now getting day old printed news doesn't seem to accomplish much.

Never been concerned on about which way our local paper was 'leaning'. Accusing your local paper of being 'biased' seems to be more about the paper expressing 'views' of topics the reader doesn't agree with. I think more of that type of discussion belongs in the other area.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Not really looking for a discussion - just saying why I lost interest. Heck, I didn't even say which way they leaned. The fact that I even mentioned the LATimes is biased isn't really news - the new owner even made headlines for trying to do something about it in fact.

 

[kdonnel]

This thread made me look at what the options are for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Best I can figure they only print Sunday.

Monday-Saturday are online only.

You can subscribe for the one sad Sunday home delivery for $51.74 for 26 weeks and then it renews at $16.99 a month ($203.88 a year).

 

[amcnj]

I cancelled quite a few years ago now, when they no longer credited you for things like vacation breaks or undelivered papers. They said they now considered themselves a subscription type service, where you paid a set amount regardless of how much you used the service, like the phone company. I was going to be away for two weeks, and couldn’t accept that I would be paying for a physical, tangible product that I wouldn’t be receiving.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Current cost of home delivery of the local paper is $2,072 a year,

This thread made me look at what the options are for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Best I can figure they only print Sunday.

Monday-Saturday are online only.

You can subscribe for the one sad Sunday home delivery for $51.74 for 26 weeks and then it renews at $16.99 a month ($203.88 a year).

I received my annual renewal bill for the daily Chicago Tribune a week or so ago. The past year I paid $180 for the year, daily paper, Sunday included. My renewal bill was $430. I called, said I will pay what I paid last year. Hold for a moment. She says best now is $190. I said okay, mail me a new bill. She said, ok. Same procedure when I get the other paper's annual bill, similar pricing.

$3.65 a week is fine with me, includes online subscription also Daily newsstand price is $4.50 I think, Sunday newsstand is $5.50. I can't imagine anybody buying newsstand, drug store, 7-11 papers.

 

[citruscurtis]

WOW wow Wow WOW

I just never realized how lucky I am to live at 118 degrees

Yuma has a daily morning paper delivered to hundreds of ORANGE color embossed plastic tubes with a sun logo... and the name of the paper... the sun... and the number one reason of it's success

"I had hoped to retire and leisure time to read the paper with my coffee and understand what Billy Joel was singing "

It's a fantastic paper and one time had a hard working nature photographer for the front page to let us know that indeed there were big horn sheep along the river

 

[citruscurtis]

Have never had a newspaper delivered to my home and to be honest, I dont read newspapers at all unless I happen to be waiting around somewhere and there's one there i can flick through to pass the time.

Wait...why was it then back in the Old days of US fast food chains that our fish and chips were served on a faux newspaper .... what no battered fish on my memes... well..at least a newspaper...be it not pub greasy or print of Queen English... sorry...it was a long time ago

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I don't read the newspaper and we do not get one delivered. My MIL still gets one like on Sundays only. I often joke and point, and I am like what is this thing sitting here??? I do the same thing when I see a rotary phone on a tv show. I have a weird sense of humor.