# My local newspaper didn't publish today, and didn't tell us they were going to (not) do this **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466 "2020-05-25T22:32:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/1 "2020-05-25T22:32:03Z")
I put this here because I don’t think it’s quite Pit-worthy, but it was sure annoying to go to several stores before I finally found YESTERDAY’S paper on a newsstand, and the clerk said, “Oh, yeah, we didn’t get any papers in this morning.” In the past, when the dead-tree paper was going to take a day off, they would always mention something in the day before’s edition, or do a combined issue. Yeah, I subscribe to a dead-tree paper. It’s not the same as reading it online, and I like the puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/2 "2020-05-25T22:35:45Z")
Yeah, I like a paper ‘paper’ Ours was down 3 days. They were waiting on PP masks and gloves. We got 4 papers worth of puzzles and ads on the first day back. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/3 "2020-05-26T00:37:05Z")
Yeah, I like the smell of newsprint, too. Hope all is well with your daily. I hate to see them go. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/4 "2020-05-26T01:05:01Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I put this here because I don’t think it’s quite Pit-worthy, but it was sure annoying to go to several stores before I finally found YESTERDAY’S paper on a newsstand, and the clerk said, “Oh, yeah, we didn’t get any papers in this morning.” > > In the past, when the dead-tree paper was going to take a day off, they would always mention something in the day before’s edition, or do a combined issue. > > Yeah, I subscribe to a dead-tree paper. It’s not the same as reading it online, and I like the puzzles. Did you go online to see if this was going to be permanent? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/5 "2020-05-26T01:13:07Z")
Another dead-tree paper devotee. In fact, once I had gotten settled in here, one of the first things I did was get a subscription to the News & Observer, which I’ve maintained ever since. Over the past year it’s been shrinking, however, and in March they stopped issuing it on Saturday (although they still put out a Saturday e-edition, and the Saturday comics and puzzled are included with the Sunday edition). They’ve also been printing full-page ads urging subscribers to register for the e-edition, which is included with the paper subscription, in case there are interruptions in delivering papers due to the coronavirus. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/6 "2020-05-26T01:22:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Did you go online to see if this was going to be permanent? No, it’s just for today. The website said they were going to do an online-only edition for today, to give the carriers a day off. Like I said, I just wished they had informed the rest of us first. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/7 "2020-05-26T21:09:03Z")
Another dead-tree fan. I recall the thud when I found out that Starbucks no longer carries the NY Times. I walked all over the Boston suburb my son lives in before I found it in a Walgreen’s. But for years I had counted on Starbucks. Oh well. At home I get it delivered. But the paper I got two days ago was missing the Sunday Review. First time that ever happened. But the online edition was okay. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/8 "2020-05-27T12:46:35Z")
In these uncertain times . . . ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/9 "2020-05-27T13:47:27Z")
I’d subscribed to the daily WaPo until we adopted the Firebug in 2009. All of a sudden, I had a lot less time to read the paper, so I switched to a Sunday-only subscription. And even the Sunday papers piled up way faster than I was reading them, so I didn’t renew my dead-trees subscription. That was eleven years ago. I kinda miss the dead-trees paper, and I certainly would have more time to read it now than I did when the Firebug was a toddler, but I’m so out of the habit, I’m not sure I’d even keep up with a Sunday subscription anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/10 "2020-05-27T21:21:06Z")
I subscribe to the local paper’s weekend edition (Friday & Saturday - Sunday was dropped a few years ago), after deciding I didn’t have time to read it every day. That gives me full access to the e-edition for the rest of the week. I also have e-subscriptions to the Washington Post and The Atlantic, after being frustrated once too often when following links in SDMB posts only to be told I had read the maximum allowed monthly free articles. Originally due to the fascinating spectacle of the ongoing Trump circus down south, but equally valuable these days for all the pandemic news. (It’s very interesting seeing the difference in the Canadian and US news about happenings in both countries for basically the same crisis.) ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/11 "2020-05-27T22:16:41Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Like I said, I just wished they had informed the rest of us first. They did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/12 "2020-06-01T23:18:09Z")
I didn’t get a paper today, and that didn’t surprise me because we had some riots last night, right around deadline, and the combination of that and their concern for the carriers’ safety led them to not publish an edition today. That, I understand. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466/13 "2020-06-03T05:16:55Z")
Update: I got both papers today, rolled up together no less. The riot story in the “Monday” paper was very brief, and at the end, it said, “This is a developing story.”