I have the local paper delivered every day. I read as much of it as I can before leaving for work. Then the cats like to play with it...
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Do you buy a newspaper on a daily basis?
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currently I do not pay for the new paper but I pick up a copy of the local paper and the university and read it from there. After I get out of school I plan on having it delivered to my house.
Reason for it---
It is really nice to have something to read while eating breakfast or drinking my morning coffee. That and it is something I will read on the couch. if a section has an article or 2 that interested me and I do not have time to read it I will put it in my bag and read it in while waiting for class to start or after I get where I am going.
If I ever take public transportation I will be able to read it there. There just are a lot of things the Internet can not do dealing with the morning paper. Plus reading the paper it self is so much easier to do that reading it on a computer monitor or at least more enjoyable. and lastly Comics. I love the comics. Much MUCH easier to read them in the paper than online.
But all the reasons I listed above are well worth the 50 cents a day that I will at some point have to pay.
Reason for it---
It is really nice to have something to read while eating breakfast or drinking my morning coffee. That and it is something I will read on the couch. if a section has an article or 2 that interested me and I do not have time to read it I will put it in my bag and read it in while waiting for class to start or after I get where I am going.
If I ever take public transportation I will be able to read it there. There just are a lot of things the Internet can not do dealing with the morning paper. Plus reading the paper it self is so much easier to do that reading it on a computer monitor or at least more enjoyable. and lastly Comics. I love the comics. Much MUCH easier to read them in the paper than online.
But all the reasons I listed above are well worth the 50 cents a day that I will at some point have to pay.
I buy and read a newspaper everyday or night I should say.
Just as I still read printed books
Just as I still draw with a pencil or markers on paper
Just as I still write letters with pen and ink
An all-digital day would be very odd.
My fingertips need to feel something different from a keyboard and my eyes need a rest from a screen.
For me it is not so much about being up to date always got BBC News 24 for that. Turning the sheets, pages, gives you time to think reflect.
Maybe because I am getting on in years
We only get the Sunday paper. The rest of the news comes from watching the news or browsing the internet. The weekday papers would just end up taking up unnecessary space in our apartment. We have enough magazines and junk mail to deal with already as it is. At least with the Sunday paper you get coupons. It's just too much of a pain to haul all the paper/trash to the dumpsters every other day to warrant getting the daily paper.
It's just too much of a pain to haul all the paper/trash to the dumpsters every other day to warrant getting the daily paper.
We take a regional daily, a county daily and a local twice-weekly. IMO, people who don't read newspapers are less well informed, either by choice or because they rarely run across any information that they were not already seeking. The internet is a great place for reading things which reinforce your own opinion, but not a very good one for discovering new things.
I literally can't remember the last time I bought a 'paper. I follow current events, but, frankly, I feel that if one wants to be distracted, misinformed and mislead one need only read/watch/listen to the news. What a farce!
I used to go and buy the Guardian at 6-am every day pre Interweb days and I'm talking decades here,now I just read their editorials online.Reading loads of papers online quickly shows just how crap most of them are (Guardian is an honourable exception even though it's crap with somethings as well).You can read a story on the news wires and then watch as papers pick it up and ruthlessly steal each others take on it sometimes hours, days or even weeks later.Unfortunately as each year goes past there are less and less principled journalists out there and I'm sad to say print papers are in their death throes.
You see so much repetition online because instead of doing any original reporting these sources are simply reprinting wire service stories. Newspapers are in their death throes because increasingly readers are willing to accept a lack of original reporting and not because the newspapers aren't doing any.
I agree there are still people doing great work but it is increasingly difficult to get printed, there are papers all over the world who are struggling against the tide of garbage being put out by the big media conglomerates but they are few in number and they're losing.I read a lot and the good reporting is there it's just hard to get at.
Less and less. The newspapers have been reducing their news bureaus steadily for years now, first internationally then locally, paring way back on original reporting. It's simply cheaper to reprint wire service or media pool stories. The main source of the pressure to cut back on expensive original investigative reporting is the internet.
Only if I'm in it.
If that isn't the case, I catch up on my Google News. I likes me some national news.
If that isn't the case, I catch up on my Google News. I likes me some national news.
While the Internet does figure in this it has both positive and negative impact,the voices of many directly involved in stories for instance are now easier to hear.An example of what's going on is the BBC who have criticised the present UK government to the point of being threatened with having their charter withdrawn,getting rid of some of the top bods put that off but now the government is getting revenge by cutting the funding to them.I don't idealise the BBC but they are the largest semi independent news gathering organisation and they tried to stand up to the government with the results above.
I agree.
I used to stop and pick up the New York Times for $1 every day, but when I started going to ASU, I discovered that there is a free stack of them in the Student Union, so now I read it for free every day. Saves me money and I read a lot of stories I wouldn't have found online. Plus, crossword puzzles are only fun when you do them in the newspaper.
In theory this is true, but far less so in practice I think. Many of the new voices we hear on the 'net are simply people expressing their opinions, which is not the same as reporting. Also, the profusion of news sources online is far more of an illusion than a reality, as a great deal of it is simply repetitious -- the same sources reprinted over and over. Just try doing some research on a news story online and I think you'll see my point. Most of what you'll find is references to a single wire service report, and precious little original reporting. And of course you get thousands of people spouting off in blogs, which is pretty much useless in terms of learning anything really new.
The BBC is a bit of an exception, in that they are government supported and consequently somewhat insulated from the commercial forces at work in the news and reporting marketplace.
As a former Journalism major, I hate to admit I don't buy newspaper. I rather read current news stories on MSNBC, Business Week, BBC, News Week, and other online sites. When I am on business trip, most of the hotels I stay have the complimentary USA Today (or local newspaper) and I pick it up to read while eating dinner or eating breakfast. If the stories are listed on the well-known news sites, I found the content and quality of the articles are as good as print newspaper.
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I've always bought the newspaper at weekends. It's just the most pleasing thing to be able to read all the bits and pieces over cups of coffee at the weekend.
My parents used to get the Independent, and when I left home I tended to buy the Independent and the Scotsman. When I moved back to London, that changed into the Independent and the Guardian, and I realised I liked the Guardian more, and so have just bought that for the last few years. My work gets the Guardian, the Scotsman and the Daily Record delivered each day, which pretty much fulfils all my news gaps.
I quite happily read news online, but the weekend supplements would be a hard habit to give up. I loves me some Guardian/Observer bits.
My parents used to get the Independent, and when I left home I tended to buy the Independent and the Scotsman. When I moved back to London, that changed into the Independent and the Guardian, and I realised I liked the Guardian more, and so have just bought that for the last few years. My work gets the Guardian, the Scotsman and the Daily Record delivered each day, which pretty much fulfils all my news gaps.
I quite happily read news online, but the weekend supplements would be a hard habit to give up. I loves me some Guardian/Observer bits.
I get the San Francisco Chronicle delivered to my door every morning. I prefer the ability to browse through the entire paper and catch all of the articles. I just find it hard to easily browse online versions of newspapers...you get the top stories (sometimes organized by section), but I always feel like I miss a lot of things that get buried in the site. Hard-copy makes it easier to read cover-to-cover.
Nope I only buy a paper if a sports team from my city win something big, like when the bears won sunday.