The glory days for newspapers have passed. Readership is way down, especially among younger people. But the printed editions of many newspapers are still being published, and there are still many loyal readers who read them.
How about you? Do you read a daily newspaper every day — maybe even get it delivered to your front door? Or are you an infrequent reader, perhaps just buying a copy when you pass by a newsstand and see a front headline that you just can’t ignore?
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Read the print edition at Dr office.
I love to read a print version but dropped the paper when the cost got too much. On fixed income so had to cut out certain things that are not considered essential.
I still subscribe to the print edition. As far as the price, ours is only $26 for 13 weeks. That includes the Sunday edition. $2 a week for 7 papers. I’m one of the people that likes to browse the paper throughout the day.
My local paper is $85.60 for 8 weeks, that is Tue, Thur, and Sun printed, with digital seven days a week free with subscription. You can get digital only seven days a week for $22.50 a month. I would go digital only, but my wife insists on printed (Happy wife, happy life) copy. By the way, she reads it in less than 5 mins and 15 on Sunday.
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I was a subscriber to our local paper for nearly forty years, until it was scooped up by a larger company that turned every local article into an editorial. Also, it became very polarized and politically biased. Following that, our deliveries became erratic, so I got fed up and dropped it. After that long it took some adjustment to drink coffee without my paper but I survived. I get emails nearly every day with new irresistible limited time offers that I somehow do resist.
I get the local paper that comes once a week. I read the rest online with my coffee every morning, including this one. While I miss the paper, it’s nice to have so many sources of the same story.
I prefer to read the print edition. Nothing like sitting down to breakfast and perusing the paper. However delivery became so inconsistent that we had to quit the print edition and depend on the digital subscription. I do get the print edition of a small weekly local paper though.
Will be dropping the local paper when my subscription ends. The quality has been going down hill for the last few months and there is very little left I am interested in. It is a shame that local papers will be going away due to the expenses required to publish quality material.
It is becoming more and more difficult to find HS or college grads that can write a coherent sentence.
Agreed.
When I was still working I got a daily paper, after retiring I didn’t continue my subscription, so I may have glanced at a paper a few times over the last 22 years but never read it front to back. Just get up, live each day to the fullest and go to bed.
When local paper raised it’s prices, moved editorial offices 300 miles from area, I quit.
Only thing that I really miss is the Sunday comics and the ads. But, not worth $5 to me.
There are three local weekly papers that actually cover local news.
Soon, actual paper news papers will be gone.
Local paper is rehash of New York Times, few local stories. Newspapers reporting is too bias to get an real news from.
At $4, plus tax for a single copy of The Toronto Globe & Mail, it has been easy to transition to online news. Sad, but true.
After having a subscription to the Louisville Ky ” Courier Journal ” for over 35 years I cancelled it do to the ever increasing Liberal Marxist leanings and outright printed Lies that were easy to verify that they were printing ” untruths “
I get the NY Times news bulletin by email every day, for $4.00 a month. In addition to most of the articles from the paper, that includes a link to the front page of their print edition, which I read every day.
I subscribe to the local print edition which is only 2 days per week. I work for a local community college and need to be informed about any news they report. I also pick up the free weekly newspaper which generally has better articles and more news.
I also subscribe to the local edition (online version) of our vacation spot (we would like to move there someday) which is also only 2 days per week.
I spent 50 years in print. First as a reporter, then eventually as publisher. I loved newspapers and believed in their important role in maintaining our democracy. Today, I’m almost embarrassed to admit that. Most newspapers are just opinion pieces or mouth pieces, abandoning their objective responsibility and chasIng the sensational or entertainment stories. No, I don’t read newspapers any longer. If I want cheap thrills, I can find plenty on the internet.
Wow good perspective that a 50 year participant cannot stand the drivel that constitutes A paper today. I got rid of the local paper due to the obvious bias and now only read the WSJ.
My current home has a real local paper twice a week.
I read the daily paper in my old home town for decades, even after it was bought by Gannett and became USA Today lite with a few scraps of local news. I just check the obituaries online now.
I read the print edition of the New York Times for decades. Now I subscribe to the online edition. Times change.
Only have weekly paper and do read it.
Our local paper is a weekly, so daily is not a real option. Some weeks I read most of it online the day before it hits the PO Box (house delivery is not an option for our local paper. My husband rarely looks at the online version, but faithfully reads the print copy when it arrives on Thursdays.
We’d read it daily if we could find one anymore!
I used to subscribe to and read our daily newspaper for 30 years but between the nonsense making its way into print and the delivery turning to crap, will I get it today?, canceled in 2010.
Newsprint is my preferred choice. My local paper has cut back to 3 days weekly but of course raised the price. One more price increase and I may be done.
Here in Canton, OH my local paper was bought up by Gannett just before the covid. The quality went down and now it has very little local news. We used to only get the Fri-Sun papers, but I ended the subscription last month. The Sunday paper used to take a couple hrs to read now it only takes 20 min.
I don’t read any local newspapers because they have gotten way too liberal with their opinions and editorials.
Afraid you may learn something?
