The disappearing dead-tree audience
There are some interesting results in the latest release of nationwide newspaper circulation figures. Overall circulation is down 2.6 percent. USAT reports:
USA TODAY, published by industry leader Gannett (GCI), kept its place as the largest daily newspaper in the country and also chalked up a 1% gain in circulation to 2,293,137 for the six months ending in September, according to preliminary figures filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations, an industry group based in Schaumburg, Ill.
The Wall Street Journal remained No. 2 in average total paid daily circulation, with 2,011,882, down 1.53%. The Journal’s parent company, Dow Jones (DJ), is in the process of being acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NWS).The New York Times was No. 3 at 1,037,828, a decline of 4.5%.
Newspaper circulation has been eroding steadily over the past 20 years, as reading habits change and as people turn to other media such as cable TV for news. In recent years the declines have been accelerating, especially at large metro papers, where there tends to be greater competition from Internet usage.
Believe it or not, the Los Angeles Times inched up .5 percent; the NYPost was down 5 percent.
The NYTimes’s daily circulation plunged 4.51% and Sunday circulation plunged 7.59%.
It’s all Bush’s fault!
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Brian Maloney has an excellent post taking on MSM outlets who have the chutzpah to be lecturing talk radio about content:
At a time when paid newspaper circulation has taken yet another major nosedive, why do our mainstream media friends feel the need to lecture talk radio regarding its content? Ours is a competing, yet thriving medium.
Perhaps the unsolicited advice should be flowing in the other direction.
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Parting question: I’m curious about how many of you still subscribe to a dead-tree newspaper. It’s been years since I had one delivered to my home. How about you?
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I blame the ice age for fewer trees.
Newsweek on the cooling world
I get my news from the internet. I can’t remember the last time I read a dead tree newspaper. Oh, I read my last dead tree newspaper in 2003.
My husband and I have never subscribed to a paper. We don’t even have television (at all, no cable, no bunny ears). We get all of our news from the internet, mostly Foxnews.com and this site, of course.
Occasionally I’ll read an article or two in Newsweek while waiting somewhere. It makes me remember why I don’t waste my money on that junk!
Will Rogers once said “Everything I need to know I read in the newspapers.” Not any more.
I have noticed that my general level of awareness has RISEN SHARPLY since I stopped subscribing, and getting my information from people who still know how to deliver a story without politicizing it.
Bwahahahahahaha! The chickens are coming home to roost, let the slow painful death of the dinosaur media continue.
Having experienced the first Earth Day, and having participated in several paper drives in grade school, and having learned so much from the Goracle, I’m proud to say that I’ve been newspaper free for at least 10 years. That means I have lots and lots of newspaper carbon credits that I can offer for sale. Any takers out there?
USA today is only number one due primarily to its hotel clients.
For the last two months the San Francisco examiner has been hiring people to hand these out at the BART stations – Free papers…
They were out in full force this morning. Free NY Times at my Station coming in to the City and then at the SF station, one for the Examiner and Chronical on the way out of the station….if I wanted, I could have taken three crappy papers and paid zilch!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.
I’m with DelosWorld, I have many carbon offsets from not buying newspapers for over 12 years. so global warming freaks, this will hold me until the next mini ice age beginning in 2015…
I don’t subscribe to any dead-tree newspapers, and never have. I do pick up a copy of the campus newspaper for the school where I work though, to keep me up to date on local issues.
The only paper I subscribe to is the Baker County Standard, and that’s because I write a weekly column for them. Otherwise, my fingers stay clean by using the keyboard and trackball to get my information. I love small-town America!
Although I don’t agree with them on every issue (illegal immigration first comes to mind), the WSJ Opinion Page runs some brilliant pieces. I would strongly recommend the Journal to all conservatives who want to supplement their daily blog-reading.
I discontinued the Fort Worth Startlegram over ten years ago and haven’t looked back.
I receive the Wall Street Journal at work during the week and at home on Saturdays. It is the newspaper of note although not inerrant. We also subscribe to the Omaha World Herald on Sundays. BDS symptoms are infrequent. We do not subscribe to the paper from the nearest town since, while owned by the OWH, it seems to be a socialist tool for the perceived proletariat. That would be the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpariel. Perplexing and appalling to see such rubbish published from a small agricultural town.
Al Gore’s warmist campaign is convincing people to drop their dead-tree papers. Al Gore wins (again) and 10’s of thousands of newspaper industry workers lose their jobs!
