Do you read a printed morning newspaper?

[Zomby Woof]

I have been a confirmed news junkie (as many of you are, no doubt) since I was a child during the Watergate era. My parents dutifully read the morning (and back then, sometimes evening) newspaper every day. My dad liked to share an interesting story by reading it out loud, which is a practice I have inherited. I have no doubt my newspaper habit kept my reading and writing skills sharpened in the classroom. Along with the encyclopedia set and our National Geographic subscription, it kept me aware of a wider world out there. All that, and baseball box scores, crosswords, and comics.

Now, being a news junkie does mean I keep up on the internet like most people. I like getting the most up-to-date information, and we all peruse LBN for that purpose. But even as printed newspapers are shrinking in size, increasing in price, and subscriptions are dwindling by the hundreds each day, I keep the faith. It's not just because it's a habit, either. I like to have the pages spread before me, allowing me to scan headlines at my leisure. I still like to cut out articles and comics which resonate with me or my family and friends. I still save historic headline editions, which have been plentiful since August. They are also valuable primary source material. Our family has the newspapers my great-grandfather saved when historic events occurred - like President McKinley's assassination, or the signing of the armistice ending the first world war. Sometimes the buried articles are more revealing of the time and place than the headlines.

So, which newspaper or newspapers do you still read hard copies of each day? Unlike whatshername up in Wasilla, I expect you will give me a definitive reply. ;-)

I start my morning with the Los Angeles Times.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Yes! You learn about a wider variety of things that way. No substitue for dead trees. nt

[Zomby Woof]

4. And if they are a dying medium

I will keep reading them until the last one rolls off the presses.

[WI_DEM]

2. Yes, I spend enough time in front of a computer. I like reading a paper newspaper

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. I read the Wall Street Journal.

The opinion pages fill me with enough bile to carry my rage through the day.

[azmouse]

5. Arizona Republic

I like having the old newspaper to use as a drop cloth when I'm painting... and it's good for wrapping fish.

[Zomby Woof]

9. I wouldn't abuse dead fish that way

:evilgrin:

When I lived in northern AZ, I read both the Arizona Republic (to get international stories) and Flagstaff's Arizona Daily Sun.

As for the Republic, I would use it to line the cat's litterbox if need be.

[tekisui]

6. I read our local newspaper for local stories.

The Asheville Citizen-Times. It is very light in National/International stories.

[Warpy]

7. I get our newspaper once a week, on Saturday

and only for the (incomplete) TV listings. It's cheaper than TV Guide.

The newspaper here is conservative swill, utter right wing codswallop, even a parrot would rebel at using it for a latrine in the bottom of its cage.

I miss the Boston Globe.

[Zomby Woof]

11. Sounds like our local newspaper

I was called out by my DU name once by one of its columnists, because I mocked its name, Mad Magazine style. :D

He obviously surfs DU, lol.

[Buzz Clik]

8. I read our local rag daily. Time and Newsweek.

USA Today when I'm on the road.

Everything else (printed news) is catch as catch can.

[supernova]

10. Nada. Zilch. Zip.

I let go of papers 12 years ago.

I get all of my news online in the morning and throughout the day. I even can do crosswords online. I do pick up my local independent weekly, but it's free and I usually leave it behind at the place where I have lunch for someone else to read (it's allowed there.)

It's not because I don't enjoy them, but because I wanted to lessen housework. When you buy a paper, you have have someplace to dispose of it afterward. It's one less thing I have to take to the recycling station.

I feel sorry for newspapers, what they are going through and of course for all the jobs that are on shaky ground. But I think we will all have to move online eventually, and stop printing hard copies, except for certain instances.

edit: spelling :silly:

[Zomby Woof]

13. You killjoy

:evilgrin:

Good morning Supernova! :hi:

[BlooInBloo]

12. Haven't for years. Occassionally I'll do the Sunday morning coffee shop NYT thing...

But that's getting rarer, and that's about all.

