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Angie4b1g

Angie4b1g

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Do you still read it? Do you get home delivery? Or all online now?

The only one I get is the one that comes free, and it's the local town one. I'd say I read it half the time. Nothing ever breaking news since it's only a weekly paper, so I don't learn much. The police blotter is usually amusing though. Once we were even on Leno for something silly in the blotter. :giggle
 
Nope. We don't get the paper at home or online. Seems like Facebook and Yahoo pretty much tell me what I need to know these days.
 
No paper subscriptions here. I wouldn't mind getting our local weekly paper, but not enough to pay for it. Some of my neighbors get it for free, so I refuse to subscribe! haha!

My DH gets the WSJ online for his iPad and reads that daily.

I do however, still get a slew of magazines.
 
We get the daily both to our door and on the iPad. My husband reads it daily plus several others on-line. Me, not so much. I've canceled all magazines. I enjoyed reading them but never wanted to throw them out and that was a problem. Now I read on the Internet.
 
I've never had a newspaper subscription. I watch the local news on TV + check Facebook.

Isn't it funny how things like that change while you're not looking? I remember that EVERYONE got a newspaper when I was growing up, and now the only people I know who get the paper are my parents' age. The same thing with landlines, too. I think my sister & BIL might have one (although I have no idea what the number is), but otherwise, the only people I know with landlines are my parents and my ILs.
 
I get all my news online and on television anymore. We have a station that plays local news all day long with national updates only for important stuff. So we are always less than 10 minutes away from a weather update. If there is any sort of hurricane ANYWHERE near Florida, the weather stuff takes up much of the coverage.
 
no paper for years... and then i walked by the sweetest little old man trying to sell me the local paper ... and couldn't say no to him. so i rec'd it for a year ... had high intentions of being an awesome coupon clipper but things just did not work out & i cancelled.

i like to get my news online, but mostly i live under a rock. sadly i come here more than the online news venues and often the pad tells me the latest gossip first.
 
So I've worked for newspapers for almost 20 years - as a reporter, copy editor, designer - and I've never had a subscription! I'm part of the reason we're failing as an industry!!! I read all my news online.

Most of the stuff in our papers is so bad or boring that I don't even want to read it - so I don't blame you guys for not reading them either! LOL!
 
no paper for us... just online. We used to get one for coupons, but that stopped. News channels, FB, other sites are all my go to source for info.
 
I used to get the paper just for the coupons and ads, but I rarely find coupons for the types of things I buy now and you can find all the ads online, so I cancelled. Less paper being wasted that way.
 
We got rid of our newspaper delivery tripled in price. I'm not even sure they deliver here anymore. Hubby watches the news faithfully. I read the big stuff on Yahoo & my gossip on TMZ.
 
no paper here either ... its all online for me. I never liked the ink coming off on my fingers so the change over to online news was a no-brainer for me :)
 
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