Americans not reading newspapers – who would of thought?
I don’t have the paper delivered to my apartment, however I am thinking about picking up the Sunday paper after noticing how packed full of coupons they are the other day. I’m sorry, but I love coupons, and I was surprised at how many their really are.
Other than that, I see no reason to get a paper. Additionally, I work from home so I use a fraction of the fuel that most people do. I just find it funny that me, a “global warming denier”, am actually MUCH more eco-friendly than the tree hugger crowd, which you know make up the readership of these papers, because the content plays to their biases, and everyone else has woken up.
Last time I read an actual newspaper I was a child and my Mother was a reporter. Given my age, that would put it back when reporting was still reporting and opinions were only expressed on the op-ed page. I guess my years are showing.
There I fixed it for ya.
Your dig regarding Americans not being voracious readers… swing and a miss! Thanks for playing though.
My husband and I do not subscribe to or purchase any newspapers, but I occasionally pick up the paper when I visit my sister, who receives the Wall Street Journal, or my parents, who receive the Washington Times.
Haven’t read a daily in years. Get The Washington Time National Weekly Edition and it fills in the blanks that I don’t otherwise see on the ‘net.
My parents stopped receiving newspapers years ago but still receive some of their news from the Old Media. I receive news purely from the New Media (namely this site and talk radio).
Nope, no subscriptions to any of the fledging newspapers. From time I get a solicitation for subscription from the NY Times which I welcome, as that provides comic relief money can’t buy.
#8
Bingo!
The vast majority of “newspapers” are nothing more than another extension of liberal propaganda. The same deterioration has been happening to the networks and the prime time ratings for their half hour liberal talking points cast…oops “news”.
We have a long way to go but at least the strangle hold on information has been loosened. Now if we could only break up the brain washing of young people AKA schools & college to actually return to education rather than indoctrination.
For the record, Soap and his family gave up newpapers long ago however, I read more now than I ever did ’cause Michelle, LGF, Flip and others keep me informed. Then, I get to read comments as well. Some of which are informative and some that make me go, “WHA?”.
I still prefer to sit with a cup of coffee and read the paper. Especially the Sunday paper.
My rag of choice is the OC Register but I will read a few sections of the LA Times in a pinch. But you have to understand the left slant and take what you can out of it.
Paper: News from Yesterday
TV: News from Today
Internet: News NOW!
We don’t have the fine English tabloids available here!
Y’all just don’t know all the important things newspapers do for us.
They line bird cages, wrap fish, start campfires, and punish dogs all over this country.
Without newspapers, how else are we going to perform these vital jobs?
No paper, 4yr., don’t miss it.
My dog is house trained so no need for the paper.
Exactly Soap!
Right now I am reading religion of peace, WOrld War IV and Evangelical President are next up. I subscribe to National Review’s magazine. MM’s website, NRO, Jihad Watch, Frontpage magazine, foxnews, LGF, HotAir and the list goes on and on.
sausage, you get an “A” for effort…
I quit buying newspapers several years ago mostly because I couldn’t stand the thought of actually paying liberals to tell me what to think. I will pick one up and read it once in a while if it’s free just to see what those yo-yos are thinking.
And isn’t it murdered trees?
I live in Atlanta. ‘Nuff said?
How can you line a bird cage with a keyboard?
Or wrap a dead fish in a moniter?
We get the Desperate Scum, er, Desert Sun, local Palm Springs area paper delivered. Reason being local TV news is 90% weather and face it in Palm Springs why do you need a weather report? Its lame, look out the window. A person would be better served walking their turtle than watching the local news.
#34
Me too. The daily paper here is what led me to quit reading newspapers. The AJC and Cyththia Tucker make the NYT and Maureen Dowd seem moderate.
I use to read 3 newspapers a day. I cancelled all newspapers about 10 years ago. Reading them became a waste of time, I decided that if I wanted to read a comic book I would just go buy a comic book.
AJ gets a paper?
*Soap take his cookie back – LOL
Tre, you forgot swatting fly’s they never see a good lefty story coming.
lol soap…. to late.
We do subscribe to our local daily newspaper. I use it to keep up with local news; for national news, I come to the blogs, and Fox News is informative when they finally get tired of Britney, Paris, and Lindsay.
I subscribe to the New York Post, not my local paper. I’m addicted to reading it before I leave for work. On days that the delivery is late, I pace back and forth in impatient frustration. I could read it online, but it’s not convenient to my reading, umm, room.
