4.95 for the Sunday paper now, are you kidding me ?
Six bucks for the Sunday N.Y. Times, which is a lot to pay for an oversized edition of Trump Panic.
We dropped our newspaper subscription a few months ago when we got a notice that it was going up to over $100 a month. The daily paper over the years has gone from four sections to three to two, and is small enough that it would blow down the street on a windy day. The Sunday paper likewise has shrunk to about three or four sections and is about 80% ads and inserts. Considering that there were some weeks where two or three newspapers might go unread, it was an easy choice for us. We went to an online subscription which is a fraction of the price.
I’m going to miss newspapers, I was a big fan. But with the ready availability of information out there, only the die hards still subscribe. It’s a shame, though, because there are so many Americans who can’t tell bullshit from news. The ready availability of bullshit is no fair trade for a good old fashioned paper.
Can’t argue about the value for money, but for those nostalgic for the good old days, that $4.95 today is equal to 57 cents in 1960 dollars. Just to keep it in perspective.
I’m surprised there are so many advertisers, for something nobody reads.
Philadelphia Inquirer, kind of lefty oriented but I like the suduku, cryptogram and crossword.
Sometimes the coupons are ok.
We used to get the Sunday papers and the ads and inserts were actually useful, in learning what was on sale in various stores. And there were usually multiple coupon inserts, so if you were into that sort of thing, you could earn back much of the cost of the paper in discounts. Plus the actual content of the paper was enough that you could be reading for most of the day. That’s particularly true for a big-city paper like the NYT (and actually they send part of the Sunday paper out on Saturdays with that day’s paper).
I think there’s still a whole set of people who go through all those those ads and clip every coupon they find. They “save” hundreds of dollars buying things they otherwise would never want or need.
Only when you’re close to New York. Out here in the Bay Area all the Sunday sections come on Sunday.
Yeah it is expensive, but worth every penny. In depth coverage of stuff you don’t see many other places. Not to mention the Book Review, Business, and the crossword puzzles. Plus I’m paying for our democracy and investigative journalism. The ACLU doesn’t give me so much to read.
We also get the Mercury News on Sunday on a special deal which I think is less than a dollar a week. But since Knight Ridder sold it the news parts are crap. Used to be a good paper, now nothing like a good paper.
Although, to be fair, a Sunday Edition of the NYT in 1965 was only 30 cents. The Sunday paper in most cities would have been perhaps half that in 1960.
I pay over $200 a month for a sub to the NYTimes. It comes by truck from Boston (except on Sundays when, inexplicably, it is the Buffalo edition) and then some guy drives around town delivering it. Expensive as hell, but I judge it worth it. Our “local” Montreal Gazette (actually edited in Toronto with a bit of local news) is hardly worth the effort of opening it.
I think the Las Vegas Review Journal is now $6 on Sunday, but I could be wrong: I stopped buying the newspaper when Sheldon Adelson bought it. Fuck him.
The sad thing is that the Sunday paper, even a few years ago,* was a hefty thing that you could read for a week, with lots of ads.
Now, the Denver paper is even smaller than the Sunday edition of the little daily in the small town where my mother used to live. It’s really kind of pitiful.
*Eight years ago, for instance, when my dog, a border collie mix, was a puppy, I thought it would be cute if he brought in the newspaper but, as a puppy, he couldn’t quite manage it. He could grab it but he couldn’t wrestle it up the front porch stairs. Well, a Chihuahua puppy could manage it now.
Where is this?
I’m one of them, although in my case, those coupons are used for things I DO want and/or need.
Most newspapers have a Sunday-only subscription option, and some also have Wednesday and Sunday options, also for the ads.
double post?
We just renewed our sub. Same price as last year which is a miracle. Mrs. FtG loves the paper. I just use it for the puzzles. Comes with online e-edition for free.
Used to be able to call and get a big discount by threatening to quit. But they’ve outsourced all their customer stuff to the worse company in America. Paper late? Standard response: your deliverer’s car was in a crash. This before they even find out who/where I am. Must be a lot of crashes happening all the time.
The weekday papers have become pathetic. Hardly anything to them. The Sunday paper (as well as Black Friday, etc.) are still good sized thanks to ads. But in terms of content it’s still pretty bad.
No scores for last evening games since they put the paper to bed during the evening which is strange for a morning paper. (I always preferred an evening paper to read after dinner. No time in the morning. I guess I was the only one who liked those.)
Wow! Our paper is $138.00 per year.
Oddly, the cover price for the Sunday paper is $3.00, so it costs $18.00 more per year(plus gas) if you drive to the store 52 times for the weekly Sunday paper than it does for them to deliver a paper to your home every single day(312 times - no Saturday edition). They offer no Sunday-only subscription.
https://www.aclu.org/ Really? Reading the blogs as well as news?