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Maddog 521
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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.
smithman 10
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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.
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.
sigp220.45
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
It seems most are owned by Gannet now and are all pretty much just slightly altered versions of USA Today, which is worse than worthless.
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.
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.
In the immortal words of Egon Spengler . . . "Print is dead . . . "
Newspapers are a great source of misinformation and disinformation.
They don't hold a candle to social media though. But, then again, newspapers are flammable.
They don't hold a candle to social media though. But, then again, newspapers are flammable.
Still have a daily NYT due mainly for its overseas information. Though it is now probably heading for cancellation in print form as the sub is just under $300 per quarter. Have a $1 per week on line sub to the WSJ which gives the printed weekend issue as well, and a comparable on-line version of the Guardian. Since I have no interest in sports, these suffice. Can also hit French, German and Spanish newspapers on line, so can overcome biases. Dave_n
twodog max
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Our local paper ceased delivery maybe 5 years ago. We had subscribed for many years. In our small community it used to be the only way to find out what was going on when and where.
It may be obsolete technology but it sure beats electronic versions IMO. Our local electronic version is so crammed with ads popping up it is impossible for me to read so not doing that.
The electronic age is not altogether all good.
It may be obsolete technology but it sure beats electronic versions IMO. Our local electronic version is so crammed with ads popping up it is impossible for me to read so not doing that.
The electronic age is not altogether all good.
My wife would always run to the grocery on Sundays to grab a paper. It's been ages since we've had one, just not worth the money. I gave up reading the editorial/opinion page long ago when it made me realize there are a whole lot of people dumber than I am.
We haven't had a paper delivered in 20 years other than a free trial of the Wall Steet Journal. When it actually showed up. When it wasn't soaked with rain or snow because the guy who delivered (not a kid) didn't feel like putting it in a bag. Or did but didn't tie the bag off.
I only know one couple that gets the paper delivered. Three actually. Both Boston failure and the weekly town newspaper.
I have no idea why, though.
I only know one couple that gets the paper delivered. Three actually. Both Boston failure and the weekly town newspaper.
I have no idea why, though.
Real information is disseminated in barber shops and beauty parlors, as it should be.
If my better would allow it, would stop the paper... when a lil guy I was a paper carrier for my neighborhood... almost 3 years.. bought my first car when I was 16... the Sunday & Wednesday papers were hugh... now the papers are as big as the advertisements used to be... and the comics stink too... just waiting for permission to pull the plug.
Our local paper is light weight, we get it in the mail.
Our local paper is a once a week thing. Only good for local news & obits. I only subscribe to The Epoch Times now.
DWalt
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That turned me away from the local newspaper more than anything else. The nearly unfathomable depth of the editorial opinion partisanship. It got to the point that about all I could tolerate reading were the comics pages. I care very little about sports, so there was no refuge to be found in the Sports section either.
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charlie sherrill
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Our local paper was bought out by Gannet, then politicized, then folded. The politicization, the lack of local news, the price of gas to deliver it, and computers killed it. Things change. In my younger days they had obits, local crime, pictures of sports teams, garden clubs, and other things of local interest, even a column of who was in the hospital and why, divorces, ( a good place to find a date) and a lot of other stuff. I haven't had one delivered in over 20 years because they basically became empty. I recently picked up one in Slidell, La. that still had most of these things plus the advertising that supports the paper. I don't live there or know any of the people that were written about but I wondered why if they can still do it why all the others can't.
And supermarket check-out lanes.
God I miss the Weekly World News. Now I have to get all my Bigfoot and extra terrestrial news from the internet and you know how dependable that is.
Remember this from 1980?
F4phantom
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Stopped getting the paper delivered about 15 years ago. I got too expensive and I was tired of reading only one side of the news.
mmb617
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I still subscribe to the local paper. I get up at 5 AM and the paper is always already delivered by then. The online version had a terrible format when it first started but they've revised it and now it's pretty good.
I would probably use the online one and do away with the hard copy version if it meant saving money, but for whatever reason the combination paper and online version is almost the same price as the online only version. (Less than $2/month difference) It has to be a lot cheaper for the publisher to not print papers yet those savings are not passed on to customers who opt for online only.
I like reading the local news and don't worry too much about national and international news since most of that is so biased that you don't know what to believe anyways.
I would probably use the online one and do away with the hard copy version if it meant saving money, but for whatever reason the combination paper and online version is almost the same price as the online only version. (Less than $2/month difference) It has to be a lot cheaper for the publisher to not print papers yet those savings are not passed on to customers who opt for online only.
I like reading the local news and don't worry too much about national and international news since most of that is so biased that you don't know what to believe anyways.
Sistema1927
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I keep threatening to drop our subscription to the "Albuquerque Urinal".
Thirty plus years ago, we took the Albuquerque Times in the evening, and the Albuquerque Journal in the morning. Two completely different editorial takes, and one tended to keep the other from going too far off the rails.
The Times folded years ago, and the Journal kept going further and further left. The page size is smaller now, and the paper get thinner and thinner. The Sunday version is probably 1/3 the size that it once was, and the daily is sometimes so small you wonder why it doesn't blow away before I go out to pick it up .
Thirty plus years ago, we took the Albuquerque Times in the evening, and the Albuquerque Journal in the morning. Two completely different editorial takes, and one tended to keep the other from going too far off the rails.
The Times folded years ago, and the Journal kept going further and further left. The page size is smaller now, and the paper get thinner and thinner. The Sunday version is probably 1/3 the size that it once was, and the daily is sometimes so small you wonder why it doesn't blow away before I go out to pick it up .
Canceled it about 15 yrs ago. I was already down to just Sunday morning. I liked the local business section and sports. They even had an outdoor section on Sunday. It became way to liberal for me. The editorial section was all leftist propaganda. I told them why I was canceling it.
I used to be an avid daily newspaper reader until about five years ago. Paper got so small, it wasn't even worth the money to have it delivered. Newspapers have become so liberal today that I don't even read them anymore.
