Newspapers

[Mark W.]

Who reads newspapers anymore? Who even gets em? I have found that I get most of my news, weather reports, and such off this site.

 

[showcrop]

I know that I am in the minority, just observing how few home delivery tubes there are still around in my town. I still get mine and peruse it every day. I sure would not admit to getting my news here, LOL.

 

[Phil9N3667]

I get a daily paper, delivered, about $160 a year. Just like being able to read it, have it in my hands. Old school I guess.

 

[wjytexas]

I do. More detail on local stories, and the comics.

 

[pete black]

We have daily delivery, except for Sat and Mon which they just stopped. Wife and I read and enjoy it with our coffee. Only dislike, it's views on some political and social matters differ than ours. $200 a year.

 

[Stephen Newell]

With today's electronics by the time they work up a paper and get it in print even if you get the first one off the press it's old news. Then the city of Dallas has only one newspaper left and because of political reasons I won't touch their paper anymore.

 

[Bob Collins]

We still get a paper 7 days a week, just got a notice it is going up to $39/month, don't know how many customers they will retain.

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 05:41:02 04/05/18) With today's electronics by the time they work up a paper and get it in print even if you get the first one off the press it's old news. Then the city of Dallas has only one newspaper left and because of political reasons I won't touch their paper anymore.

Very true Stephen, but you know what? They are doing it during the night while we are asleep, and the paper is delivered before I get up, so the morning news on radio or TV is not a second ahead.

 

[Billy Shafer]

I use to take the other paper. Then they went under and left us with the Morning news. Didn't care for it but it was a newspaper. Live in a small town now. Local paper is nothing but adds and local news. Which you already know about. So not much sense in taking it.

 

[JF in MI]

As Egon Spengler said; 'Print is dead'.

 

[Goose]

I read two local papers for the obits, ads, and crossword puzzles. Both are going down the tube.

From my own experience managing a weekly newspaper, a paper must have in the neighborhood of 50% or more paid advertising to be financially viable. One of these papers is down in the teens and the other around 25%. They just don't understand that you can't continually try to jam opposing political views down the throats of readers and advertisers and still retain the advertisers and readers. Seems like every week something else is deleted from the paper.

Kinda sad, really, when the publishers are so hard headed that they'll destroy their paper before they'll admit that opposing views are valid.

 

[DeltaRed]

We get the local weekly paper. read it every week.Cost $35.00 year. There is just something about a printed page that a computer screen cant compare.

 

[Charlie M]

I agree with the "computer screen can't compare" comment. We don't get the paper anymore as it was mostly news we had heard somewhere else already and we stopped getting it but I always enjoyed having a news paper and a cup of coffee after breakfast each morning. Maybe that's another indication of my age.

 

[grizz02]

hope they don't do away with it how will I start my wood stove? lol

 

[rrlund]

I get online every day on the local papers site. There's an E edition that you can subscribe to and get the whole content,but they post the obits and major stories to read without a subscription.

 

[Adirondack case guy]

I don't even read the pennysaver. We bring them in and use the paper to start fires in fire place when needed, and use them when I am doing tractor painting projects to mask off areas that I don't want paint on.
Loren

 

[old popper]

I drive to town 6 mornings a week for the Sioux City Journal. My dog is addicted to the daily ride, and I am addicted to the crossword, and word jumble in the paper.

 

[tractorguy2]

I get the local paper and read it from front to back. Can't get local news off the net.

 

[Spook]

I haven?t had a newspaper subscription in 20 years. I read a lot, but mostly online. I do occasionally read books though. As for the local paper, it?s on life support, Craigslist took most of their classified ads away, and most advertisers are going online. I really think it is a shame, a strong newspaper has been a check on those in power. A recent Detroit mayor is in jail due to the Detroit free press investigative reporters. They file FReedodm of info requests, and go text messages that put him in jail.

 

[DPittman]

My Mil gets the paper here, I like the word jumble too, funnies, this day in history, occasionally the obituries (to see if I have to go to work that day) glance at sports and I'm done with it. Bout everything else is firestarter. If I fished I wouldn't even wrap the fish in it cause I'm afraid it would make the fish smell bad. DP

 

[Billy C.]

