Should I subscribe to my local paper or a national one?

Which would you choose: the Ann Arbor News for $2.00 a week for a year, or the New York times for $2.90 a week for 8 weeks?

 

[FleshLight]

Damn that's expensive. Over here, we threaten to cancel our LA Times ($60ish year) because "it's too expensive"and they cut us a deal at $28 a year.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Which would you choose: the Ann Arbor news for $2.00 a week for a year, or the New York times for $2.90 a week for 8 weeks?

How much do you care about local news?

As I live in Central Texas, I couldn't care less so I'd be a NY Times guy...

 

[MaxDSP]

i get the Chicago Tribune 3 days a week (Wed, Fri, Sun) for $1 a week

 

[aplefka]

For me it's local, but then again I live in Sacramento. It's probably around there. We got SF Chronicle for a while and that was slightly more expensive but I didn't like it.

 

[PoPPeR]

luckily my local newspaper (contra costa times) is actually pretty damn good. I had a free subscription to the SF Chronicle and didn't like it too much. Or I just wasn't used to the different formats

 

[DaWhim]

New York Times will worth the money. you do pay for the quality of the paper.

right now, I have to subscribe WSJ for my class. that's $34ish after taxes for 15 weeks.

 

[aircooled]

I have given up on physical papers.

 

[dartworth]

neither

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
luckily my local newspaper (contra costa times) is actually pretty damn good. I had a free subscription to the SF Chronicle and didn't like it too much. Or I just wasn't used to the different formats

Yeah I didn't like it compared to our local paper either.

 

Originally posted by: aircooled
I have given up on physical papers.

Yeah, that's the thing...I don't know if I'd ever get around to reading it. I'm a news junkie, but I already subscribe to a couple weekly and monthly newsmagazines (The Week and The Atlantic, in addition to Forbes and Wired), and I don't know if I'd have time to read the paper too.