Posted on 06/17/2016 4:47:13 AM PDT by Zakeet
Not if you have to pay for it. Absolutely not. If it’s laying on the table at a cafe where you go drink coffee, fine. If it’s a local paper and you have a keen interest in local events, I guess that’s another possibility. Our “local” paper is 90% stories from the AP which are pure crap, and local stories about nothing I care about. Completely worthless and contentless.
The WSJ (other than its op-ed) pages and IBD and Barron’s and FT are good reads.
The newspaper is yesterday’s or longer news.
NO.
Have not subscribed to a newspaper in over 10 years. At one time I read 2 every morning and enjoyed it.
Yes, reading a newspaper is a good way to strike up a conversation with the fairer sex(that would be women!)
It is amazing, and it is pretty effective. Just by repetition, they can hypnotize half the public into completely ignoring Islam.
would not take a newspaper if it was free these days!
Local newsweeklies that acturally report the local news.
Obituaries,
Local crime
arrests
local politics and
school board issues
Give local candidates a forum
show pics of local events and write ups.
Best papers ever
I’m 52, and probably on the generational boarder of a newspaper reader and not. Yes, I read my morning paper, but to be clear, I live in a smaller community where the local paper is largely local stuff (road construction, new stores going in, old ones being torn down, local sports and school news, etc., with some local crime mixed in). They have to include a USA Today section to make the paper three full sections.
I enjoy reading it. I would miss it if it were gone. Keeps me aware. Not a primary news source for national or global news. Just a morning ritual that I have breakfast to.
The big city papers are dying for the same reason the middle class has moved away from the big cities. Inner city folks don't generally read so in order to attract this remaining clientele, the journalism is aimed at the lower common denominator.
Newspaper production requires the murder of innocent trees...for no useful purpose.
If you go back to the Civil War era newspapers clearly identified who they supported. This was most frequently occurred in their title banner or editorial pages.
For some reason about the turn of the century (the 18th turning into the 20th) this self identification of political/social orientation stopped. But, there was a balance in most large markets - two or more daily newspapers.
About the Viet Nam era (late 1950s onwards) newspapers started hiring, almost exclusively, graduates of journalism schools. The days of growing your own reporting staff died and the newspapers started dying.
What we are seeing today is only an acceleration of that trend. In the mid 1980s when I lasted moved the Sunday paper was quite robust - articles, opinion, news, and advertising. Now the Sunday paper is maybe the size of the old Thursday edition.
Me? I haven’t subscribed to the local paper in 15 + years. Why pay the salary and bonuses of people who either no clue or are so biased that you throw the paper in the trash before ou read half of it?
Newsprint mills are in decline. So are newspapers.
The problem, if it is one, will resolve itself.
NO
>Interesting you mention that. The AOL Patch website used to carry a very useful and detailed police blotter. Then AOL pulled the plug on it and I could not find it in any other publication. I emailed the police department, and they started emailing a weekly copy of the blotter to me. Those mysteriously stopped about six months ago.
For many years my dad read the police blotter emails from the local police. His town had been invaded by section 8 thugs crime was constantly increasing. As he prepped to move away he had a conversation with a local cop about crime. Turns out the police blotter was only including 5 to 10% of the actual crimes going on. The worst crimes like home invasion/torture/rapes where almost always excluded in order to not to alarm people.
Newspapers are for the birds.
...crossword puzzle... comics.,... uh... that’s about it.
Is this true? Did the police hesitate to enter the club? I have seen this on other threads, too.
“...The media reports on Politics, NRA, Trump, Christians, assault rifles...but they will not discuss the Koran instructing this person to kill all infidels...the cause and reason are EVERYTHING ELSE other than Islam and its goals.”
That’s why it’s called “propoganda” or “spin”. The MSM is America’s version of Pravda during the Soviet days. Their sole purpose is to promote the left-wing agenda. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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