I cancelled my subscription just after the first of the year when it went to $50 per month for seven days . They had become nothing but abundant racists and outdoor column was published only once per week and wrote about nothing but deer hunting and huge horns--"horn porn" as it is known here.

 

[Leroy]

I still do read and get one. And to give background I delievered it on a rural route for over 15 years retiring about 8 years ago. It is magements own falt they are loosing readers. My county has 2 local papers for 2 towns 10 mile apart printed on the same press. For local coverage you have to buy 2 subscriptions as neither will cover what is considered the others area yet it is the same area. Then they forget about the 4 other towns in the county. And they have forgoten to put things like accident reports in and if they would put a complete correct report in. I think most people would like to know if their neighbor was hurt in a accident. Then goverment meetings do not cover most of them and if they do they do not put any information on the operation of the goverment unit that people want that personally affects them. If for instance they would mention a township meeting would just say pay bills. The people need to know what bills the twp has to pay and how much they are to be able to judge if the people in charge are doing their jobs or not. If something that impacts the county but happens just a half mile out of the county they will not consider printing it. If they would have just used common sence they would not be in position they are in now. If management would have just paid attention to what the delievery drivers was saying the papers would be still good. The unofficial motto of the paper is if it is news we do not want to know about it, if we acidently find out about it we will not print it. And the web page has only a small fraction on it that they actually have in the print version. If I could get ahold of it and put my ideas into use I could within 6 months tripple the customers just by giving people what I want and what I have been told many a time on my route that covered about 150 mile 6 days a week. It is their own falt they are dying. If you do not put out a product that people want they will not buy it. As far as getting news from TV you cannot get it on your schedual, only on the schedual of the station and they do not cover local information the people need to know. All the Items I am talking about are required to be avaible due to public records law. But the public does not have the access to it that the papers do. You have the right to know where your tax dollars are going but they hide that information.

 

[4520BW]

The smart phone has replaced the newspaper as read material in the "stall". At work there use to be a stack of paper and magazines in the mens room, but seen one in years.

 

[tim s]

I buy a daily local paper 5 days a week when I go to the coffee shop,, most of the papers are owned by one group now,,the major articles are so "abundant" that it makes me not want to buy,, but the local things and the Obits. are what I look at.. At a $1.50 it's not a good buy,,and I don't have a stove to light,,or a bird cage to line...so I do use it to pack valves with when I ship them out...

 

[SodBuster87]

The bias in the media these days is so horrible I get my news from YT, Wikipedia, Bing. And of course the old school " word of mouth"

 

[Steve@Advance]

I still take it, but only because mom likes to read it. One of the few things she will do, so I keep the subscription going.

I do look at it at the breakfast table, then read the comics. The ads go in the recycle, never make it in the house.

Evidently the publisher is trying to get out of home delivery, or get rich trying!

The rates keep going up, the content going down. Most everything in the national news is 1-2 days old.

Last I checked it was getting close to $50 a month!!!

 

[Stephen Newell]

I agree, the Times Herald was a much better paper. We used to take that one and after they folded we just started picking up the Morning News Sunday paper at the store. Now we don't even take that.

 

[rustyplow]

Still get the local county paper just cause. In fact just got done reading it before I set down here. Didn't take long. Not much in it anymore.

 

[Dean]

I buy the county paper weekly in order to keep up with politically correct local news and property transfers.

I buy the only remaining nearby big city paper on Sundays for the TV schedule and coupons. All else is usually discarded.

Dean

 

[YNM_O~o]

My thoughts exactly. Starting the stoves is all it's good for!

 

[Bret4207]

We used to get the local "big" paper at home and the local chinzty paper we got free at work. That ended 15 years ago or so. The papers wouldn't cover real local news and their editorial slant was so far to the left it was nuts. Used to listen to local radio news casts too. They're long gone. Still can listen to local NPR but they're as leftist as you can get, which wouldn't be that bad but they think private property rights are evil and any farmer not going 100% organic and vegan is a stone cold killer. So I get my national and world news from news sites online and local news online too.

