slo’s WEDNESDAY 8/7 poll - Reading The Newspaper 📰

[CdnCarrie]

I just recently canceled the weekend newspaper about 2 months ago. I can read it online at work during the week. Make do with free options (like CBC app) now on the weekends.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

I have been a newspaper reader for most of my adult life.
We still get the local news delivered although it's no where what it used to be. No more sit down with a cup of coffee and read the paper for half an hour.>>>>>now it's open the paper and be done in 5 minutes or less. I like to keep on local CRIME, deaths and sports news both Chicago and Milwaukee.

 

[fla4fun]

I haven’t subscribed to the newspaper for at least ten years. I used to get it every day, then the price went up so I dropped to the weekend/holiday package (Fri-Sun plus holidays), then it went up again and I went to Sunday only, then when it went up again I dropped it altogether. I get my news online or on tv.

 

[soccerdad72]

We haven't had a physical paper delivered for years now. We used to get the Sunday paper only. Prior to that (like 20 years ago), we would get it daily. Maybe 10 years or so ago, the main paper in town stopped doing every day delivery of the paper - they cut back to like 3 or 4 days a week (you could buy it at a gas station / convenience store).

 

[bobbiwoz]

We have a local ( mostly county wide) weekly newspaper mailed to our home. I read articles of interest to me.

 

[amcnj]

When I was young one of the local papers had a morning and evening edition. And newspapers back then were seven days a week and a decent size. The Sunday paper was very thick, challenging the kids on their bicycles endeavoring to deliver them.

I always subscribed and read it. I finally stopped maybe 15-20 years ago now. In addition to the smaller size, news available first elsewhere, what stopped me was when they would no longer hold the papers when you or were away and give them to you afterwards, also refusing to even give a credit for any days missed, including when the carrier (by then adults in cars) skipped you. And the carrier became less reliable.

Now the paper isn’t produced on Saturdays. The Sunday paper is at best the size a weekday one used to be.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I have digital subscriptions to 3 newspapers which I begin reading about 4:00 AM every morning: NYTIMES, WaPo and WSJ. I go back and forth throughout the day reading them when needs call for it.

The man used to have the NYPost delivered to the door so he could read the sports section. Told him the Times had a sports section too but he liked the Post better; I loved him despite this glaring fault…

 

[kimmar067]

what's a newspaper?

 

[CynBeth]

I still get the local paper but as other mentioned we have a lot of delivery issues and when you call it is offshore customer service who are awful so nothing ever gets resolved. Even a supervisor is offshore and when you ask for someone onshore am told it is just them. I call all of the time also because they keep raising the rate and the paper gets smaller and I am not paying more than a certain amount so they reduce it but then either the next bill or one after that they raise it again so I have to call again and the cycle continues. I am told there is no way to set their system to keep me at this rate.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Stopped getting newspaper delivery in the early 2000's. They jacked up the prices and there were no longer coupons (even in the Sunday paper).

 

[Toolulu22]

We have delivery of the WSJ by about 7am each morning, except Sundays & holidays. I started my subscription probably 25-30 years ago and always had some sort of subscription deal until the last few years. The price is insane- about 82.99/month. Thankfully, I now have $20 off per month from a credit card. My husband reads it cover to cover- and since he’s up at 5:30- goes out and buys a different paper to tie him over! I do use the online WSJ subscription.

 

[Dead2009]

I don't think anyone reads the physical newspaper anymore considering everything is online.

 

[sarahann77]

Up until this year, I'd read or at least skim the local paper my mom would get on vacation that was a small paper. I used to read our free papers we'd get at home but they stopped those. Along with the black friday ads stopped being in the Thanksgiving paper, if they even had one and didn't know it was Sun or Wed paper prior.

 

[Kooks and Bay Bay]

My dad still gets the local newspaper.
Not even he is sure why he wastes so much money when its just a shell of what it used to be and they upped the price by $25 per month in the last 3 years.
He doesn't go online though so for him its still the best way for him to get the local news. That and the local radio station.
Of course he watches the news on TV but they don't have much info about our little city.
But my mom and I keep him up to date with random things we see online too.

 

[ford family]

We still get one daily national newspaper here in the UK and we can get the same paper every day in Spain when we are there. Both of these places we just have to walk to the respective local paper shops.
We used to get two national papers but the broadsheet became too expensive so we switched to the digital version instead.

ford family

 

[RUDisney]

I'm planning to cancel it. Right now, I'm stocking up on papers for lining the birds' cages.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I chose Other because I only read our town's 'such and such is happening' paper-which I find hilarious because nothing happens in my town.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I get 2 daily papers, the Chicago Tribune and the Daily Herald. I also get a weekly more local paper that covers the Chicago Northwest suburbs almost exclusively. All delivered to the house. I used to get the WSJ also but retired now and have a lesser need for it.

I pay annual. Total about $350. If purchased at the store at cover price, they would be over $$2,000 a year. Each year when I get my bills, I call and have it reduced to basically a repeat of the previous year. Similar to may subscriptions these days, there is the asked for price, and the price paid.

The papers are delivered about 5 AM each morning. I usually have read most of the major news online by then from the previous day, but I enjoy the much more in-depth reading available in the actual papers. I'd have a hard time canceling my papers.

 

[mumto3girls]

I haven’t read a newspaper in at least five years. We used to get a paper delivered daily, then about 10 years ago I changed to just Fri-Sat-Sun. I only wanted the Sunday paper, but had to accept Fri and Sat to get it delivered.

After a while even most of the Sunday paper went unread so I cancelled everything.

This is mostly my experience as well.

 

[DisneyHardin]

We used to get the paper every day, but had a terrible carrier who skipped us all the time. We cancelled about a year ago and now we just buy a Sunday paper at the gas station a couple times a month.