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The recent thread had me thinking about this, also because I was recently around cable TV and saw that even cable nwes has drastically deteriorated.
If you read an actual physical newspaper, what do you read? Does your town have a good newspaper? Do you read your local paper but have a poor opinion of it? Are you obliged to resort to an out-of-town paper?
I feel very lucky, in New York, to not only have the New York Times, but others, ranging from the junkier tabloids like the New York Post, to the cultural, gossipy New York Observer. Also, NYC has not only serious recycling but also a tradition of often leaving one's newspaper behind on a bus or at an appointment, so that people can often scrounge one for free.
I live in Pittsburgh, and receive the Post-Gazette daily and Sunday. We used to get the NYTimes Sunday, but the carrier for it retired or quit for some reason, and it wasn't available for a long time. We just drifted away from it. I've been thinking of getting it on my iPad tho.
I pretty much rely on the net now----it is sad that the era of the big daily papers is winding down.
Before the advent of the net, it was nice to have the paper waiting for you to unwind----pop open or soda or something stronger, and catch up with the world.
I've always subscribed to the daily newspapers where ever we have lived. Right now it's the AJC in Atlanta. It's not much different from the papers in NJ or FL, just different local news. I still read the papers from other areas we lived every day, online. I especially like the smaller local weeklies.
I spent essentially all of my twenties reporting for, writing for, and editing a community newspaper, so I tend to be a fan of local media. I read both online and in paper format. I have a deep appreciation for community weeklies, because they fill a niche not filled by larger papers.
If you read an actual physical newspaper, what do you read? Does your town have a good newspaper? Do you read your local paper but have a poor opinion of it?
We have a local newspaper here but don't read or subscribe to it. Personally, I don't really want to read a paper to find out about who won the spelling bee contest in X city. However, we have neighbors who receive subscriptions to the local paper and they enjoy that. We get the L.A. Times. Many people think LAT is too liberal and prefer a more conservative newspaper.
I read 2 news papers every day 1 is "the reporter " from a town down the road from me and the other is " China Daily ", both very informative and between the two I can get a pretty good feel of whats going on
Writing for and being the editor of community papers was super interesting...you have the "local newspapers suck" camp who think it's stupid that every fart-blowing contest warrants a community news mention...until THEIR fart-blowing contest doesn't get mentioned, and then it's not stupid, it's a personal affront. You have people who take it suuuuuper seriously and want you to be much more muckraking then is the intent of your publication, or who think that small publications in small communities have an obligation to take a political stance one way or another, rather than just reporting. You have people who are involved in issues warranting hard news coverage who underestimate your ability to report hard news, and get caught offguard when you do. You get people who think what you do is fluff, until you start winning state press association awards for your size/division.
The coolest thing about working for small community publications, especially ones with a longstanding history (the one I worked for was 150 years old) is that it provides a cool historical document of a community, in the kind of minutiae that one wouldn't otherwise have. Each week was a relatively complete snapshot in the life of a town...not just as regurgitation of wire stories about other places that can easily be gotten elsewhere.
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