As I was writing the check for another 6 months’ subscription to my local newspaper, I got wondering.
How many Dopers read the newspaper daily? Or at least, a few times week? Do you subscribe, or is obtaining it a part of your daily ritual.
We subscribe 7 days a week, and if we don’t get to read it, we save it and read a few days’ worth at once. Sometimes that’s a neat way to follow a local breaking story. We’re far enough from New York City that our local paper is a blend of A.P. stories, and truly local reportage that cannot be found through any other media outlet. ( Yes, there is a local cable news station not far from us. Their work is spotty at best, and I rely on the local paper for more in-depth coverage ).
We rarely watch the national evening news, we are simply so busy through those hours of late afternoon/early evening. We use this paper heavily. My kids peruse it as well, and that pleases me to no end. The value of sitting around and looking at a story and discussing it is to me, immeasurable.
I read two papers each day: The Richmont Times-Dispatch for local news and to keep my eye on what the lunatic fringe, John Birch Society, ultra-conservative, nut case right is doing, and the Washington Post for everything else. I also read the Christian Science Monitor if it is available.
I read the Globe and Mail (national) every day except Sunday, when they don’t publish. And I read the Toronto Star (local) on weekends - it’s mostly crap, but on weekends they have good National and International news as well as the local, and some good columnists. Plus colour comics :).
I am a newspaper addict. In England where they have four or five papers I find to be worth reading, I was thrilled. I spent entire days sitting in the living room surrounded by newsprint !
And I watch the news, 6:00 or 10:00 or both. Good thing I don’t get CBC Newsworld or I’d watch it all day !
I read the Tampa Tribune daily except for the weekends. It is obtained as part of my lunchtime ritual. I read the comics first, then the Business section, then the front page section, then the Metro section. Afterwards it gets put into the recycle bins at work when I get back in. On the weekends my news comes from the internet/cable news networks.
I read the New York Daily News and the New York Times every day. And the Village Voice and the NY Press on Wednesdays (Cecil’s column is back in the Press, I’m happy to say, although he really SHOULD be in the Voice). And the Onion on Thursday.
I subscribe to and read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution every day. It’s not a very good paper, but it’s the only one we have. When I’m traveling, I read whatever the local paper is in the town I’m in. I can’t imagine not reading a paper every day.
I rarely purchase the Knoxville News-Sentinel, and then only the Sunday paper so I can look at the ads if I have a purchase I’m planning.
I think it’s a horrid paper, and I finally got them to stop calling me and asking me to subscribe by telling them that I thought that.
I do occasionally pick up a Wall Street Journal, but I usually flip through a week’s worth at a time in the library. I generally read the NY Times online on a daily basis.
I skim the Houston Chronicle daily. I read the all of the ThisWeek section (the weekly community news) for my area every week. I read the city weekly less than once a month.
I quit subscribing to the local paper because most of it was unreadable crap. I discovered I wasn’t even opening half the sections. I’ll check out their website daily, along with a couple other news sites. I may or may not take the paper when we move to Maryland.
If there’s some big happening where the odds are good that the paper might have more depth than we could expect off local TV news, I’ll buy a paper at the corner market.
Every now and then I’ll check the local paper’s website.
Otherwise we get local news from the TV. National off TV and the web.
Our weekly paper, The Baltimore Sun, sucks. It sucks long and it sucks hard.
I haven’t read it in months.
I will pick up the weekly, alternative paper, City Paper every now and again if I can remember. It sucks too (waaaaaaaaay too liberal, but aren’t they --they being alternative papers-- all?) but at least they have a sense of humor about it.
Jesus, people still read the* Voice*? I thought it was just 47 sheaves of blank paper, with dirty ads in the back, now.
I get the NY Times every day and read the National, Metro, and Arts sections, and check the others to see if there’s anything interesting. My Mom gets the Phila. Inquirer every day, and when I visit her, I read that.
Online, I have the AP Newswire and 1010 WINS bookmarked, as well as (you’ll not be surprised) the L.A. Times and Daily Telegraph (UK) obituary sections.
The Sun is a daily, ya dope.
I subscribe to it, but may let the subscription drop, because as Juanita said, it’s not really worth it. And its comics page is what sucks the most.
I can read it on-line, and I watch the news on TV.
I pick up the City Paper if I remember, when I go in a Barnes & Noble, since it’s the only one that carries The Straight Dope, but that’s about all I read in it.
We also get a free local weekly, a county-wide paper geared to whichever part of the county you live in. It’s okay for local politics and goings-on like that, but there’s no hard news in it.
Rarely. I’ll glance at the front page to see if there is anything going on in the world that I might find interesting (which rarely happens) and then I go straight to the Everyday section where I get the important things in life. Recipes, movie reviews, comics, horoscope, Dear Abby, and crossword puzzle, and then I might grab the classifieds if there is something I’m looking to waste money on like a bulldog.
Very occasionally I’ll flip through sports if I missed the score of a ballgame or need stats for the football pool.
I occasionally read the morning paper, the Journal. Although it has a right wing slant it does sometimes contain actual news. The afternoon paper, the Tribune, has spent the last decade degenerating into “soundbite” news articles and chatty fluff from columnists who want to yammer about their boring personal lives.
The local alternative papers are rather shoddy in their journalism–one week you get a great article on the welfare system and then for the next six weeks it’s articles on where you can find breakfast for under five dollars. They also tend to have a strong lefty bias and a hipper-than-thou attitude. About the only good thing they have going for them is that they’re free and they fit my birdcages.
We read the New York Post, although that’s more for entertainment than actual news. We get actual news from the internet. I am also a huge NY1 junkie (that’s the local NY news TV channel, fyi).
My hometown’s local paper is the Buffalo News, which I still call the Buffalo Evening News although that name has been dead for at least 10 years, possibly longer. I read that online, although I usually don’t have time to read it daily, more like once a week.
We just returned from visiting my in-laws, who live in a smallish town in Oklahoma. Their local paper is hands down the most entertaining paper I’ve ever read. An article that ran while we were there (on page 2, even) included this tidbit: “I forgot to mention in my last column that the Baptist Summer Social will also include a turtle contest. Prizes will be given to the biggest turtle, the smallest turtle, and the fastest turtle. So don’t forget to bring your turtle.”
I used to read the Kansas City Star every day at lunch. It’s on the conservative side, but it’s rich with content compared to papers of similarly sized U.S. cities.
Since I got laid off, and I can’t find a job in the KC area, I haven’t been reading the Star as much. I feel like local news is somewhat irrelevant, if I’m only going to be leaving the area. More recently, I’ve been reading the New York Times.
The newspapers were terrible in southern New Mexico. The Las Cruces Sun~News (yes, it’s a tilde) has a lot of content for a small city newspaper, but there is little hard news and no investigative journalism; just a lot of “101 More Chile Recipes” type articles, profiles of local artists, and local business press releases. The El Paso Times was worthless, written for those with a sisth grade reading level. 11 and 12 point type, few three syllable words … awful.
