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I, like others, have a habit of reading the newspaper in the AM over coffee. I often have the TV turned on to a news channel. Seems like overkill, I know, but that's been my AM routine for years.
The cost of the paper delivered seven days a week is only about $20/month. I have been looking at the cost of $240 annually as something that I could probably get along without, as the actual news that I get from it is not really unique.
Is the local newspaper becoming a thing of the past with several TV news channels as well as a multitude of online sources for news? Probably so. Will I cancel my subscription? Not sue.
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I couldn't tell you the last time I picked up a newspaper. I get all the news online because a physical newspaper by its very nature can be outdated as soon as it's printed. It must be at least five years and that was only because I was stuck in a waiting room.
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I like the Sunday papers but only pick them up occasionally. When I know I'm going to have time to stay in bed with a mug of something hot beside me and be able to sprawl them all over the place, that's the days I get one.
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The cost of the paper delivered seven days a week is only about $20/month. I have been looking at the cost of $240 annually as something that I could probably get along without, as the actual news that I get from it is not really unique.
I think, micharch, that $240 is a lot of money to save by looking at it online. But you get a lot of pleasure from your routine it looks like, so maybe you could justify it under mental wellbeing. Lord knows we have few enough small pleasures in life. I don't get a paper but used to read our local one religiously every day in case anyone was in it I knew. Once it went online, I stopped getting it and then I moved away from home and just got out the habit of looking at it online even.
You could also think of it as supporting your local business. I was reading last month about the Rocky Mountain News in Denver having to close, one of the oldest local papers around. It would have celebrated 150 years in April. I hate to see any longstanding business close its doors but just as radio fell by the wayside for television, I see print newspapers going the same way as more turn to the net for news.
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Me too. Still love newspapers. My local paper just went from 50 cents to $1.00 though. I usually read at a coffee shop or restaurant, and now I have to find 4 quarters just to buy one.
The newspaper industry is really in a slump since the younger crowd is getting their news from the internet, or increasingly, from their cell phones.