Reading the local paper- do you?

I get the Philadelphia Inquirer; I at least flip through it every day, depending on how much time I have. We also get a really shitty free local paper that I’m dying to proofread for, since it needs it desperately, but they ignore my letters.

The local local paper is a weekly, with no really useful information, so I ignore it. The slightly less local paper I skim. I buy the Detroit Free Press every so often, but weekly during hockey season so I can read “The Puck.” And I just started getting the New York Times headlines in my e-mail, and I’m really enjoying it.

It is physically impossible for me to eat breakfast without having the morning paper in front of me.

I only scan the front page, metro and weather (what?? 104 degrees tomorrow?).

At work, I go to the website at least twice a day to read the news in depth. My dream is to have enough time to read the entire Sunday paper, and clip all those coupons.

In Dallas, we had TWO rival newspapers for many years until - what, 7 years ago? I forget. It still startles me when I look through my mom’s scrapbooks and see the Times Herald. We’ve preserved both papers from a horrible day in Septempter 1963.

I’m a news junkie. When I lived with my parents, I read the Houston Chronicle every day. Before that, I read the Houston Post.

When I moved to Austin for college, I never got into the Austin American-Statesman. I think I’ve read it twice, always when it was lying around somewhere. I read the New York Times for a while because it was required for classes, and I liked it well enough that I still read it online.

I get the paper just for the New York Times Crossword.

I get most of my new off the Internet- and by listening to the radio on my way to/from work

I don’t pay for mine. Every once in a while I’ll get one and flip through it, but I usually only have 'em brought over if Gunslinger’s been to work that day, since he gets as many as he wants for free right off the presses, and/or if a picture he took made the front page and he wants to show me.

I work for the paper, but only look at it to make sure my photos got printed correctly, and occasionally to read the story that goes with my photo. And I read the comics, if I have a spare few minutes.

Newspapers have too many words. They should use more pictures. :stuck_out_tongue:

I actually prefer the local paper over the big guys. The local paper has all those stereotypical corny local odities and off-beat newstories that makes it more interesting to read.

We get three (well, two local). One is the real local paper, which has the local school and political news. My wife freelanced for them for a while. The second is the San Jose Murky News, which is a good paper, and has good local business news. It also has the only daily traffic column I know of. The third is the NY Times, since I’d never live anywhere without the Times. There are also two weeklies I pick up, both with Cecil.

I hardly ever watch TV news.

My family hasn’t gotten any newspaper for several years. The only magazine we have had coming in regularly is my subscription to Rolling Stone.

Well, I WATCH the local news everyday, does that count? Of course, I also WORK at the local news station, so it’s not really a voluntary thing, mind you…

Five years ago I read the NYTimes and the local paper (San Jose Mercury News) daily. For the last Five years at least I’ve barely looked at a paper, with the Internet. Especially with Google news the last couple years I don’t see any reason to ever pick up a paper; it’s guaranteed to be at least 12-24 hours out of date.
We still get the steaming turd of a paper, the local Mercury; my wife likes it for some reason. She’s so twentieth century.

What is Yoda doing posting a question to the boards?

I read the Lansing State Journal, or as it is locally known the Lansing Stale Urinal. But hey you got to get your local news somewhere.