Unless I'm in a barber shop or something like that.

[Fireweed247]

14. I read my local printed morning newspaper....online....

It is really cool actually, because so many people comment now it is a great community discussion about national and local issues. It keeps the writers on their toes too and gives them additional stories to write. We do read stories out loud and discuss them. I think that is a great tradition:fistbump: educating the children is our only hope!

[Zomby Woof]

17. It was the Virginian Pilot in the morning

Or the Ledger Star in the evening, back then during Watergate.

Plus, Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News. When Uncle Walter spoke, all was quiet at the dinner table. :o

[Betsy Ross]

15. We get the Sunday SF Chronicle on Saturday.

I try to read our two local city rags when they come out, once a week. Other than that, I rely on DUers for most of my news reading material.

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. I get the Guardian every morning.

A walk down to the newsagent's after my first cup of coffee has become part of my morning ritual since I've been in the UK.

[Brazenly Liberal]

18. sigh! I wish I still could!

When we lived in the city, I read three or four print newspapers every day. That was, of course, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and there wasn't yet any online news. Now that we live out in the country, I'd have to drive to town to get a same-day paper other than the local (read: newsless) rag. Subscribing to print papers would get them to my house a day late.

So we read news online via RSS feeds. It's very efficient, very informative and not at all satisfying. I greatly miss sitting in the sun, drinking a big heavy mug of coffee, and lazily turning the pages of the morning newspaper.

[Iggo]

19. I haven't bought a newspaper in years.

[frazzled]

20. Two print papers per day (NY Times, Chicago Tribune)

It's a breakfast and coffee thang in our house ... we read or announce interesting articles to each other as we sip and grunt and try to wake up.

We've moved quite a few times, so we always subscribe to a local paper but can't give up the NY Times, both for internat'l and nat'l reporting, and for the arts section. Can't say we read every inch of every paper (more of NYT than local paper), but we get the main article headings.

You forgot to mention crossword puzzle.

[underseasurveyor]

21. The nice people I live with get a few papers delivered

The LA Times, The Press Telegram (Long Beach), The Grunion Gazette (Long Beach), Variety and The Hollywood Reporter (they're in the movie business :-) ). And then when I'm at my BF house I read The OC Register, Time and Newsweek and then when I'm at my sister's house (she lives here in Long Beach) on the weekends they get the Sunday New York Times.

Throw in a variety of scuba diving, island and marine eco type magazines.... I read a lot :-)

Then there's DU:hi:

[LisaM]

22. Yes, we get the Seattle P-I

and usually read the headlines and sports recap before work. Later, I'll do the puzzle and read the reviews, etc., my SO does the bridge and Sudoku (sp), and he'll read it pretty much cover to cover.

[qb]

23. I used to read the Minneapolis Star Tribune but since they hired a RW ideologue

as their political editor it has turned to crap. It's not worth my time or money.

[WoodrowFan]

24. yes

yes, can't live without my paper in the am. Alas, it's only Fred Hiatt's Washington Post, but since the alternative is the Moonie Times.... x(


I do miss having an am paper AND an evening paper like I did growing up. (Dayton Daily News and Journal Herald)

[Cid_B]

25. Stars and Stripes...

but only when i remember to pick one up as there is no delivery service for me.

[Zomby Woof]

31. My first job

I delivered The Stars and Stripes back in 1978 when I was 10, turning 11 years old. We lived some 10 miles away from the Naval Base in Rota, Spain, in a community called Vista Hermosa. For the Americans scattered throughout the area, I rode my 3-speed bike over 4 miles, delivering roughly 40 papers every Monday through Friday. Back then, no Saturday edition was provided, and people had to go to the Stars and Stripes bookstore on the base to get their Sunday edition. The headlines were delayed by 3 days, so any news we had picked up on Armed Forces Radio (as it was called back then) could not be read about in further detail until we got our copy of the newspaper.

