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Poll: Do you read a paper and ink newspaper?

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Lifer
I used to subscribe to the S.F. Chronicle, but it's gotten too expensive lately. I miss it, but have to admit that it was terrible in a lot of ways. There are a few good columnists and features but mostly it sucked. But when it was really good I was glad I subscribed. There are a handful of good people there I know of, most of the decent reading was Associated Press, NY Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post feeds to the Chronicle.

Edit: Finally figured out how to set up the poll.
 
I will occasionally read one if I'm dining alone at a fast food place or hanging out in an airport. No point in buying one to read at home when I can read it online for free.
 
NYT, WSJ, and sometimes the LA Times. Assorted AP news from Yahoo online, and ABC and CNN for TV. Print is but one medium to use, and it shouldn't be the only one.
 
No - I never liked my hands getting dirty. I read online Google news which has just about every paper sampled though.
 
I don't have time in my life to sit down and read a paper cover-to-cover every/any day.

I cache feeds from the new york times, washington post, and wall street journal and read articles throughout the day at work, but it's one thing to have a text website open in one window while working on a server via terminal services in another as opposed to sitting at my desk with a giant newspaper spread out and covering my monitors.
 
Of course not, I have the interwebs. I hit up a few key websites several times throughout the day. The only exception is the subway by my work has a local paper and every few months I will spent 15 minutes reading it while eating lunch.
 
I get the Columbus Dispatch and typically read through a majority of it every morning. I also spend a good bit of the day at work reading news articles and watching the news wires for AP articles.
 
Newspapers are full of liberal half-truths and lies. Either that or they do not print what they dont want honest folks to be able to read. Sometimes an omission of the truth is worse than telling a lie. If the fairness doctrine was applied to newspaper most of them would be out of business. So I quit reading newspapers and just get news off the TV and Internet and the radio.
 
Originally posted by: piasabird
Newspapers are full of liberal half-truths and lies. Either that or they do not print what they dont want honest folks to be able to read. Sometimes an omission of the truth is worse than telling a lie. If the fairness doctrine was applied to newspaper most of them would be out of business. So I quit reading newspapers and just get news off the TV and Internet and the radio.
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What a strange world you must live in.
 
Originally posted by: piasabird
Newspapers are full of liberal half-truths and lies. Either that or they do not print what they dont want honest folks to be able to read. Sometimes an omission of the truth is worse than telling a lie. If the fairness doctrine was applied to newspaper most of them would be out of business. So I quit reading newspapers and just get news off the TV and Internet and the radio.
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Fox, FreeRepublic, and Limbaugh?
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Yes. Every morning.
Difficult and awkward to read the on-line versions while on the crapper. 😀
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w3rd crapper material is well it all the news fit to read and if you run out of paper... well you know...
 
I read the Hartford Courant (touted as the nation's oldest continually published daily) and feel great loyalty to it-a was a paperboy for them way back when. But it became part of the Tribune chain, and has gone enormously downhill, especially in the past year. They have laid off a big chunk (30%+) of their local reporters. They have also cut back their page count at least as much.

The Courant has gone from being a decent paper to something most useful for coupons and starting my wood stove. When my subscription ran out I didn't renew it until they offered me a year for $100-if my wife didn't get 3x that value in coupons out of it, it would be gone.

The other paper I subscribe to is a financial one, Investors Business Daily. Very good financial information, but it's editorial bias is pretty Neanderthal. Unfortunately their political bias spills over onto the news pages on a regular basis.
 
3 a day. Newsday, Daily News, and either the Post or the NYT depending on what day of the week it is.
 
I only subscribe to one now - the local paper (a NYT publication).

I dropped my other subscriptions to save money. But generally I'll read anything I can get my hands on.

Fern
 
I enjoy reading the paper. However, I had to discontinue my subscription in 2007 after losing my job. Local papers really are valuable, but in times like these they are not a necessity. I will resume my subscription sometime after I get re-employed after obtaining my masters later this year. It really is a good feeling to read the paper in the morning as part of your routine with a nice, big cup of coffee. Nothing beats it.
 
Originally posted by: Thump553
I read the Hartford Courant (touted as the nation's oldest continually published daily) and feel great loyalty to it-a was a paperboy for them way back when. But it became part of the Tribune chain, and has gone enormously downhill, especially in the past year. They have laid off a big chunk (30%+) of their local reporters. They have also cut back their page count at least as much.

The Courant has gone from being a decent paper to something most useful for coupons and starting my wood stove. When my subscription ran out I didn't renew it until they offered me a year for $100-if my wife didn't get 3x that value in coupons out of it, it would be gone.

The other paper I subscribe to is a financial one, Investors Business Daily. Very good financial information, but it's editorial bias is pretty Neanderthal. Unfortunately their political bias spills over onto the news pages on a regular basis.
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My SF Chronicle suffered similarly the last year. They laid off reporters and it's gotten a lot thinner. Some of their special features and posturing concerning remaking the paper and nostalgia trips (pretty narcissistic) are off-putting. Pricing has gone way up, and I just can't stay with them.

I was a subscriber to Investors Business Daily for a number of years, both the print edition and for the last 3+ years the online edition. My subscription ran out 2 1/2 months ago and I didn't renew. I totally agree with your assessment of their editorial policies. I think they would be so much better if they wouldn't indulge in such policies at all and just stick with helping people wisely invest their money. I guess they feel they have to address some news in general, including political stuff, and they can't resist revealing their biases. In any case, I still believe in the publisher's investment strategies and think he's pretty ingenious. I have some of his books and tapes.

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
I enjoy reading the paper. However, I had to discontinue my subscription in 2007 after losing my job. Local papers really are valuable, but in times like these they are not a necessity. I will resume my subscription sometime after I get re-employed after obtaining my masters later this year. It really is a good feeling to read the paper in the morning as part of your routine with a nice, big cup of coffee. Nothing beats it.
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Yup, I'm Jonesing. 🙁
 
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