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.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D. Portland_ken
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 03:03 pm
I often pick up the paper
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.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: skifurthur AMSaddler
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 03:16 pm
I used to read three
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.
Christ almighty, the NYT is $470. Somehow I think your local rag isn't worth the price they want.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Def. High Surfdead
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 03:56 pm
We still subscribe to the
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.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Tim Wheres My Flashbacks
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 04:22 pm
It was a very good local
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.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: good at drinking water infinite ignorance
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 04:24 pm
ipad is like $300
ipad is like $300
https://www.amazon.com/ipad/s?k=ipad
$249 gets you a very nice little machine
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: 19.5 Degrees FaceOnMars
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 04:40 pm
Also use paper for starting
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?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Frank3 frank3
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 05:16 pm
go say hi to discodouche >
go say hi to discodouche >
http://forum.phish.net/forum/show/1378408763#page=1
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary Rasmataz
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 05:17 pm
Coffee and the morning paper,
Coffee talk and the morning paper, a lifelong ritual never to be interrupted.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D. Portland_ken
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 05:32 pm
>>>>where's Disco Stu?
>>>>where's Disco Stu?
That guy on the phish forum website sure sounds like Stu. Did he get banned or just up and quit?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Evan Evstar
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 05:35 pm
I love my newspaper too. The
I love my newspaper too. The quality of the content has diminished and the paper is physically smaller. It costs a $1.50 per day but is still a good source of education and entertainment. Best of all it is not on a glowing screen.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MarkD ntfdaway
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 07:42 pm
Most if not all newspapers
Most if not all newspapers are owned and controlled by the corporate elite. It's called propaganda and I have avoided them for yrs. Much like the nightly news. Telling you what corporate amerikkka wants you to hear. Break away.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Mike Dalton Dalton
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 08:08 pm
Get the Sunday Times. Enjoy
Get the Sunday Times. Enjoy having coffee and reading the paper on the weekend.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary Rasmataz
on Monday, August 19, 2019 – 08:30 pm
Hey MarkD -- Lighten Up
Hey MarkD -- Lighten Up Francis
Our paper was founded in the 1800's by one induvidual and is still owned by that same family, the Papes. They're big repubs but hell its easy to read thru repub fog smoke screens. Its got a great sports page, big Yanks n Sox coverage. And we get a kick out of the same right wing kooks that write the published letters to the editor, ya kind'a feel like you know em, like they're your wacky inlaws. Crossword's are mandatory fun. Garfield, Non Sequitur, puleeeeeze. And where else but the local paper can you catch up on todays obituaries and see who's funeral you have to attend now. Papers rule ! Be a sad day when they're gone
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Tim Wheres My Flashbacks
on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 – 08:40 am
stopped by 2 gas stations and
stopped by 2 gas stations and 2 convenient stores to pick up the Palm Beach Post. Its a bigger paper with less$ 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.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: nebulous nelly Orange County Lumber Truck
on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 – 08:47 am
My local paper provides
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
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Thumbkinetic (Bluestnote)
on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 – 08:31 pm
Started an E-subscription to
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.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Tim Wheres My Flashbacks
on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 – 08:14 am
I couldn't take it any longer
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
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Highnote Stringtwang
on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 – 08:53 pm
I stopped paper news years
I stopped paper news years ago. It's part of the single use mentality.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philnweird Philnweird
on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 – 09:19 pm
>>> USA/Gannett took it over
>>> 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.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: treat island judit
on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 – 09:42 pm
The Eugene Register-Guard was
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.