Community Chat

[We rescue cats]

Our local paper went down to reduced publication days. We now do not have a printed newspaper on Tuesday or Sunday.The online version publish on Tuesday, there is one online paper for the "Weekend Edition". Advertising dollars have shrunk, cost of the paper to print on have risen. . . And here in our small town advertisers have closed shops. The internet is a vicious adversary. 

[CelticCrafter]

We stopped the daily newspaper a really long time ago when it was going from the front door right into the recycling bin because we had no time to look at it.

We would pick up just the Sunday paper for the sale circulars and coupons but like someone upthread said, Covid killed that and don't even do that anymore.

We do get grocery sale circulars in the mail and the coupon circular they include is laughable.  They're all health and beauty coupons, nothing for food anymore.

[Carmie]

In my area, one of the largest newspapers in the state stopped publishing a paper seven days a week back in 2012.

Now there is an actual paper published on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.  The news is now on the Internet.

Some of the digital news is free to read, but a lot of it requires a subscription.

I don't subscribe for an actual paper or for the digital version.  I missed it at first, now I don't really care.

I read news from all over the USA and the world everyday.  The local paper doesn't even interest me anymore.

I do read the obits...which doesn't require a subscription.  I can check local news on the TV stations website.

[Sooner]

Skilled labor to run presses and make the plates is probably in dwindling supply.  We have to save the earth and eliminate paper. Who would deliver papers now?  And it's a different world.

No bottled milk delivery from the farm either.  

[Still Raining]

I have a couple of digital subscriptions.  A totally different feel to the experience.  

[jlkz]

@catter70 

I could have written your post myself:  over 50 years of holding various newspapers and books in hand.

I am turning 80 in less than three weeks and converted to digital papers when the price became outrageous and delivery service became an issue.  The digital price for the same paper was half the paper price !

It grew on me:  if I awoke at 4:30, the " paper " was on my iPad and ready for viewing.  My hands were always clean after putting the " paper " down.  I can always immediately access the last thing I was reading if was interrupted and returned a few minutes or hours later.  Convenience yes !  I could sit on the swing on a breezy day and read the digital paper comfortably.  What do I miss: the smell of fresh newsprint, completing the crossword puzzle ( Words with Friends is a great substitute ), and " bundling up " the month's worth of papers for recycling.

I have been reading ebooks from the Cloud Library app free for cardholders from my local library.  Super convenient and comfortable: I can eat my cereal while reading " hands free. "

DH is thinking of going totally digital for his new hobby of reading....could be because the last book he read was very " heavy ", lol !!!

He has gotten used to iPads so this transition is easier.  Enlarging text could also be at play, lol. !

Change is constant: materials, methods, job skills, etc.  

[catter70]

@jlkz , I can get a lot of my paper online, but not all of it. I'll think about signing up for the entire paper as I'll still be getting the paper until Feb. They had already stopped printing a Sat. paper last year and also removed the Sunday Parade which I always enjoyed. Doing the crosswords for me is something else I'll miss doing on paper. I still like cutting out paper coupons, too, though they're not much good anymore. Online isn't the same. Have to stock up from the $ store, I guess. Thanks for your input.