# How many newspapers do you read on a regular basis?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 17, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476 "2021-06-17T16:49:20Z")
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/1 "2021-06-17T16:49:20Z")
Actual newspapers, not websites. I am curious as to how we compare to the public at large when it comes to perusing printed news.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/2 "2021-06-17T16:56:12Z")
I read two on a regular basis-The Oregonian, and The New York Times.
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### Author:  [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/3 "2021-06-17T16:58:44Z")
Zero.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/4 "2021-06-17T16:59:01Z")
Zero.
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### Author:  [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/5 "2021-06-17T17:44:00Z")
nm. I read the question wrong.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/6 "2021-06-17T17:52:00Z")
Zero.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/7 "2021-06-17T18:26:17Z")
1 1/2. The national edition of the New York Times weekdays and the pitiful remnant of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/8 "2021-06-17T18:50:34Z")
Can you clarify? (Edit: this is a reply to the OP because a reply link doesn’t show up)
Do you mean:
1. Paper copies
2. Digital copies of the actual newspapers
3. News articles on the newspaper website
4. News articles on news aggregators
I read the NYT on its dedicated app and when individual articles that appear on Google News.
I read the Chicago Trib on a digital version of the newspaper itself and when individual articles appear on Google News
I read paper versions of the New Yorker.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/9 "2021-06-17T19:06:22Z")
Paper copies.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/10 "2021-06-17T19:07:09Z")
So not essentially digital scans of the same paper newspapers? That’s what the Trib is-
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/11 "2021-06-17T19:08:01Z")
Zero.
But what I don’t read on dead tree, my mother gladly makes up with reading five papers per week.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/12 "2021-06-17T19:09:23Z")
Zero. And I used to subscribe (and read) to both an morning and afternoon paper.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/13 "2021-06-17T19:12:41Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> So not essentially digital scans of the same paper newspapers? That’s what the Trib is-
Nope-just the paper copies.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/14 "2021-06-17T19:16:13Z")
Zero. I pay to get an e-copy of the NYT and my tiny hometown paper.
The only paper news publication I pay to get any more is The Week.
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### Author:  [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/15 "2021-06-17T19:16:25Z")
Zero.
I used to be a daily reader of the local paper, and a weekly reader of _The Economist_ (probably not quite what you meant, but it refers to itself as a newspaper). And I still am, in e-formats. But it’s been years since I’ve read any news in literal print.
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### Author:  [@Redcanoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redcanoe)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/16 "2021-06-17T19:18:38Z")
Zero…
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale1)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/17 "2021-06-17T19:22:40Z")
1 - Chicago Tribune. But quality has been slipping horribly, and I just heard my good friend and several of my fave writers took buyouts so, after tomorrow - 0. ☹
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/18 "2021-06-17T19:26:41Z")
One: the Chicago Tribune, to which I’ve had a dead-tree subscription since the early '90s. But, I find that I don’t read it every day anymore, and, as @Dinsdale1 notes, the quality of the paper has declined a lot, so I’m on the verge of cancelling my subscription, or at least going to digital-only.
I also have digital subscriptions to a few other papers (Washington Post, Green Bay Press-Gazette), but those have always been solely digital.
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### Author:  [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/19 "2021-06-17T19:28:08Z")
None. I read the local paper on-line during the week.
But I have a delivery subscription to the Sunday paper and I read that Sunday mornings.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-newspapers-do-you-read-on-a-regular-basis/944476/20 "2021-06-17T19:30:03Z")
Ok, I’m not here to fight the OP. I’m just curious as to why that’s a critical distinction.
I can understand distinguishing between articles on apps or aggregators, but I’m reading a version that is exactly the same as the printed version in layout, colors, fonts etc. If I printed it out, it’d look almost the same. FWIW, it’s the same as reading the paper to me, whereas reading linked individual articles is very different.
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