My wife subscribes to the Wall Street Journal. She’s become more interesting to talk to since.
It’s been at least 15 years since I cancelled LAT’s Sunday delivery. Interesting sections were the Comics, Opinion, and occaisionally the Sunday magazine. Opinion articles lost my interest by shifting to left-more left rather than point-counterpoint.
With the advent of the web, blogging, and RSS I’d never go back – even if LAT provided content I found interesting.
I gave up on the local birdcage liner (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY) years ago. I still read their website, for local content, but avoid the opinion pages like the plague. Nothing but Marxist ranting as far as the eye can see.
We subscribe to the local paper, mainly because of the ads and the funnies. I get my news from you, Michelle!
Atlanta as well, not only no but “hell no!” They keep throwing their auto section in my drive every thursday morning and every thursday evening it hits the trash. These so called “environmentalists” sure waste a lot of paper.
Every time I walk into Fourbuck’s or Coffee Queen, I take the crossword puzzle from the public domain San Diego Union. Otherwise, there’s nothing worthwhile taking, let alone, subscribing to in that birdcage liner.
After a lifetime of reading the daily paper, I gave up on The Fort Worth Star-Telegram a few years ago-when I started using a computer.
The paper was too political/opinionated in the “news” stories,and ran too many pro-illegal sob stories.
I will admit to visiting their website when I want to read an obituary!
My news comes from the web and the radio.
I canceled my subscription to the Lexington Herald-Leader several years ago, when their slide into liberalism accelerated past the point where I could stand it. We do pick up the Sunday paper (for the funnies, coupons and local arts info). I also tend to pick up one around election-time. I need to know who they are supporting in the local small-time elections, so I know who not to vote for.
We still take the WSJ. It’s a luxury and something we’ll cut out if things get tight.
On the other hand, I at least glance at five newspapers online each day–usually more like eight. I might actually read four articles out of all that but I at least get an idea of what’s going on.
Quite often these days the stories that hit page one have already been thrashed out on a blog or online magazine I read.
How do I have the time? In our last move I took a page from Elvis and ditched our TV. Never watched it anyway. Haven’t missed it a bit.
I canceled mine to the Houston Comical over 5 years ago due to their war coverage, or lack there of. As a note I still receive a comp copy at least once a week, part of their drive to inflate the numbers
There’ll be a market for newspapers as long as some people like the feel of them in their hands. Besides, as of now it’s not convenient to bring a laptop into the bathroom.
subscribed to WSJ for years, but most of my real news comes from the web. More uses for the local rags; do wonders for cleaning windows, art projects, kitty litter and my favorite, wrapping fish and chips as opposed to the dead ones in Michelle’s picture.
Years ago I would check the obituaries in the newspaper every morning. If my name wasn’t in there, I’d get up. Then I’d read the funny comics and the serious letters to the editor. When those two sections traded adjectives, I quit subscribing.
We still take the Claremont Review of Books, too. But that’s monthly.
I pick up the Sunday paper for the coupons, sales circulars and to cover the table during art-time with my 4-yr-old son.
I get my ‘news’ from Drudge and Michelle.
Still get the local rag pretty much just for the comics, the local section, and Walter Williams in the Sunday Forums. Also get the WSJ delivered every day, because the airlines would rather buy that for us than have to give us free tickets for our ancient frequent flyer miles.
The only stuff I read regularly, however, is opinionjournal.com, michellemalkin.com, the Journal’s emailed Political Diary, and various tech blogs.
I really miss getting up early when the house is quiet and reading the paper over coffee. The Houston Comical has to be one of the most liberal rags in the nation and it is impossible to keep it off the yard even when you cancel it. They are reporting a “flat” trend for paid subscriptions. Don’t believe them. It is free and it is worth every penny of that. Too me it is yellow pre-recycled paper by the time I remove it.
flmom –
Really? You can use newspapers to clean windows? I didn’t know that.
I read the San Francisco Chronicle on BART going to work every day. I work for city government and I can keep track of the lunacy. I get the NYT on weekends for book review and theater. I also get the Contra Costa county paper at home as it covers local stuff where I live. And I spend WAAAAAAAY to much time on this site and about 40 others.
Now I only subscribe to The NY Sun. It is sad how the NY Times has imploded. Like with any institution, that took years of hard work and creativity and even love to build, it is sad when the foolishness and self indulgence of a later and lesser generation brings it down. This applies equally to universities and religious establishments.
Oh how the Mighty have fallen.