I like your question. I read newspapers and other sources from those that are much more conservative than I am for the very reason that I want to learn and understand other folks’ opinions.
Liberal meaning “enlightened”. Proud liberal.
From my earliest memory (~1961) until I got married and left town Chattanooga had two newspapers, a morning one and an afternoon one. Sometime later the afternoon paper was acquired by the morning paper. Since the acquisition the quality of the surviving paper has steadily declined (ads have fallen along with the number of pages and the size of the pages). In the last year we finally stopped subscribing, at least partially. The paper offered a heavily discounted rate for 4 days per week — Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. However I doubt that we will continue once the current subscription lapses. There just isn’t much there beyond the comics and obituaries. The “news” is largely gone entirely. A rival, totally on-line “paper,” largely composed of retirees from the former afternoon paper, that is supported by on-line ads is now my source for local/Chattanooga “news.”
Local, small town newspapers are a great way to find out what events are happening when we’re traveling. We’ll always pick them up to look for things like farmers markets, street fairs, arts & live music etc.
We haven’t subscribed to a newspaper in years, but we get a weekly news magazine.
Funny that folks won’t read the paper because of “liberal or conservative bias”. Most of the national news is from other sources, most of which just state the facts. If you read the editorials, then yes, you get “their opinion”. Do these folks think social media gives them a truer picture? Social media is over 70% opinion, much of it nonsense. A little logical deduction can usually sort out what’s in the paper, if your smart enough to do it.
👍 Agree, amazing how many people are afraid of listening to opinions other then theirs. Liberal or Conservative I’m open to listening and agree or not.
I haven’t read any articles that just reported facts nor heard any on the TV in 20 years. What they call facts are twisted to support an opinion. I knew a retired TV news director who said he would have fired all of today’s so called journalists because of that. He said it is often reflected in their body language and tones. That can’t/won’t report facts without expressing opinions.
Epoch times, once a week! Excellent newspaper. Mailed to my home! I love it!!!
‘excellent paper’ – Thanks, I needed a good laugh!
Stopped my subscription to Louisville “Courier Journal” about 5 years ago. I read it everyday since the late 60s. Was bought out by Gannet, and content went way down. Sad. It was once a great newspaper. I really miss it.
Like Chuck, I enjoy picking up small town newspapers when we travel. Great fun, and always gives you a feel for the area. And, I get a chance to do a crossword puzzle on real newsprint. Priceless!
Read 5 digital papers daily, but the printed copy only comes on Wednesday’s and Sundays.
I read our local paper almost every day…I receive an email from the paper and access their electronic version on my tablet thru a URL link. I can also access thru their app but the link works better. Most of the national news is a day old by the time it makes it into our paper and most of the stories come from national news outlets that can be accessed near real-time if so desired. I read the paper for the local news. BTW, our paper tries very hard to offer opinions from both sides of the political spectrum…it doesn’t hurt to try to understand where the other side is coming from. That’s how we solve our problems, not by throwing accusations.
I read our local daily newspaper every day we’re home. When in the RV I’ll read the electronic version sometime.
Reading the daily newspaper used to be part of my morning routine up until about 10 years ago, however, after traveling fulltime in our RV for 4 years we purchased a home. I called the Subscription Department of our daily newspaper and ordered seven days delivery. After getting the paper for a week I found there was little to no readable content, only tons of ads, I canceled. I do not, by and large, like reading the newspaper online, likely some psychological quirk, so I have not read a newspaper for almost 10 years.
Haven’t read the print copy in decades, but I do read the e-version and have a sub to the NY Times and Washington Post as well. It’s important to support local journalism!! If for no other reason than to have the Fifth Estate keep an eye out for bad politicians.
We haven’t had a newspaper delivered in many years. I cancelled my paper because we never knew if or when we’d get one. Now I will buy the Sunday paper for my wife every week but I don’t read it. Why should I support a politically biased industry anyway.
I don’t get a newspaper but do get quite a number of magazines, that I constantly read, to include news magazines. I keep up with what is happening but just a couple weeks late – but then again, I have been late most of my life.
I marked “Yes” because I read the print edition on my computer. It appears just like the print edition on my computer.
I do get the paper on Sundays and Wednesdays for the ads and stuff but still read it on my laptop.
The only time we have read a print edition that I can remember is when staying in a hotel that provided a free copy.
Hard to find a local paper published in our area any more. Plus, with traveling as much as we do it would be a nightmare canceling, restarting, etc.
local paper only. i don’t trust the big city daily paper (chgo tribune, sun times) or the big 3-networks. i think they are actively working against the best interests of our country.
Our local newspaper went out of business a couple years ago.
We are full-time, and I only read print version when camping in the summer in the driveway of a friend in Colorado who gets the paper. I do like that, and may subscribe when we are in our winter quarters in Arizona.
Having spent my entire career in the daily newspaper business I thought I’d have newsprint in my hands daily. But two successive shoulder surgeries made holding and reading the newspaper difficult. Now I’m 100% digital and subscribe to four daily newspapers. I can read them anywhere, even today when I’m a long way from home.
I subscribe to 2 newspapers but read both on line