The past couple of months I was dating a woman who thought it rather remarkable I read a newspaper every day. While she was very intelligent and liked to read, actually reading a newspaper was something she didn’t get around to doing very often.
When I’m in a coffee shop/library/etc setting I may not be the only person reading a newspaper but I’m certainly the youngest. While I do read the news through other mediums (internet, television, radio) I just enjoy sitting down to a good paper before work and spooling up my brain before the tedium of work winds it down.
Good for you! I have to have my morning fix by reading a daily paper, but am afraid you noticed a sad trend. Fewer and fewer of the younger generation (for me, that is anybody 60 or younger) get their news from a paper. I assume that is the reason so many major papers are folding, after years of publication.
I am a computer phreak and use the Kindle for reading books, but I still want to get my news from a paper, where I can sit back, relax and pour through all the world, national and local news. Alas, you and I are probably a rapidly diminishing group.
No. Most of my classmates are in their twenties (I’m 30, so I guess I don’t count) and they are all extremely well-informed, especially in regards to politics.
It’s a pleasure to be able to have conversations about international political issues with knowledgeable people.
While I don’t particularly like the idea of newspapers going out of business, I don’t really see why this is a “sad” trend. I think the variety of sources and the speed that information is disseminated are for the most part good things.
I read the paper nearly every morning, but I work at a newspaper and really don’t have anything else to do. I get my news from the internet and the Dope.
I’m in my mid-twenties and I read the paper. In fact I read two, but not daily. One is a weekly and the other I just get on Sunday. But yes, we’re the odd ones.
I did when I took the train to work but now I live in an area that barely has a bus system. Unlike most others, regardless of age, I prefer to read off a screen. I have an online subscription that I read before work now that my commute is three miles instead of sixty five. I have a couple more weekly subscriptions that I read online as well. As far as coffee shop type quiet environments, if I don’t have my laptop with me, I’m perfectly happy to read an actual paper.
Only one of my three children still reads a paper on a regular basis. This distresses both me (a former journalist) and my wife (a retired teacher.) However, the one who still reads the paper is the one who has had the most problems with reading. I think maybe he does it to keep the discipline of reading a large number of short pieces on a daily basis.
I’m going to beek twenty soon (:eek:) and I read the papers with every meal. it’s not that I’m particularly interested in the wider world; it’s just that I like to have something to read while I eat (that won’t matter if it gets dirty).
When you call the Internet another medium, are you discounting reading a paper daily on the Web? I read the local paper, Politico, and the Financial Times every morning and the Economist throughout the week, but only the Economist in print. The others I read on the Web. I appreciate people who really value hiding behind an inky broadsheet with a cup of coffee, but I just want my news. I’m 25.
I’m twenty, and I read the newspaper as often as I can. I don’t have a subscription and usually I don’t pick one up, but when I do or when I find a copy it totally makes my day. There’s just something about spreading the newspaper out all over the table while my supper is cooking and poring over all the different sections, and reading the local news and the weird obscure columns and whatnot, then after dinner finishing off by doing the crossword puzzle. I love it.
I get the New York Times every day, and I’m in my late twenties. When I brought my future husband to meet my parents for the first time, my father (a man who reads 3-5 papers daily) asked him what newspaper he read every day, as a way to try to get a handle on who this guy was. Future husband (then 27) was confused by the question.
Yes, but are they reading a physical newspaper every day? Internet doesn’t count :). Not in this regard anyway - the argument ( the general argument, not sure about the OP ) is that the under-30 set is abandoning physical dead-tree-product newspapers for online media, not that they are necessarily more ignorant in aggregate.
One can be perfectly well-informed without reading an actual paper newspaper, but the fact that far fewer young people have the habit is one reason the medium is dieing.
I used to read the International section of the Christian Science Monitor just to keep up on foreign affairs, and when I lived in Britain I read The Times, but American daily papers in general are just too provincial.
I get most of my news here nowadays by lurking in GD, and frankly it comes with much more insightful analysis.
Newspaper, like on actual paper? I read the news every day online, but I wouldn’t read a news “paper” any sooner than I’d rock out to a phonograph or do my math assignments on an abacus.
I stopped reading the city paper when they reduced the required literacy level to about a 12 year old level. In addition, it seems that in trying to compete with t.v. news sources and USA Today (which I regard as little more than a tabloid), most city papers offer little in the way of well-researched quality investigative journalism and instead go for the quick hot story. Weekly news magazines (Time, Newsweek, and especially U.S. News and World Report) are especially egregious in this regard.
Sadly, the reliably best American news source today is probably The Daily Show.
I have to admit that I’ll read The Onion in print whenever I can find it, but I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for.
I recently mentioned in another thread that newspapers and magazines are the only way I care to get my news. I can’t stand television or radio news, and for whatever reason I don’t like reading long articles on a computer screen, which means I don’t frequent news websites.
But, for instance, I love the New York Times and read it daily.
I’m 25.
*Edit: I should add that this totally baffled my last boyfriend.
“You read the newspaper? Like, the actual object? Pieces of paper with words on them? Why?”
I will say that one reason I want a Kindle so bad is the prospect of downloading the newspaper daily and having that nice compact device to read it on.
Depends upon the radio station, obviously. My AM news radio station is absolutely fantastic. It leans a little right in the morning, and leans a little left in the afternoon. I solicit anyone to click on the “Listen Live” link, particularly during the morning hours, and tell me this isn’t first class reporting. Mind you, most of it is local news, but damned these guys are professional and balanced.