... about the only thing associated with the mainstream media that I'd even consider looking at these days ...
... about the only thing associated with the mainstream media that I'd even consider looking at these days ...
No
Jefferson said, “a mnn who doesn’t read the news everyday is uninformed, a man who does read the news everyday is misinformed.”
We always buy the “double” Washington Post package every Sunday (the Sunday edition and Saturday’s “Early Sunday” edition)
Two full sets of coupons, and more than enough newsprint to supply padding to any package we might send.
And we shred the rest and add it to the compost pile. . .
But use it for NEWS ? Hardly. . .
I knew the newspapers were in trouble 20 years ago when the New York Times Correction section was larger than the Sunday Magazine section.
No.
Newsprint is yucky.
Amazing the obfuscation. A Muslim terrorist kills 49 people and the media reports on ANY topic EXCEPT terrorism. 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. (Love the pic!).
I read our statewide and local rags online.
The statewide paper (Newark Star Ledger) is Pravda printed in English, and our local paper is just... terrible.
I wouldn’t spend three cents to subscribe to either of them.
What’s a newspaper?
“Is It Worth Reading a Newspaper Anymore?”
Do you have parakeets?
“Is It Worth Reading a Newspaper Anymore?”
Only for the coupons.
No... don’t watch TV either . Internet and AM radio is sole source of “events” that are the trip wires that make me research a subject matter or event more but every source of news and educational information is agenda driven.
Awareness of such disinformation efforts and the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff is key when reading, listening, watching or even witnessing current events.
Who profits, who is their primary market, who are their advertisers, bank etc ?
my opinion.....
Newspapers are dying. They have taken a slow active poison (deciding to become activist rather then impartial reporters of facts).
Newspapers have forgotten what their product is. The “news” (and all other features) are just content, their product is eyeballs. They are in the advertising business. The content gets the eyeball to the ads. The ads pay for everything.
By choosing sides they in effect cut off half of their potential readers. Add to that the fact that reading a daily paper is a generational thing. Young people for the most part do not read newspapers. So as the last generation dies off, so do subscriptions to the papers die off.
As a point of record I stopped reading newspapers almost 20 years ago when I realized every story on every subject had a liberal slant.
I no longer take in a paper, but they can be the best availa le source for local news, as most web sites aren’t as complete. Newspapers should also be read by those in politics if they need to know what people who read newspapers are reading.
Well over 90% of all news that I read is online. When we travel, I’ll often read a paper that is in the hotel lobby just to see what’s different in the area. International newspapers are the most interesting. Otherwise for daily/weekly news, it’s all online.
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!)
would not take a newspaper if it was free these days!