If you stopped reading a newspaper out of boredom or because it's the money

[DainBramaged]

you saved a tree

. There, isn't clean air wonderful. Pat yourself on the back. And if you think I'm throwing newspaper Unions under the bus, I'm not. The world is changing. I have very good information from friends in the industry that Gannett is abandoning NJ and will only keep the Asbury Park Press going because THE PEOPLE WHO READ NEWSPAPERS ARE TOO OLD TO DRIVE and probably don't have computers and don't buy anything the advertisers USED to advertise in said newspapers. The NY Daily News is fighting for it's life, as is the Newark Star Ledger and the NY Times in my area and The Record in Bergen County. Hell, I remember back in the 80's when the Ledger had a Sunday circulation of over 2,000,000, a legitimate 2,000,000 because I advertised in it. Now it barely gets a quarter million people to pick it up on Sunday, and mostly (as another friend in the business pointed out) because of coupons. NO ONE advertises in the jobs section of the classified any more. And the paper is thinner than Newsweek or Time magazines (another venue that is rapidly declining in circulation).


Those of us here on DU get our news VIA THIS THING CALLED THE INNERTUBES, no paper necessary. And no more newsprint stains on your fingers. And if your dog still needs newsprint to pee on, there are alternatives, and they are cheap, unless of course they like the fashion section. Good "newspapers" will survive on the Internet, and so will their advertisers, columnists, reporters, and photographers.


OH, and as my beautiful Daughter JUST pointed out, her IPhone is what SHE uses for news when she is sitting eating breakfast. Isn't technology grand!

:smoke:

[tridim]

1. I stopped because I can't ctrl-F a newspaper.

[Horse with no Name]

2. I quit reading them because when I am done reading via the web

my lazy ass doesn't have to pick them up off the floor.:)

[DainBramaged]

4. Yeah kiss a tree

[Raine]

3. I quit subscribing because

I didn't want all those piles of paper building up ... saves trees.

[Mike 03]

5. It's the miracle of the Internet. I've become relatively agile at tactically locating

information of all kinds quickly.

On the other hand, I know there is a lot I miss because I ignore the 80% of material that doesn't interest me.

My parents read the NYT, which is still a formidable paper (most of the time).

My father has shifted from reading WSJ on paper to just reading it online.

[DainBramaged]

8. Back in that era long ago, the 90's the Sunday ritual

was going for fresh bagels, bacon, eggs, and the papers. And we read most of the papers. Then life changed and this thing called the computerz changed everything. I don't eat eggs or bacon any more, my family is grown up, and I read everything I WANT to read in the first hour that I wake up by clicking on DU every morning.

[hobbit709]

6. I stopped reading the local fishwrap because that's all it was good for.

On a good day it was slightly right of center, but judging from the letters to the editor it was a radical left wing paper. But most of the writers probably considered anything to the left of Hitler liberal.
I also delivered it for 6 years. The best one was the day I was told that I couldn't criticize anything they did. My response "In an establishment that owes its very existence to the First Amendment telling me i can't exercise my right. And as you guys are so fond of pointing out, I'm not an employee but an "Independent Contractor" and this INDEPENDENT Contractor has an INDEPENDENT OPINION"

[TrogL]

7. There were no newspapers worth reading

The choices were far-right-wing, right-wing and right-centrist with a focus on a completely different part of the country.

[Fleshdancer]

9. I don't like to touch newspaper

The feel of it is just as irritating to me as nails on a chalkboard. My local paper (and news channels) post articles and news stories online so I don't really need to read the paper.

[old mark]

10. I stopped reading them long before the internet.

I got so angry about the political garbage I saw in my area papers, and I realised the best way to not be so wired was to stop the source. Did not notice the loss, glad to hear I saved a few trees, too.

mark

[GentryDixon]

11. I recycle my paper.

I am trying to support the Salt Lake Tribune, to keep the Mormon owned, Church approved, Desert News from being the only newspaper for Salt Lake City Metro.

Granted, I don't read a great deal of it, mostly local & political comments/cartoons.

I have struggled about dropping my subscription, but in fact I find little known "to do" things in the print edition I do not find online. Plus I am keeping a few people employed. Like my delivery person, who is trying to support herself, her daughter & grandchildren.

[justgamma]

12. I blame the pukes for the demise of newspapers.

They've convinced all the doofusses that if the papers print the truth they have a "liberal" bias. So the news people have to bend over and make it seem like they aren't.
The liberals know that the papers only say what the pukes want,

So now, nobody believes what they report. End of newspapers.

[DainBramaged]

16. Good point.

[indepat]

13. Recently stopped the daily newspaper: got tired seeing every last 'puke talking point printed daily

as a letter to the editor so hope them fuckers go broke!

[JI7]

14. i use to read the LA Times regularly but then they turned right and stopped

[daleo]

15. Newspapers became too right wing

Not much news, but lots of right wing blowhards pontificating on matters that they didn't understand. The best of them just reiterated simplistic theory I knew from Econ 101, the worst of them couldn't even manage that.

It's a shame, because a reasonably objective news gathering services is important to have, even for discussion groups like this. I hope that is what will arise from the ashes of the current media conglomerates after they fail, assuming they don't constantly get bailed out one way or another by government money and/or cozy regulatory regimes meant to perpetuate the status quo.