I get the Indianapolis Star 7 days a week. Our local, the Herald-Bulletin, is not worth paying for, but I browse it on the website a couple times a week.
I subscribe but, honestly, I rarely read it. When I do read it, it’s mostly for the local news and the editorial page. I get almost all of my other news online. I was thinking about unsubscribing but then the paper guy stopped by to chide me for leaving for the weekend and allowign the papers to pile up and wound up telling me his entire life story and how he was gonna start driving his “hotrod” again when he lost a hundred pounds and could fit behind the wheel again and how his momma left him the house 'cause he was the only one who didn’t have a family, and on and on and on and now I feel guilty about canceling it.
No Paper. I get all my news online or via the radio.
I get two, our local rag and the NY Times. The rag is for the local news when they bother to print it, and the part of wire service stories they print before they cut them off for lack of space. They edit with a paper cutter. Once they cut in the middle of a sentence, and they often cut between a question the writer asks and the answer in the story.
We used to get three, the Mercury News also, but the people who own the local paper bought the Murky News, and the overlap was getting too big. We still get it on Sunday, though.
No, but I browse a local paper at work. Occasionally the *Wall Street Journal * as well.
Or maybe it’s the New York Times…
I have a subscription to the Saturday paper only. And I don’t always get around to reading it. But with that one paper, and the one free local paper we get, it is just enough to line the cat’s litterbox.
I try to avoid the news otherwise. No radio, no news on the Internet, no newsshows on TV.
I couldn’t imagine life without a daily paper. The one of the town where I live now (pop. 80k) is really good - readers in an university town have high standards, and they meet them (I don’t like the editorial line, though - too brown-nosing our green major, too critical on us socialists). As a rough estimate it’s three pages of international content/day, eight national, four state, ten district and ten town (counting culture and sports for all levels). In my letter box before 5:30 am without fail; good for breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner (to read, of course)
We used to get the paper every day when we were growing up. As an adult, a phone solicitor once offered me a month’s subscription for free. I got it but soon realized it felt like a waste of paper and resources. There was just me and I didn’t read enough of it to make it feel justifiable in my eyes.
Now I only get a paper when I’m eating out. I like reading as I eat. Afterward, I gather the paper up neatly and leave it there in hopes that others will enjoy it too.
I read the paper every morning. It is by far the most efficient use of my time in getting news.
For instance, I want to see the sports scores. I’m a Mets fan and want to know what happened in their game on the West Coast.
Newspaper: open to sports section, read the score.
TV: Turn on the TV. Tune to ESPN. Wait until they’ve gone through scores and highlights of the entire league (or maybe both leagues). No, go to another station. Wait until they do the sports.
Internet: Turn on computer. Wait for it to boot. Wait for AIM to log on. Click on browser. Wait for page.
By the time I get the news from other sources, I could have read half the newspaper.
Bonus: you can read the paper on the toilet.
In addition, the newspaper covers stories in much more detail than TV news, and is more likely to cover an important story that doesn’t have any neat pictures.
Ultimately, TV news is just too trivial and superficial. It’s people reading the first two paragraphs of the AP report; the newspaper is more likely to have the entire AP report.
And you don’t have to sit through news you aren’t interested in in order to see the news that’s relevant. I can just skip over the Brittney Spears story instead of wasting five minutes waiting for some real news.
I get two or three: *The Globe and Mail *at home, and The Toronto Star (and sometimes 24 Hours for the crossword puzzle) on my way to school.
I don’t take the paper—they deliver it to me. (Seriously, dude, “take a daily paper” must be an idiom I’m not familiar with. It looks weird to me.)
Reading the paper is part of my morning routine. I agree with *RealityChuck that it is the most efficient way of getting news. I can spend time on the details of the stories that matter to me and skip or skim whatever doesn’t interest me. Getting news online has certain PITA aspects, especially when I’m at home with my dial-up connection.
There’s a copy of the Seattle Times in our break room at work. Like most daily newspapers, it’s terrible, but I usually read it anyway.
The last daily newspaper I personally was a subscriber to was the Centre Daily Times of State College, PA, around 1992. Pretty good sports section, little else.
Now I get my news online or from NPR.
A “daily paper” is shorthand for a newspaper that’s published daily; some papers are weekly or some other schedule. You might also say “news daily”, “daily newspaper”, or somesuch.
“Take” and “Subscribe to” are synonyms.
I’m a periodicals librarian. I have less than no desire to get the daily paper! I read the big local stories online.
I get one for free most mornings - of course, I deliver papers, so it’s a small job perk. I usually read one or two sections, but I’m not particularly impressed with my paper’s coverage of national and international news. If I didn’t get one for free from work, there’s no possibility that I’d subscribe. Way too much of the paper is just junk advertising that gets tossed out almost immediately. And too many of the stories are pulled straight off the wire - I swear there’s about twice as much content from the AP, NY Times and Washington Post as there is from our paper’s writers. I would love to have a Sunday subscription to the NY Times, but right now I don’t have the time to read it and they’d just end up piling up in a corner of my room (I’ll get around to reading last month’s Book Review any day now, I swear!).
I read the Detroit Free Press everyday. In my life we have gone from 3 to 2 to 1 daily paper. Originally we had The Detroit Times, The Detroit News and The Free Press. They killed the unions ,eliminated the competition and we are down to one. Sad.
Oh, forgot to mention that in addition to the two papers we subscribe to, we also read the two freebie local weeklies.
Can’t miss out on local politics, concert reviews (and juvenile gripes about those reviews in letters to the editor), News of the Weird and classified ads for Couples Seeking Alternate Primates.
My grandfather was the managing editor of our hometown paper, so I was raised to read the paper every day. I’ve always subscribed to a daily paper (I’m 50). I don’t read it as thoroughly as I ought to, but it would feel wrong to stop subscribing.
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