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Mine happens to be the NY Times, they stopped covering the news (even if it was a from a left angle) and began providing mostly pity-the-_____ stories, and I say that as someone who does not like Fox news.
My suburban paper is a bit better, but most stories are wire stories from the AP, Reuters, and AFP. The local news can be gotten from the website.
Ours was bought out by the Gannett. Daily issues got smaller, price got higher, reporters went totally 100% for Democratic Party candidates even if they were committing crimes. Heck, they're still trying to defend Obamacare and our local senator who voted for it.
It's too funny you post this today. I just cancelled the Reno Gazette Journal as of tomorrow. No political reason, but we just didn't read it. My wife said she wants the coupons, but gets mailers from most places we shop. So every two weeks I'd put it out on garbage day. And to think I got my first paper route at 10 years old. The internet has really changed things. I just read my first book on a Nook, and then paid $22 for Alan Greenspan's latest at Costco? I'd rather hold a book than the nook, but money may change my mind.
We have two desktops, a Netbook, I-pad, smartphones, and a Nook. I guess we just get enough saturation to no longer need a paper.
About five or six years ago, when they went to three days per week.
The local paper is extremely poorly-written and not worth a buck per issue. I still like the physical paper and will pick up the Sunday NYT when I can.
Mine happens to be the NY Times, they stopped covering the news (even if it was a from a left angle) and began providing mostly pity-the-_____ stories, and I say that as someone who does not like Fox news.
My suburban paper is a bit better, but most stories are wire stories from the AP, Reuters, and AFP. The local news can be gotten from the website.
I get the NY Times mainly for their international news, and also the science news. I can't think of a paper that has better internat'l coverage.
The last newspaper we took was the Baltimore Sun. I canceled it the week they stopped taking gun ads in their classifieds telling them they were a bit "too local" for my interests. That was in the 1990s. I haven't had a newspaper subscription since the 1990s and haven't missed the mess they created around the house.
Newspapers are an artifact of a time in America when people were forgiving of news being delivered a day late and a dollar short.
Why subscribe to the newspaper? I got a laptop, cellphone and I want a tablet. I cant get all the news I want from these. My local newspaper just doesn't cover interesting things.
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