No TV then either - American TV's shorted out even with the use of transformers. There was no Armed Forces TV available there anyway. Spain had a single state channel back then, and it wouldn't have done us much good.

So the Stars and Stripes was an important lifeline to us.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

26. yes ....the NYT's and for local news The Albany Times Union every morning

[BurtWorm]

27. I used to read the NY Times every day of the year.

Until about two years ago. I don't even remember noticing when it stopped being a habit. I'm completely out of it now. Don't even buy the Sunday Times, unless I'm out of the city. I read it all online now. I used to read AM New York, the free commuter paper every day (that might have coaxed me out of the $1.50 a day Times habit), but I even stopped reading that. I read books on the subway now instead. I feel sort of sad sometimes about the passing of my habit, sad about what it means for the future of newspapers if even I don't read my local one. But I don't feel sad enough to start up the habit again.

[hfojvt]

28. I just subscribed to two this year

but I am starting to wonder why. One reason was so I could keep up with the news and update my website, but it is hard to keep up and stay motivated for volunteer work like that. Also, although I am getting the Lawrence Journal-World and Lawrence is the most liberal city in Kansas, it does not seem to be a very liberal paper. It includes columns by Cal Thomas and George Will. Then it also includes articles pushing Republicans talking points like they are fact. These are news articles, not editorials. A recent paper had an article saying that the stimulus bill included spending that had nothing to do with economic stimulus - a major Republican talking point. It also included an article saying that the recent bonuses going to Wall Street were not all bad.

Then there's the Leavenworth Times. A paper which ignores our Democratic Governor. On the day she gave the State of the State address, their front page featured a speech by her likely opponent for the US Senate in 2010, Republican Congressman Jerry Moran, who is not even from our district. Kansas is facing a billion dollar budget deficit and talking about slashing spending, but you'd never know that by reading the Times.

A recent weekend edition really took the cake for me. The front page, and 1/3 of page three featured an article about the local Republicans new website. No mention of the fact that local Democrats have had a website for over two years, even though we have spent thousands on ads in their paper and I usually include the website in the ad, and our website is the first result if you google for Democrats in this county. I went down personally to complain to the editor. How do we get free publicity like this? I forgot to remind them that 40% of the voters in this county are Democrats, or will vote for a Democrat based on the last few elections.

[JitterbugPerfume]

29. you would not believe how useless

my local newspaper is . I use to subscribe to the FortWayne Journal . I have been seriously thinking about re-subscribing


When I lived in the central part of the state I read the Indianapolis Star ,but that habit also went by the wayside


I love reading a newspaper Thanks for the reminder ZW:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

32. Heya Jitterbug!

:hi: How about some coffee? :donut:

[JitterbugPerfume]

37. coffee with the morning paper!

now that 's living!:loveya:

[KurtNYC]

30. I use newspapers to pack items for shipping

Much cheaper than bubble wrap. Environmentally better than styrofoam peanuts.

Other than that, the newspaper simply prints stuff that was on the internet yesterday and 40 pages of ads for car dealerships.

[zipplewrath]

33. Yes

I read the local rag daily. When I am on the move, I'll often buy a NYT or a Washington Post for the flight. Occasionally when on the west coast I'll read the LA Times. Some hotels will leave me either the WSJ or USlessToday. Otherwise I'm reading NYT bits and pieces off of the web, or going to specific websites like Rawstory for some stories.

As an aside, my local rag is owned by the whole Tribune bunch that's hit rough times. It's gone into the toilet. They've shrunk it and replaced it with more columnists and fewer stories (and lots-o-ads). Really, when all is said and done I'd prefer they just put out a local section, and then include say the national section of the NYT, some sort of daily national sports section (they could wrap a local sports page around it if they wished) and some sort of business section by the WSJ or something.

[Blue_Tires]

34. read the local Virginian-Pilot

and try to buy a WaPo most days...

[BOSSHOG]

35. Two every day

New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Gulfport, MS Sun-Herald. I also pick up a New Orleans weekly paper and I get the Navy Times when I'm on base. I also get the small town local rag on Sundays. And I get the NYT on the web. Love curling up with the Sunday Papers.

