Daily Paper Delivery

Narragansett said:
Does anybody still get the paper home delivered? I just renewed my Mother's subscription 965.00 for the year. The sunday paper is 3/4' thick, down from about 2". The classified used to be 4 pages. Now they are 1/4 of a single page.

Actually it used to be 2 papers. The Providence Journal in the morning, and the Evening Bulletin at night. Now it is just one rag in the morning.

If it were not for my mother, I would never buy it. Especially seeing as I do not have a puppy;)
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It's been many years since they had the Evening Bulletin, I really missed the Rhode Islander in the Sunday paper, the only paper I get now is the Narragansett Times, it comes out twice a week.

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My mother and dad were not educated past high school, but both were avid readers. We got a daily paper and the Reader's Digest. Most of the papers I wrote in high school and many ideas, came out of the Digest.

I started delivering papers when I was 10 or so. My son got a route when he was old enough and as a result, I acted as a substitute carrier up into my 60's. Most of my Smiths were bought with paper route money. Also, whichever Golden Retriever lived with us at the time, enjoyed the early morning walks.

We now get the local paper and the Chicago Tribune daily. It is expensive, but I like to read the obits and rest of the paper with my morning tea. I also read the larger paper that has obits from my home town. I also just resubscribed to my hometown weekly.

I am proud to say I am a reader.
 
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Only reason we still get it is because Mom can no longer remember how to run the computer to read it online, and she still likes to read it. The Houston Chronicle started going downhill as soon as the Houston Post went under and they did not have any competition left. The Chronicle is so slanted now that all I do is read the sports and comics. Even the sports these days have gone from entertainment to political theater. When Mom is gone, the paper will be as well. Darn thing costs almost $500/year these days.
 
I guess I'm such a creature of habit that I just enjoy my early morning paper while I'm drinking my coffee. But my new carrier is so inconsistent with my delivery that I never know whether it will be in my mailbox when I get up or not. It arrives anywhere from 4AM to 8:30 AM and I never know which day that will be. If it's late I read it online but it's just not the same. I would cancel it but I just like my quiet time with my paper and coffee in the morning.
 
Wow! I had no idea print papers had become so expensive. Last print papers I read were at the office, company's dime, during my lunch breaks, before I retired ten years ago.

Nowadays I subscribe to two national papers, digital editions, and read them on my iPad, which I find an easy, comfortable way to consume them. I also peruse Google news, a news article aggregator, most days.

I retain the packing paper from Amazon boxes to serve the role of yesteryear's newspapers in charcoal chimney BBQ lighting and counter/floor protection, etc., for messy jobs.
 
I have understood that the only San Antonio newspaper is running on fumes, little advertising revenue coming in, and circulation has fallen sharply. It is no longer being printed in San Antonio but rather in Houston and copies are trucked in from there. As I said earlier, I do not miss it at all, and I won't be crying at its funeral-if there is one.
 
Narragansett said:
Does anybody still get the paper home delivered? I just renewed my Mother's subscription 965.00 for the year. The sunday paper is 3/4' thick, down from about 2". The classified used to be 4 pages. Now they are 1/4 of a single page.
Actually it used to be 2 papers. The Providence Journal in the morning, and the Evening Bulletin at night. Now it is just one rag in the morning.
If it were not for my mother, I would never buy it. Especially seeing as I do not have a puppy;)
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If you fish they make excellent fish wraps or put on a picnic table for the grands treat watermelon OR fire starter for fireplace or wood stove.
 
I had the Fort Worth Star Telegram delivered to my house for many years. The price got so high I switched it to the computer edition. I bought a new HP laptop and the price of the laptop was cheaper than one years subscription. I read it every morning with breakfast but now I have to use a mouse to change the pages. Modern times I guess.
 
News on the net

I read news on the internet but try to keep a sharp eye out for clear bias in articles, no matter the source.

Seems to me that the Associated Press (AP), Reuters and BBC still make an attempt to be accurate and unbiased in their news reporting.

So I read, listen and view news from many sources - left, right and center and try to figure out what I think is fact and what is not. I think it is important to be just as skeptical of reports from sources that jibe with one's own politics as well as those with which one disagrees.

News - it's a free for all out there! Beware.
 
My Dad was a newspaperman his whole life. He started out setting type and then was a reporter and an editor.

I used to get home delivery of the local paper wherever we lived. The papers got smaller and smaller and finally I just stopped. No point now.

I haven't read a printed newspaper in at least 6 years now.
 
DWalt said:
I have understood that the only San Antonio newspaper is running on fumes, little advertising revenue coming in, and circulation has fallen sharply. It is no longer being printed in San Antonio but rather in Houston and copies are trucked in from there. As I said earlier, I do not miss it at all, and I won't be crying at its funeral-if there is one.
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The kids don't read. Some don't even know how to because of the dumbing down of the school system. Regardless, way too many don't even care about what's going on.

Some seniors don't buy the paper because it's too expensive on a fixed income.

I poopoo all the syndicated columns because it's all ****. BUT, the local news is important to me. What house burned down?, What robbery occurred?, Who died?

I also subscribe to the local newspaper where my camp is located. Same reasons. They mail it to me.

If all else fails, I have paper to lay down on my workbench when I paint something. Or, at camp we need a fire starter to get the cooking started.

Y'all have different lifestyles and such. I just think that when all the Millennials are the majority, us old folks might just ......
 
Back when I was in high school I always knew when the Sunday paper arrived by the thud on the front porch. It was big enough to use as a wheel chock. Dad would divide it up and we all read it in sections. Dave and I would fight for the funnies. Mom would grab the sale papers and a pair of scissors and wade through the coupons.

The longest continually published Sunday paper is the Cincinnati Enquirer (1848) which can now be slid under your front door.
 
I subscribe to the electronic version. Delivery of the paper to the house was outrageously expensive.
Local paper has an electronic version the looks like the printed version. I can turn the page a peruse the paper as if it were printed.
Local papers are going the way of the dodo bird.
 
Every year the paper gets more expensive. Last April I paid $625.00 for what they specified as up to a year. That means if they include any special features they reduce your subscription by three to nine dollars. So, my one year usually ends up being nine to ten months. That seems a little harsh, but what is worse, they charge $9.00 for a paper one a year bill.
Right after I paid my bill in April they announced they were no longer going to publish a paper on Saturdays, but I was free to read the E-edition. Now they have quit publishing on holidays. I figure that's sixty days a year without a "paper" paper.

In addition to that the paper has gone extremely left, very few classifieds, it's printed in Kansas City so the news is now history and they got rid of Get Fuzzy, my favorite funny.

Their web site is cumbersome and difficult to read. I hate it, but this is my last year for a printed paper.
 
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