I live in Phoenix Arizona where we have the Arizona (Repugnant)Republic. As Michelle would say “hell no”!! They are about as left as left can go. My employer has the paper on site as a courtesy for our clients and right now they are writing hit pieces on Sheriff Joe Arpaio and our county attorney for their crackdown on illegals. Heard on the radio today that their circulation is also down for the 21st consecutive quarter. Pretty hard to do when you are in the 2nd fastest growing city in the U.S. All I can say is hahahhahaha. Good Riddance!!
No paper in probably 15 years. I purchase a paper for my parents to get the TV guide (not available online). I get my news from the web. Most video is available free online to watch so I do not have cable TV either. At least on the web you can pick and choose what you want to partake of.
Yes you can clean glass with newspaper (be careful). It does not leave dust or streaks.
Call me a holdout, but then again, most of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel goes unread. I’ll usually read just the sports, mainly because most of the Packer coverage is not available for free online. I also enjoy the Transportation section in the Sunday Chicago Tribune because the editor of that section is an unreconstructed motorhead.
I don’t pay for any newspapers, but the local liberal city paper gets dumped on my doorstep for free. Yes, they have to give it away.
Not having a newspaper keeps my house much more orderly. I also am reducing my carbon fooootprint and saaaaving treees. Chuckle.
Personally, I consume my news electronically. The only news papers in this household are received via US Mail and serve as useful fodder for starting fires. When we did have a daily paper delivered, it often went unread but did serve as a useful catcher of our pet parrot’s fecal depositions. Flo, the bird, seems to revel when we’d occasionally give her the New York Times as target material. She always kicked up her game, having the entire front page covered from top to bottom.
I know one thing for sure our paperboy better not try out for sports his aim sucks.
Several months ago canceled out local paper because it was so left it was revolting; canceled the WSJ after years of subscribing last week. Get USA Today for the Sports section only.
katieanne #69 USA Today? Anthoney Lewis of the Times did once say “Fish would jump out of it.” There is something fine about classic old school invective.
It is odd, the liberals complain that folks won’t support them on radio but listen to conservatives.
Maybe a conservative [or balanced] newspaper could reverse the trend. The down turn in circulation would be even worse if they didn’t give it away in schools, hotels and on stret corners.
Ignoring the content of the paper (easy enough to do), our local rag, The Flint Journal has done the following to annoy their customers. They spent 30 million on a new press facility. This would: “Bring state of the art printing to our readers”. They didn’t mention that the pages would be smaller, and the typeface would also be smaller. Really nice for older readers, eh? They also shrunk the TV guide, and went to a microscopic typeface. The guide has been VERY INACCURATE since then as well. Last Saturday, they announced that effective yesterday the price of the daily paper would increase from .50 to .75, and the Sunday paper from $1.50 to $2.00, due to “increased costs”. Also, they had planned on printing ad inserts for local stores and picking up some extra cash that way. Unfortunately, that didn’t work; they got NO printing jobs. Personally, I think they have a death wish, but that’s just me.
I haven’t subscribed to the San Diego Union-Tribune in years. The name of the paper alone should be enough explanation.
You’ll forgive me if I don’t place much credence in any of these circulation figures.
Essentially, the figures reflect something on short supply in the big media business…self-regulation. The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), primarily, operates on the honor system. The circulation figures are whatever the media outlet decides to present to the ABC. And, lets not forget the way things work:
1. Circulation figures dictate the advertising rates charged.
2. Inflated circulation figures allow inflated costs to advertise in that medium.
3. Rinse, wash…repeat.
Need I remind anyone how Newsday inflated by 40,000 daily copies, or how the Chicago Sun-Times added about 78,000 daily copies? They got nailed due to a lawsuit by the advertisers (not ABC’s crackerjack auditing).
Personally, these dark numbers showing, for the most part, reductions in circulation are likely exaggerations in their own right. Exaggerations to favor the outlet, that is. I’d bet it’s a lot worse than these numbers reflect.
To give you an idea just how bad it is…on any given day in Manhattan, there are a number of street corners down town where the NY Newsday and the NY Times are practically given away for free in the afternoon. Using the relaxed standards of the ABC in determination of circulation…that is considered a portion of their numbers for the auditing period. It used to be that discounts greater than 50% did not count towards the total. But, like everything else in the land of the Liberal….when things get tough…lower the bar.