[tinymontgomery]

36. Charlotte Observer

Read it before going to work, then hit DU for more political news.

[Zomby Woof]

42. Tell Tiny Montgomery I said Hello

A DU name I haven't seen lately. :toast:

[tinymontgomery]

47. I don't post alot

haven't even reached 1000 in 6 years of being here.

[havocmom]

38. Read the LA Times to my daughter when she was a tot

Sorta far from daily print in present, undisclosed bunker ;) I DO miss a daily paper!

[vanderBeth]

39. Nope, and I never did like reading newspapers

Don't know why. Besides, my newspaper-The Dallas Morning News-is absolute garbage.

But now in the computer age, I do like The Guardian online and do read the website daily now.

[aikoaiko]

40. I enjoy reading the Savannah Morning News during the morning.

But it got a little pricey so I dropped it.

[dembotoz]

41. milwaukee urinal

been reading the local paper since i could read.
At school i had it delivered to my dorm

Thinking of giving it up--paper has gotten much more conservative over the past few years
as they cater to the more wealthy conservative sections of metro milwaukee.
but old habits die hard.

[quiller4]

43. Yes. I read The News Tribune every morning.

I read other newspapers regularly online but I won't give up the dead tree version of my local paper unless it ceases publication.

[mnhtnbb]

44. We read the Raleigh News & Observer daily and the NY Times on Sunday.

Used to get both papers daily, but couldn't keep up.

I've tried to get hubby to give up the Raleigh paper and switch to NY Times daily, but he loves
the local sports pages.

[Lucinda]

45. Nope. But I have online ids for several papers - LAT, NYT etc.

I'm paperless as much as possible. I save articles and cartoons etc, but they are digital now.

[Blue_In_AK]

46. Yes, the incredible, shrinking Anchorage Daily News. n/t

[trof]

48. Nope. Twice weekly local afternoon rag.

And by 'local', I mean ABSOLUTELY local 'news'.
City council meetings, chamber of commerce doings, new business openings (not many of those now), school and Boy/Girl Scout news.

But every morning I read Google News, Christian Science Monitor, Mobile Register, BuzzFlash, and LBN here on DU.
All online.

[Mamacrat]

49. Can't stand the newsprint.

Our paper has been using a cheap paper or ink now for several years that really aggravates my allergies. I'm fine with something like the New York Times, which I no longer have the time to read, so I read online a few articles. I just can't stand our local paper when it's fresh, so my husband now just buys it at work and will sometimes bring it home. I would say that a change in the allergen would make us take the paper at home again, but we live in a condo, and the delivery person throws them to hit the doors so hard it wakes us around 4:00! So, those days are just over.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

50. I read them all.

Ya, ya betcha. Wink* :hide:


Okay honestly - The day the only liberal editorial writer, Jim Goldsbourough was fired from the local fishwrap - (San Diego Union-Tribune) My husband and I raced to the phone to see who could cancel the paper first. My husband got there first and when he canceled, after having the paper delivered for over 20 years, they asked why he cancelled - He told them that they were nothing more than a mouthpiece for the GOP and for the failed presidency of Bush. They told him that they had been inundated by subscribers canceling due to Goldsbourough's firing -

I read articles on line from several papers but we do not have a paper delivered any longer. We are considering getting the NY Times delivered on Sunday though. :)

We tried the LA Times San Diego County edition - we liked it but then they discontinued it... The only other MAJOR paper in S. Ca is the OC Register and they are just as horrible as the SDUT.

We are in a sea of redpaper when most of us are blue. :shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

55. The Union-Tribune is absolute shit

For the exact reasons you stated. The way they scapegot the unions for bankrupting the city is beyond ballsy. The Republicans loot the treasury for contractors and business cronies, then when the union tries to hold on to its pension fund - waaah! Those mean unions are greedy and making the city broke! The GOP has no better friend than the AntiUnion-Tribunal.

