Newspapers
August 12th, 2008Do you read the newspaper? Does anyone read the newspaper anymore? I know at least one person does becase my neighbor’s paper is usually on my porch in the morning. I know newspapers are having trouble with getting subscriptions, so I assume their ad revenue (on the print side, at least) is probably down. They also make a lot of money on classifides, and Craigslist has probably hurt that.
When you can get all of your news (and differing viewpoints) in real time on the intergoogle…who wants to wait to read yesterday’s news stories?
So here is my question…do you read a newspaper? Why or why not?
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August 13th, 2008 at 12:47 am
An actual physical newspaper? No. I do read the local paper online occasionally, and subscribe to book reviews from a bunch of newspapers on Bloglines.
I’ve never liked the way newspapers feel. It’s like a tactile version of fingernails on a chalkboard to me. This is just a personality quirk for me, but it’s the main reason I don’t read the newspaper. I rely more on cable news and the Internet for my news than I do newspapers.
I think in the 24 hour newscycle that we now have, newspapers are outdated by the time they come off the printer. Which is sad, really, because newspapers are such an iconic part of American history.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:44 am
no – I do not read the newspaper. Why would I pay to get my news late! The one down side though to not getting a paper is that there are a lot of coupons in there… I’m not sure if the coupons equal the cost of the paper though. If so, then maybe it would be a worth while purchase.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Yes, I read the hard copy news paper as well as gettin news on-line. The reason why is I can easily open the paper wide and puruse the stories quickly and sort out the ones I want to read. I can scan the story in a few seconds. With an on-line news source I can’t scan the whole double page so I have to press a link and look just at that story, and so on and so on. Reading the hard copy paper is actually faster.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
yes, i am one of the few who still read newspapers. I know the news headlines are a day late (i read the internet too)but i like the smaller and/or local stories. I mostly like the fact that i can see the whole paper and find things that i wouldn’t even know to look for online. The store ads and coupons are an added bonus.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Ummm… pay $1 a day to have a stack of papers collect on my coffee table when I can read it online? No thanks.
The only sucky thing about it is that my stupid local newspapers have terrible websites. Even so, I would peruse them, but now the one I’m accustomed to has started charging, I think. I can’t figure out any other reason why it always gives me error messages. Boo!
August 14th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
one more thing i’ve noticed…they keep lowering the price for monthly subscriptions(i now pay only $9 for a month)..pretty soon i guess they’ll be paying ME to read it! I don’t think they will ever go away because too many people still don’t have computers.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I don’t read newspapers anymore with the exceptions of the pop culture sections and the ads on Sundays. I typically get all of my news more quickly on the web. Besides, recycling is such a pain, especially if the get the paper delivered every day.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I don’t subscribe to a paper newspaper anymore. Too much guilt! When I did have a subscription, the papers stacked up, unread. Then, I felt guilty about not reading them, guilty that the house was a mess and guilty about wasting paper (although we did recycle them after they sat around for awhile). I will read a paper newspaper occasionally if I am at lunch without anything to read, or if I visit relatives with a paper version.
Most of my news reading is online. However, I still want quality writing and I want journalists to have a way to make a living – the newspaper industry needs to find a way to make this possible, even as paper subscriptions dwindle. I find that I read more articles, more often and look at more news sources than I ever did when I had a paper subscription. I do think we need to be concerned about how to archive our news for posterity. I am a librarian, and our library subscribes to various online newspaper and magazine archives. But, as formats change, will these still be available 100 years in the future?