The consensus is that the ABC is not a legitimate and dependable entity if facts are what you’re after. The true circulation numbers after throwing out the bulk sales to hotels/ airports/ etc., after the discounted give-aways from each afternoon, after counting each copy given to an employee of the outlet as a sale, and after cherry picking the days applied to the circulation figure (yeah, they can do that too)…are much lower and dismal than what we see here.
So, how did the LA Times add 5%. Easy, they cherry picked the days included in the audit figure to coincide with the huge fires out there.
Cheers,
IC
jw2
yes, newspaper and white vinegar, works great.
I received our local newspaper free for the month of October as a promotion. I don’t think I made it much past the funny pages, the crossword, and the sudoku. I get my news from Ms. Malkin.
Once I move to VA (next week, hopefully!), I’ll see if I can get the deal I got before, which was Wednesday (for the supermarket ads), Saturday (for the..uh…), and Sunday (for the coupons and hard crossword puzzle). That seemed to work out best.
flmom – Thanks for the tip, I’ll try that. Probably the best use I’ve ever encountered for newspapers.
I subscribe to the Boston Sunday Globe, mostly for the coupons. By wasting a couple bucks a week on a crappy paper, I’ve ended up saving over 500 dollars in groceries, and that’s having only subscribed since July. The rest of the paper is used for dogs to piddle on, as is fitting for the Globe.
No newspapers in this house in a long time. Also, we don’t watch the news on tv either; 55 minutes of gossip, sensationalism, junk news and ads. Best news is on the internet when you can read both sides and pick/choose what you want to read, without wading through a bunch of nothing. If I had to subscribe to a paper it wouldn’t be the Wash. Post. I don’t need to start my day with a lot of liberal nonsense.
Michelle, I still subscribe to the Los Angeles Times Thursday through Sunday home delivery for $16 per month. It keeps me informed of local events/news (museum/movie openings, sports/entertainment events, real estate/restaurant info) and informs me of liberal perspectives on the issues (especially illegal immigration).
I no longer listen to NPR or read The New Yorker, and I feel it’s important to listen to all sides of issues. Despite mostly disagreeing with them, Tim Rutten and Steve Lopez (like Alan Combs on Fox News) are usually somewhat intelligent voices for liberal viewpoints. And you, of course, are one of the most intelligent voices for conservative viewpoints. But for me the bottom line is that I’ve looked carefully in my Bible and I can’t find a single reference to conservativism or liberalism. It’s important for me to listen to all sides and then try to determine what’s true and good in God’s eyes. I’m as conservative as anyone, but I even listened to the left’s conviction that Bush and Cheney deliberately deceived the American public. After carefully checking it out, though, it’s clear that faulty intelligence was to blame for not finding much WMD, not sinister oil (or “military industrial complex”) profit motives, as the protestors in my community loudly proclaim nearly every week on street corners, at my post office, and at my Farmer’s Market.
Keep up the great work, Michelle! You’re a new media pioneer!
Sincerely,
Michael Eaton,
South Pasadena, California
P.S., I’m hoping that illegal immigration will become the number one issue for voters in 2008, because forty years of immigration lawlessness has made me discouraged and utterly fed up with our bloated and incompetent government. It’s time for radical change: comprehensive immigration enforcement, an end to birthright citizenship and judicial tyranny, and the tax code thrown in the trash where it belongs to be replaced with a flat, fair, consumption tax.
We still subscribe to the Sunday “BOregonian.” Our ritual: open the paper. Put ads in one pile, the rest of the paper in the other. Go through the ads, clip coupons. Continue on with our day without reading the drivel.
They are CONSTANTLY trying to give me free papers for the week. Obviously, this increases circulation numbers, but it just wastes space in my recycling bin.
We haven’t subscribed to a paper in about 7 years. I used to read them cover to cover, but around that time I finally realized that the news was slanted – something my husband was already aware of. Now we only look at them occasionally if we are traveling…
Sorry. $6 per month for LA Times Thursday through Sunday. Was $16 years ago.
Ha – and then only because they often give them away at gas stations..
I used to subscribe to the WSJ, the NYT, and a local paper. I haven’t subscribed to any paper for at least 15 years.
I still get the NY Daily News. The comics pages are too good, despite Doonesbury and Soup to Nuts. I don’t always agree with the main editorial, but I haven’t found them moonbatty. I ignore Richard Cohen and Dave Barry.
I need the NY Post for my fill of Mallard Fillmore.
I ignore Robert Novak.
