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OP: this would have been much better as a poll.
Zero.
When I was still working, the store had a subscription to the local paper – two copies every day, in the break room – but they dropped to one copy a few years after I started there, and then cancelled completely. Haven’t read a real paper in years.
NY Times every day.
Mercury News on Sundays only, because it is dirt cheap - like $12 for a year.
I don’t own a tablet, and I have other things to do on my laptop. And paper is just better, but I’m old.
I was a subscriber to the Seattle Post Intellengcer for many years till they quit doing a print edition. Switched over the the Seattle Times till they could not guarantee delivery before I left for work in the morning. Continued with the weekend editions and an occasional daily if the paper machine had been filled. A huge price increase forced me to cut back to the Sunday paper only. I dropped that last fall after they started charging a service charge for delivery due to a lack of customers in my area. I now pay $10 a month for a daily e-edition, that allows me to customize what I see every morning.
Is it movies in general you find “impossible”, or just widescreen ones?
None. Used to get the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the AJC in Atlanta, KC Star in KC and the Globe in Boston. Dropped the WSJ when it was bought by Murdoch. Dropped all paper versions soon after that.
Haven’t touched a printed newspaper in at least ten years. Subscribe to two online, NYT and WP.
Zero, when I’m at home. All the news in the paper is online (like, on their literal website), even for the local community newspaper. There’s absolutely no reason for me to read the dead tree edition.
When I travel, however, I love reading local papers and like to start my day over breakfast with a copy of the paper.
1 - The declining SF Chronicle. Mostly it is very old habit - I like relaxing with a physical paper over a leisurely breakfast or lunch. Digital media just doesn’t have the same tactile feel and egg yolk can be tricky getting off a device.
I at varying times have an additional 1-2 entirely digital subscriptions, generally NYT and/or WaPo (right now just the latter).
Dead tree newspaper reading? Zero. I subscribe to the New York Times and Washington Post, but read on line only.
I also read our local paper, the Hawaii Tribune Herald, on line, and I tried to subscribe - but they will only take your money if they get to send you a physical copy, so I just read on line for free. I’d support them financially if they’d take my money without forcing a dead tree version on me.
Two: Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal.
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zero as we live in a digital world now. Millenial wilil approve this comment.
About ten years ago, my library stopped subscribing to all metropolitan dailies, and only carried the small town weeklies from the surrounding counties.
I have to hunt down a supply of printed news for our bird’s cage.
Pre-Covid - I would always pick up the two daily freebee papers on my way into town, and read them on the train or at lunchtime. Since Covid, no need to go into town, and last I saw, the boxes housing the freebees were empty, so I don’t know if they are publishing anymore.
If I’m in a food court, and see the local daily paper left on the next table, I will read through it, and leave it for the next person. Otherwise - I’ll check the daily’s online site (if there’s no paywall) to follow up on items I had heard on TV or radio. I haven’t bought a paper in years.
I just remembered, my wife insists on getting the Sunday NYT. Reading it every Sunday was a huge part of my weekend in the “old days.” For at least the last two months, we’ve never even taken it out of the blue bag it comes in until we’re ready to recycle it.
I still subscribe to my local newspaper, the Westfalenpost, though actually I hardly have the money (it’s about € 40 per month for daily delivery except for Sundays). It’s an old habit, I’ve been reading this paper for more than 45 years, since I started reading actually, and I can’t imagine taking breakfast without it. It also gives me an overview of what’s happening worldwide, countrywide and locally. All other news I get online, I also have stopped reading dead-tree magazines of all sorts long ago.
From a UK perspective: The Guardian Monday to Saturday, the weekly local free paper on a Friday (definitely suffering but unlike the local papers of decades ago, still just about hanging on and providing some genuine news),and occasionally one or two of the other freebees left lying ary on the Underground.
The print Guardian feels differently structured from the internet version and in that sense if you’re familiar with one style of reading it feels strange to switch to the other; though story by story it’s the same. And generally it’s in reasonable financial health.
The London freebee local (Evening Standard) is pretty hefty, mostly on the strength of property ads. There’s also the national Metro, which has a reputation for lively and concise presentation of a broad spread of news. But local papers in general are in real trouble, with advertising drying up and coverage of local issues declining as staff costs have reduced.
The only times I see a physical newspaper in my house are when my parents come to visit.