Newspapers - a query

[Rum_Pirate]

Many posters on this forum quote and make reference to various newspapers.

How many here actually buy a daily newspaper?

Or do you get your news off the TV of internet?

Oh hell, I'll make a poll

[Norman Bernstein]

I haven't read a physical newspaper in years. I sometimes download the Boston globe, but I get the majority of my news from the net, cable news, and network news. In the case of the net, it comes from a half dozen or more websites.

[B_B]

I LOVE physical newspapers, the smell, the feel, the unweildyness. Them and a cup o' Joe. Nothing better. The New York Times used to be a special treat when I lived near civilization.

That said, we get a weekly that's so badly written and so full of nothing that I've stopped reading it for the most part. The dailies available are only of the conservative variety, are usually two or more days late, and cost an arm and a leg...so I read my news on-line. The Globe and Mail and Slate and TMQ and the WBF. That's about all I make time for.

We don't have a telly so I watch some Jon Stewart on-line every once in a while.

[Garret]

NPR + Internet I voted "Other" because NPR is my main source.

[Rich Jones]

I read Long island's Newsday every day for 33 years. Moved to Vermont and now get my news off the net. No local paper delivery available and I'd have to drive five miles to the nearest store.

[Phillip Allen]

internet... internet news papers, NPR and 'other'

including the screamers here in the bilge

also, a direct UPI or AP wire (I forget which)... cross checked with news papers... that is how I learned about the lies

[Captain Intrepid]

Internet most of the time but the telly when I'm at sea.

[The Bigfella]

internet... internet news papers, NPR and 'other'

including the screamers here in the bilge

also, a direct UPI or AP wire (I forget which)... cross checked with news papers... that is how I learned about the lies

Mark? Is that you?

.......... yes, daily newspaper... when in Oz, and from time to time OS, but its only one of many sources.

[Phillip Allen]

Mark? Is that you?

.......... yes, daily newspaper... when in Oz, and from time to time OS, but its only one of many sources.

I'll go on to say, 'any source' even the lies are newsworthy

[Nicholas Scheuer]

We read our Rockford Register Star daily, and the Chicago Trib on Sunday.

[hokiefan]

My employer has the local paper delivered daily to the lunchroom, so I page through it occasionally. I enjoy it but I can't spend too long there or I run out of day before I run out of stuff to do. Most national and international stuff I find on the innertubes.

Cheers,

Bobby

[The Bigfella]

I'll go on to say, 'any source' even the lies are newsworthy

... what's funny about that is, a decent, formal even, education helps one spot the lies.

It even helps one spot the paranoid, delusional idiots more easily.

[elf]

I hardly ever purchase a newspaper, however a friend of mine gives me his daily subscription to the regional and local papers every 3 months or so and I read thru them while sitting on the john. So I'm always 2 or 3 months behind but I also get headlines from one of those papers every day in my email box and subscribe to the FB page of the other.

I also get NYT headlines, and subscribe to a number of NPR podcasts - Diane Rehm, Talk of the Nation and Fresh Air.

And I receive the New Yorker in my mail box every week and usually manage to read it before the next one comes.

[The Bigfella]

I hardly ever purchase a newspaper, however a friend of mine gives me his daily subscription to the regional and local papers every 3 months or so and I read thru them while sitting on the john. So I'm always 2 or 3 months behind but I also get headlines from one of those papers every day in my email box and subscribe to the FB page of the other.

I also get NYT headlines, and subscribe to a number of NPR podcasts - Diane Rehm, Talk of the Nation and Fresh Air.

And I receive the New Yorker in my mail box every week and usually manage to read it before the next one comes.

Dare I ask? You only sit on the john once a week?

[purri]

... what's funny about that is, a decent, formal even, education helps one spot the lies.

It even helps one spot the paranoid, delusional idiots more easily.

Methinks this is a somewhat ambiguous post.

[The Bigfella]

Methinks this is a somewhat ambiguous post.

Tail sniffing time again eh? Always following along behind.

[Meli]

ABC radio mainly, the bilge for merican, oz pol for oz, al Jazira for international.

[purri]

Really? Might I suggest you construct unambiguous sentences that others won't find your posts so amusing.

Tail sniffing time again eh? Always following along behind.

[The Bigfella]

Really? Might I suggest you construct unambiguous sentences that others won't find your posts so amusing.

Oh, sorry..... I didn't realise I was intruding on your territory

[Peerie Maa]

I voted Internet, 'cos I read newspapers on line. However this needed to be multiple choice 'cos I buy a paper if I an making a journey by rail, and I also watch the news on the BeeB

[Stiletto]

I voted Internet, 'cos I read newspapers on line. However this needed to be multiple choce

Agreed, I voted for TV because that is where I get the headlines, but I get the follow-up in-depth stuff online.

[skuthorp]

I buy a newspaper every day, for the time being we are blessed with a reasonable one but it's time is limited. But I also read the press online. The Guardiann NYT sometimes, Salon.com, and a random pick from SEAsia or Sth America or France or wherever if there is an english language version. I've even read this one http://www.penguin-news.com/

[Ian McColgin]

I was so lucky as a kid in the '50s-early '60s. In Social Studies from 7th grade on -this was a public school remember - we took the Sunday New York Times Week In Review section and studied it, talked about it. We were mostly a WASP Republican community but there were some Dodgers fans (the Jews and Catholics who were the Democrats) and a very small black community centered at the AME Church and we managed spirited and civilized discourse.

I also loved the lineotype at the local Three Villiage Herald.

And so grew up loving the paper.

Then as a community organizer I learned to value the local press. They say you can run a good local if you can stay with the holy trinity of HS sports, obits, and police log. But local business news, town hall reports and all that help crack the relationships that form the local power structure pretty fast, even when the local paper is bought and biased.

Reporters are different. They really like the story. They are just plain nosey and curious. And they get it out in print in public pretty fast, owning their errors along the way. So much better than bloggers who think it's a fact if it's in a sentence.

[elf]

Dare I ask? You only sit on the john once a week?

?

Having trouble with reading comprehension I see.

[bob winter]

I do have a paper delivered each day but mostly to get local news and keep an eye on the death notices. I also listen to the CBC news and use the internet quite a bit.

[Rum_Pirate]

I do have a paper delivered each day but mostly to get local news and keep an eye on the death notices. I also listen to the CBC news and use the internet quite a bit.

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” attributed to Clarence Darrow

[Phillip Allen]

Tail sniffing time again eh? Always following along behind.

he just wants to know what you've been eating

[purri]

^ I believe it's GIGO.

[seanz]

A short 21st Century anecdote........

Recently I did the collect-mail-while-on-holiday job for my neighbour. He gets the paper delivered. He said I could have them if I liked, to read and dispose of as I see fit. I kept them, still wrapped in plastic, and returned them to him with his mail. I used to buy a paper every day.....but that was back in the 20th Century.