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After reading my local newspaper for 49 years my subscription ran out.

They want $600.60 for a year to throw the paper in mmy yard everyday.

I know go digital but I only have a phone (too small) and my in home computer(bulky as fuck and not in the room I wake up in)

I love my crossword, Sudoku, I write phone messages on it and spill coffee and draw pictures on the cover. I'm wasting trees but I am a fuckin dinosaur.

Do any of you still read print or am I a loner.

I often pick up the paper version of the Willamette Week, but it only comes out once a week.   We use the print paper for stating fires in the fireplace or shred it up to give the worm bin some dry edible material.

I used to read three newspapers a day but I became more and more disenchanted with the lack of news in tow of them and canceled those subscriptions. I am still a daily reader of the New York Times. I'm guessing the only things that will stop me from that habit are death or blindness. 

 

They want $600.60 for a year to throw the paper in mmy yard everyday.

Christ almighty, the NYT is $470. Somehow I think your local rag isn't worth the price they want. 

We still subscribe to the local paper but don't know how long that will last as they keep jacking up the price - now about the same as the NYT.

It was a very good local paper with local news, obits, public records, restaurant reviews, arrest reports and great local high school sports.

USA/Gannett took it over and shit slowly over 3 years declined and are completely missing.

Friday night high school football scores on Monday. Any national sports game starting after 7pm is listed as late and 85% of paper is ads.

I don't know what to do for my hour wake up routine in the mornings anymore. Wife better get used to some early morning loving I guess, but she will not be to stoked if I spill coffee on her while humping.

ipad is like $300

https://www.amazon.com/ipad/s?k=ipad

$249 gets you a very nice little machine

Also use paper for starting fires, so mostly only pick them up off the rack in the winter.

Speaking of fires, where's Disco Stu?

Coffee talk and the morning paper, a lifelong ritual never to be interrupted.

>>>>where's Disco Stu?

That guy on the phish forum website sure sounds like Stu.   Did he get banned or just up and quit?

I love my newspaper too. The quality of the content has diminished and the paper is physically smaller. It costs a $1.50 per day but is still a good source of education and entertainment. Best of all it is not on a glowing screen.

 

Most if not all newspapers are owned and controlled by the  corporate elite. It's called propaganda and I have avoided them for yrs.  Much like the nightly news. Telling you what corporate amerikkka wants you to hear. Break away.

Get the Sunday Times.  Enjoy having coffee and reading the paper on the weekend. 

Hey MarkD -- Lighten Up Francis

Our paper was founded in the 1800's by one induvidual and is still owned by that same family, the Papes. They're big repubs but hell its easy to read thru repub fog smoke screens. Its got a great sports page, big Yanks n Sox coverage. And we get a kick out of the same right wing kooks that write the published letters to the editor, ya kind'a feel like you know em, like they're your wacky inlaws. Crossword's are mandatory fun. Garfield, Non Sequitur, puleeeeeze.  And where else but the local paper can you catch up on todays obituaries and see who's funeral you have to attend now.   Papers rule ! Be a sad day when they're gone 

stopped by 2 gas stations and 2 convenient stores to pick up the Palm Beach Post. Its a bigger paper with less$ to deliver to get as feel for it and no one even carries papers anymore.

Im getting old.......should just send me out to pasture to live out my days.

 

My local paper provides little local news,  it pulls stories from the newswires. I can find that stuff on my own. Plus, my wife is allergic to the ink.

 

I once read a story on the Epoch Times website,  the next day a copy of the paper was in my driveway 

Started an E-subscription to our "local" paper (part of the USA Today conglom).  A month later they laid off their DC bureau, who happens to be an old friend.  Hoping he writes a book about his time covering Trenton/DC.  Side note: His picture is also taped to one of the keyboard rigs of The Lumineers (As a mutual friend said when I sent him a link to the story, "It's a strange and random universe.").

But I didn't cancel my subscription until the THIRD time some headline editor misspelled the word "inning."

Unforced errors.

I couldn't take it any longer

Signed up for 3 month trial of the Palm Beach Post.....I caught myself drooling this am as I was reading the sports section.

I signed the $3 3 month e subscription for my ex local rag.

There are a few things I will catch up on locally

I stopped paper news years ago. It's part of the single use mentality. 

>>> USA/Gannett took it over and shit slowly over 3 years declined and are completely missing.

The main procedure these days is: company buys paper > guts the staff (page designers/some reporters/pressmen) > production gets moved to a hub. Local ad reps survive the hammer but many don't. Then, often times the paper is being designed by people hundreds of miles away with pages sent via PDF to universal press sites. The glut of papers at a particular place means deadlines have to move up to allow the designing to flow. I've heard of a lot of big city papers that have press deadlines in the mid-afternoon for sporting events. 

Now you're starting to see papers go to mail delivery, which means carriers are no longer needed, and Sunday papers are becoming a thing of the past. 

The Eugene Register-Guard was owned by a local family until a year or two ago. The conglomerate that bought it is careless about spelling, layout, grammar, the stuff that makes it possible to read what's left of the paper (see Philnweird's description). The editorial staff's opinions are usually left of center, the news is skimpy, but it's the only tolerable daily source of local news and events. 2 of the 3 'local' channels on TV are owned by Sinclair, the third is owned by a local family and has lost it's excellence. It's a good thing that Viva is here for some of the news I'm interested in; I'm also watching a lot of Netflix and other streaming movies these days, trying to stay away from sad stuff.