The sole reason newspapers seem to be in print anymore is for publishing legal notices.

 

[CaseChev]

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has just gone up to $2 day for home delivery. It has been taken over by whoever has USA Today. I has huge print and lots of white space. And of course, most articles are a regurgitation of national news with extreme left bias.

Only reason we still get it......my wife loves her coffee, newspaper and "quiet time" from 6:30 to 8:00 before she goes to work......and before I get out of bed !!!

 

[Craig45]

I get the wall street journal and the richmond Times. Enjoy both papers.

 

[Hay hay hay]

Yep, I had a guy tell me the other day that the big city papers were all biased left. So I asked him which ones he
thought were the most biased...after a few seconds ....he said...."a ..that New York one" So, I asked have you ever
read it.."well no" he replied. So which ones have you ever read, maybe while you were on vacation or travelling on
business????? "Well none because they are too biased" he said "I wouldn't want to read that abundant trash."

So I then asked have you ever even touched a NYT? Washington Post? Wall street Journal? LA Times? Cleveland Plain
Dealer? Pittsburgh Post? Washington Times? National Review? Answer "No they are all just too biased"

 

[Dave Sherburne, NY]

We have a local paper in this small town, been going for over a hundred years. It's mostly about the school happenings. The most interesting parts are titled 25 years ago, 50yrs ago 75 yrs ago 107 yrs ago. I remember stuff from 25 & 50 yrs ago and recognize names from the other years.

 

[Billy Shafer]

The last Sunday edition I had. Must have weighed in at ten pounds.More adds than newspaper.

 

[CKain(MI)]

I 'used' to subscribe and look forward to the daily paper. esp Sat & sun. (Kalamazoo, Mi), however now it is printed in the afternoon, so next afternoon when I would get it, I have already heard or seen the news. Friday night sports can not get in for the Sat. edition! Maybe you can find that on Sunday but have already saw the results on TV or the local news channel's website.
I now use computer to view news websites. Very up-to-date..

 

[Joe W.]

I do. For local news I subscribe to the Lansing State Journal, a morning daily, and have it delivered to my house 7 days a week. It costs me $50 a month. That plus Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News is my source of news every day. Anything more would be too much.

 

[Hay hay hay]

The conventional wisdom was that you had to read the book, newspaper. or pamplet before you were qualified to make a
judgment. Obviously, you have made that an out of date concept.

 

[MarkB_MI]

I continue to subscribe to the local paper (Oakland Press), partly out of habit, but also because it is the only source of certain kinds of local news, such as what the local government agencies and politicians are up to. The subscription has become absurdly expensive, but I continue to pay for it because the only thing keeping the paper going is subscription revenue.

I used to read two newspapers daily; the Detroit Free Press or Detroit News at lunch and the Oakland Press when I got home. I seldom read the paper at lunch anymore because it's just to difficult to find one to buy!

When in Florida, I try to read the Tampa Bay Times every day. It's one of the best newspapers in the country, in my opinion.

 

[wolfman]

I still get the local overpriced, undervalued paper mainly for the obits. Our paper has no reporters, very little real news, no classified ads, but It's the only way to see who passed. I check the obits six days a week to make sure I'm not listed!

 

[wolfman]

$35 a year? Geeece our scrappy paper is $200 a year. And they want $150 for the e-edition.

 

[W_B]

(quoted from post at 13:47:19 04/05/18) We still get a paper 7 days a week, just got a notice it is going up to $39/month, don't know how many customers they will retain.

Ours went up to $43 per month from $28. Cancelled it, we've subscribed since 1992 when we moved to this area. Just not worth it anymore.

 

[JML755]

I go out every Sunday morning to get the Detroit News/Free Press combined edition. Mostly for the crossword puzzles. Love to read the .columnists (Free Press side) for entertainment. They've gotten more entertaining with all the gun control and political stuff going on now. Amazed at the stuff they write as if they think it's the gospel truth.