The Washington Times! It’s a great newspaper. If I lived in any other metro area, I wouldn’t subscribe to a newspaper, though.
I’ve noticed a lot of conservatives in the Washington area have given up their Washington Post subscriptions.
We pick up the Sunday edition of the Minneapolis Red Star ..er Star-Tribune, almost every Sunday, just to look at the ad inserts and the color funnies. Last time they called to get us to subscribe, I asked to get just the ad inserts, but they would not do that.
I’ve been a daily subscriber to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for almost 20 years. I get it mostly for the metro news and sports, but my wife and I both enjoy the features.
For the most part, however, we ignore the national and international news stories in Section A because the content is almost always lacking in meaningful information and the bias overwhelming. But what do you expect from a paper that basically prints verbatum from the AP, NY Times, WaPo, and LA Times? The editorial page staff are stereotypical purveyors of the worst in Bush/Cheney/Halliburton Derangement Syndrome. It’s almost like they go out of their way to print the most intellectually insulting and ridiculously partisan garbage they can think of. We like to play “spot the rhetorical fallacy” on Sundays.
I subscribed to the Tampa Tribune last month for the first time in 8 years ONLY because my 77 year old mother came to live with my family. The paper is so desperate for circulation, my wife got a $3.99 a month rate plus a $25 gift card (that didn’t work!).
“The NYTimes’s daily circulation plunged 4.51% and Sunday circulation plunged 7.59%.”
heh, heh, heh…Every time one of their tv ads comes on, I grin thinking about the extra money they’re losing trying to convince people to buy their Pravda-esque garbage.
As much as I like the web and what it can do; there is something about actaully holding the paper in your hand. It’s much easier to work with — for now — and it is usually easier to read. Seems to have more gravitas … then I read it and it seems like a dirty grimey piece of cheap paper with little benefit.
I prefer holding cards, chips, and seeing people when I play poker. However I live less than 300 yards from a cardroom and have only been inside once in 5 years. That was to just look around, not play.
You know the day is coming where reading a magazine or newspaper is seen as a sign of rebellion.
yay!my first post to MM’s website!
I only get the Sunday papers nowadays,for the ads and the big crossword. I live in Tulsa, which has one of the most biased dailies in the World (little pun). Since the MSM is so big on “saving the earth” and “going Green” maybe they should ban the paper newspaper!
Read one every day — the one I helped write and edit — until April 2006, when I resigned in protest over my putative superiors’ refusal to run any of the Danish Muhammad cartoons with an op-ed piece I’d written on Comedy Central’s censorship of South Park’s two-part episode on the issue. (That was the East Valley Tribune of Mesa, Ariz.) Now my news comes largely from the Net, but I still buy the NY Times most days, especially Sunday.
Say what you will about the demise of newspapers; we’re going to miss them when they’re gone — the same way we miss sailing vessels and steam railroad engines.
I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper since I gave my parakeet to my parents 10 years ago.
Human Events
Yep, that’s it.
Only one.
Last subscription — c. 20 years ago, maybe more.
Subsequent to that, would occasionally buy one (Orange County Register) from the newsrack.
Same, after relocating to Las Vegas, c. 15 yrs ago — an occasional copy of the Review-Journal from the newsrack — but can’t remember the last time .. definitely more than 10 yrs ago.
Now, of course, they all have on line versions, so I am again a daily reader. But Michelle wanted to know about the dead-tree version(s).
Here’s a handy on line reference: http://www.newspaperlinks.com
–Ken
I live in Marin County, CA. The big local paper is the San Francisco Chronicle (gack!). There’s a smaller paper in Marin called the Marin Independent Journal. They’re both garbage. Not only have I not subscribed to either in over ten years, I haven’t bought a copy of the Chronicle in, oh, five or six years.
Last Mother’s Day, the Marin Independent Journal had a huge article about a mom and her lesbian daughter which, of course, sang the virtues of their completely “normal” relationship. I don’t think homosexuals should hide under rocks but it’s disgusting the way the IJ wanted to use a warm, family holiday to lecture the public, the hoi polloi, about how gr-e-e-e-at it is to be a lesbian. How many people really want to celebrate Mother’s Day by reading a gigantic article on lesbians? And they wonder why their subscriptions are falling off a cliff.
Okay, I have to admit I do subscribe to our local paper, which (very unfortunately) is the Arizona Repugnant. Its clearly liberal bias makes many articles unreadable, but there are all those coupons…and my addiction to Sunday morning coffee and newspaper in bed continues to be fed!