I get it and read it every day / 19% / 649 votes
I pick one up every once in a while / 21% / 713 votes
I have a legacy subscription that piles up / 24% / 796 votes
Nope. I get everything from the internet / 18% / 609 votes
Nope. I get my news from the internet and TV / 14% / 456 votes
Paper? How modern! Real news is carved in stone / 3% / 102 votes
Paper? How modern! Real news is carved in stone / 1% / 29 votes
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Like probably most of who read a paper almost daily, it is a local paper and all my national/international/specific subject news comes from the web.
Lets not forget radio
I get more of my news from Radio than I do from TV. I'm forced to sit in the car for over an hour each morning and evening.
I'd bet lots of people get way more news from Radio than TV.
Newspapers
We buy the Sunday paper to clip coupons and see
the sale ads. The rest goes largely unread.
Online Newspaper
I now started reading online newspaper and save some bucks from buying newspaper. Blog also taking a lot of my reading time.
Re: Online Newspaper
There are some great newspapers, but most are rags. Poor content, biased reporting and repeat journalism. Some publishers pitch the nostalgia line to justify their continued existence, but most are ripe for replacement.
Re: Online Newspaper
I agree completely. When I lived in Chicago I would pick up a paper every day that someone had discarded on the train just for something to read. It was usually crap. Now that I live in a city with complete shit public trans I barely even see a newspaper any more. The free weeklies are still palatable, though. But again, more for entertainment than NEWS.
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Let's be real. Let's try six dailies. I'd get more, but things such as the LA Times doesn't have same-day editions very far outside of LA. When you're looking at the NYTimes, Chicago Tribune, WSJ, Investor's Business Daily, etc. with wide distribution, then it's great.
Paper instead of electronic? Even though I've been doing the "IT thang" for twenty-five+ years, my mom taught me to read out of a newspaper when I was two: the preference remains. Newspapers are far more portable, have no power requirements, and I can see entire pages at a time (unless one uses the "subway fold" although I don't live anywhere near a subway), not scrolling through online articles.
And yes, I recycle. So whilst I may be a tree killer, I at least reduce the quantity of resources necessary to maintain my habit.
Free Dailys
Interestingly enough the modern age means I do read a paper newspaper every day. On my way into the train station every morning I am handed a small, free newspaper, in an easy-to-read-on-the-subway shape with all the basic news stories. It makes the commute go faster and is entirely paid for by advertisers. There are 2 right now in the NYC area competing for circulation numbers. If I had to pay I'd never do it.
News from newspapers?
There is only 1 daily in my town, and the majority of it is news service junk from Corporate in some other part of the country. The rest is either Lifestyle stuff that doesn't interest me, local reporting you really shouldn't trust (I couldn't recognize several incidents I was directly involved in after they were in print..do these people have to graduate high school?). Radio and TV news is too truncated to be very informative (minimal context), so between the Web and print news, I get enough information to actually be informed. Oh, I prefer my comics a strip at a time (I'm old fashioned that way) and for a laugh, there's the Op-Ed pages. You can get opinion on the Internet, but its more fun to be able to run into the people that write this stuff for a "What the hell were you thinking" moment.
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