When my grandfather in San Diego was alive, he would use slugs he made in his garage (he was a retired mechanic by trade, and had the equipment to build engines from scrap metal) to get a copy from the vending machine at the bottom of the hill. He hated Republicans, and thought the paper was a joke, but it was all you could get back then, and he too, liked to read the paper.

He used to annoy his ultra-conservative neighbor from across the street by keeping a picture of Jimmy Carter hanging in his garage. The neighbor would come over to chat while my grandfather was working in there, and see that pic. It was revenge for the Ronald Reagan picture his neighbor kept in his dining room. :eyes: :rofl: He did admire Carter though, especially after seeing the way Reagan "ran the country into the ground" with debt and greed
after 8 years.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

62. Carter was the

most honest president this country has ever had.

My home is paperless.... sad huh? But I guess I am saving some trees. :eyes:

Why would anyone have a picture of a B-actor hanging in their dining room.... Jeesh. I get pretty pissed off when I hear that crap about Reagan being such a wonderful guy and a great president - He is what motivated me into being politically active. What a fuck-up he was - But he was a genius compared to what we have had for the last 8 years. I wish Obama would quit with the "Reagan was a great man" shit... it really gets on my nerves.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

51. Um, all of them, any of them

that have been in front of me over all these years.

You Betcha! Wink, wink! :evilgrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv_TozVnpE4

[hunter]

52. I read our local morning paper.

It's shrinking.

I suppose most people watch the local news on television, but I can't tolerate it.

[Zomby Woof]

53. I loathe the local news

It's the SAME no matter where you live. "Coming up next! There was an explosion at the Taco Bell today!" The teaser goes on for 20 minutes, only to learn once they run the story that it was because someone ate too many bean burritos.

Well, that is what local news coverage seems like to me. :D Very sensationalistic, in love with things blowing up, etc.

[L0oniX]

54. What's a newspaper???

[backscatter712]

56. People still store data using pigments on bleached wood pulp? How quaint.

I read lots of newspaper articles, but my reading tends to be through my laptop and over the net these days.

[MorningGlow]

57. I read the local rag every day

Even as they systematically destroy themselves in the name of "becoming more economical". The news is sketchier, the "reporters" merely underpaid scribes (that is, when they're actually doing anything besides compiling wire reports), and the editors must be stretched really thin, because the print errors are becoming more and more impressive.

They've chopped the size (including reduced the editorial pages by half), shuffled sections around, and are including fewer stories written locally. In-depth stories are nearly nonexistent, although they do expend a lot of ink writing puff pieces about the two wealthiest suburbs. Gee, I wonder why. :eyes:

They push people to their Web site constantly--it's apparent they've resigned themselves to the fact that in the future news will only be on a computer screen, and they have given up on the hard copy entirely--just going through the motions--but their Web site (and satellite personalized interest sites) and the features they offer ain't that great.

They don't realize some people really, REALLY want a newspaper they can hold in their hands and read at their leisure, not to mention saving headlines, as you said. I've saved several from the election and inauguration, and they'll be kept with the front pages my mother kept about WWII and Kennedy. (Printing the story off the Web site just isn't the same, somehow.)

Besides, if we don't have a newspaper, how are we gonna get the kindling to catch in the woodstove? :evilgrin:

[JerseygirlCT]

58. Well, I'm not sure it still qualifies as a newspaper... but the Hartford Courant. nt

[sister taoist]

59. Yes...it is a comforting ritual with which a hard screen can never compete

Chicago Sun-Times.

[SidDithers]

60. Only on the weekends...

Toronto Star Saturday and Sunday editions. Weekdays, I get my of my news off the tubes. On the weekends, however, there's not much better than reading the paper in front of the fire, coffee and Bailey's in hand :)

Sid

[SergeyDovlatov]

61. Occasionally on vacations, when they bring them into the room. Otherwise, internets