We get two newspapers delivered daily, and three on Sundays. All are delivered by the same person, and we definitely recycle all of our old papers.
We get the Hartford Courant and a smaller local newspaper delivered daily. The Courant is the major metropolitan paper in the area, but its coverage of local news does not extend to our town. The local paper does cover news in our town, but is definitely a second-rate newspaper. However, our subscription to the local paper also happens to include a digital subscription to the Washington Post, which is the main reason we’ve kept it going.
Finally, we have Sunday delivery of the New York Times, which also includes a digital subscription.
At this point, during the week, I mainly get my news by reading the digital version of the New York Times and Washington Post.
On Sundays, I do still read the hard copy of the New York Times and Hartford Courant that we get.
Still get the Raleigh N& O delivered every day. I like doing the puzzles, which is a little difficult online. The paper sub includes access to the e-edition, which I read when I’m out of town. I occasionally go to the website to check out comments on articles, just to see the responses they generate.
Unfortunately, in the past year the paper has been shrinking, and some of the content I liked has been cut back. Of course, there hasn’t been a reciprocal reduction in the subscription rate.
It sounds like your local paper is owned by Gannett (which, it looks like, owns over 100 newspapers). My parents are still up in Green Bay (not too far from you, if memory serves), and their local paper, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, was bought by Gannett in 1980, and it’s now in a similar state to your own paper. Their national news section is largely (if not entirely) provided by USA Today, and a long story in that section might be eight paragraphs.
The Press-Gazette still does a very good job on Packer coverage (which, I imagine, is one of the things that has let them keep what readership they still have), but the rest of the paper is skimpy as hell.
Oh, and their comics section is largely “strips that were popular in 1980.”
I get the Indianapolis Star delivered 7 days a week. It is good, solid journalism. My hometown paper, the Anderson Herald-Bulletin, is nothing to write home about. When I have occasion to read it in the barber shop, it takes less than 10 minutes to read, and half of that is the comics page. We have a mobile app for the NY Times and the Washington Post, but I don’t read them every day.
I don’t, although I read The New York Times online daily and pay for it. My father still gets the Times delivered daily, but he is 86 years old, so he’s used to reading it on paper. (And then he’ll call me to recommend I read an article. He’ll say things like, “It’s on page A4 in the upper right-hand corner.” I’ve tried telling him that page numbers and locations on the page mean absolutely nothing to me but he doesn’t get it.) When I visit him, I’m amazed to see how small the Times is today. The paper is several inches narrower than it once was, and has many fewer pages. The Sunday paper used to be enormous with many sections and weighing five or ten pounds but it’s a lot lighter now.
The only good newspaper in Memphis is a free weekly I usually pick up when I’m grocery shopping. Honestly I rarely even read that one. Local news is all online these days and honestly our local paper was always about 70% ads anyway.
I voted “Yes: 1-2 Days a week”, which is technically correct, but in practice I don’t read it. It is a side effect of the Seattle Times pricing that online access is slightly cheaper with a physical Sunday delivery. So we get it delivered, but I only read articles online.
I also subscribe to the New York Times online, which doesn’t involve any deliveries. I’m not sure if it counts as a newspaper, but I also subscribe to the Economist, which is a weekly physical delivery that I actually read.
Mrs. Charming and Rested suggested we get a Sunday paper subscription about five years ago. We gave it a go, but every Sunday morning, we’d pull out our laptops and read the paper online. The print copy went untouched. We thought maybe we’d use a coupon every once in a while but we mostly get store brand items so even the coupons were useless. We cancelled our trial subscription and went online only.
I still prefer a physical paper to the online version, for several reasons:
faster for me to read (no time wasted loading new pages)
easier to work puzzles on paper
familiarity - I know where to find everything
don’t like to do in depth reading on my phone, too much scrolling
That said, if the value of the paper declines any farther I’ll have to go cold turkey. Price keeps going up, content keeps shrinking and writing gets poorer/more opinion based/more slanted.
Ex husband used to insist on keeping all the newspapers until he’d gone through them. Which he never did. We had an endless stack of old papers. I don’t even bring one in the house anymore. I’ll read it on line. I’ll pick up the Daily Texan at work because they run the NYT crossword.
the Austin paper isn’t very good. The last time I saw one on paper, it was at least 50% ads. And the ink bothers my eczema. So no. No papers for me. Online suits me fine.
Quit the Kansas City Star about 8 years ago. Frankly it was getting so left wing biased and boring the only good parts were the comics and puzzles anyways.
Now occasionally someone will leave a KC Star laying out on the breakroom at work and I will read it. There was a recent article by the editor admitting the paper had a liberal bias and was wanting “dialogue” on how to be more open.
And frankly, I did notice a recent article in the online edition where they actually asked hard questions to a liberal candidate.
That is true-- however, on the whole, IMO, even though it runs $6/Sunday (the National Edition, at least) and is far lighter than it once was, it’s still far better than both the Charlotte Observer and Greenville News combined.
Why do I say this? Because the Observer is a McClatchy paper, and the Greenville News is a Gannett paper, and both of those companies have cut way down on the content in their papers, while inflating their cover prices beyond belief!
In fact, I was up town at my local Publix in Simpsonville with my nephew yesterday, and I was getting the New York Times, and I noticed that the Observer has inflated its Sunday cover price to $4-- $4! Outrageous, if you ask me.
I was honestly expecting a higher percentage of people to answer “No”. I know we skew older on this board then the general public and more likely to read the news seemed like a good guess too but I expected a higher percentage to rely on online resources as opposed to a physical paper subscription.
I figured there were mass transit commuters that still enjoyed the paper, that seems to be the bulk of the newspaper sales in the general NYC metro area.
I get it every day because my GF used to work there and she wants it. It’s pretty worthless now. They print at 6 pm so most local sports news is not printed until the following day , a Monday game shows up on Wed. They used to have a lot of high school FB coverage and they dropped all of that .
We subscribed to the Washington Post, daily and Sunday, until shortly after we brought the Firebug home from Russia in early 2009.
The sudden time demands of new parenthood resulted in unread newspapers piling up really fast, so we switched our subscription to Sunday only. When we found we couldn’t keep up with even that, we stopped subscribing.
(There’s a bit of a gap in my posting history here at the Dope for several months of 2009 as well. We didn’t even have time for much Interneting for awhile.)
Once we sufficiently adapted to parenthood to have some time to take in the outside world again, we had gotten comfortable with getting our news off the Web, and never resumed subscribing to a dead-trees paper.
ETA: We have had a subscription to the online WaPo for a couple of years now.
All are delivered by the same person, and we definitely recycle all of our old papers.
