Do you have a digital newspaper subscription?

[y_p_w]

Haven't in a year. I had one for the San Francisco Chronicle and they kept on asking for just 99 cents a week in 4 week increments. But I didn't have autopay. After a while I gave up when I got some rather rude calls from their contractors about whether or not my payment was going to be made. It was something like "I have to eat" like I was responsible for her paycheck. And no it wasn't some overseas call center, but sounded like someone local.

I remember having a complimentary 6 month subscription to the Washington Post that came with an Amazon device. I have a login with the Washington Post, and it linked my accounts automatically when I logged in to the Amazon device with the same email address. I think I had one previously too.

 

[walterjay]

Yes...but I am cancelling it.

 

[Tom NJ]

Yes, I pay for my local paper, which I read online, and Barrons in print and online. I also read several news sites online for free, including BBC, Google news, and Yahoo business. The latter two I have to cut through a lot of click bait to find real news.

 

[vavavroom]

No, I don't subscribe to any digital newspaper. Useless for cleaning windshields and for stuffing wet boots. Can't even wrap a fish in it or roll it up and whack a fly with it.

 

[Gasbuggy]

I have WSJ and a county press

 

[nomas]

Yes. NYT, WP and WSJ.

Newspapers who employ journalists need to pay them and we should not expect to get all the news for free. Some of them do investigative reporting and they need to travel around while digging up facts.

Yes , I do expect , and actually do get my news for free . Subscriptions are not what keep these large publications afloat . It's advertising .

 

[Fitter30]

Wash post
Local no they only report on the one side of the political setting and it isn't ?

 

[Donald]

Yes , I do expect , and actually do get my news for free . Subscriptions are not what keep these large publications afloat . It's advertising .

It's both. Same as when the newspaper was printed. Many newspaper let's you see a few articles a month or be able to read the first paragraph of an article.

 

[ripcord]

No, I don't subscribe to any digital newspaper. Useless for cleaning windshields and for stuffing wet boots. Can't even wrap a fish in it or roll it up and whack a fly with it.

I do miss having news papers around for lighting the fire and such.

 

[vavavroom]

I do miss having news papers around for lighting the fire and such.

When inflammatory comments won't do, newsprint comes in handy. Also when TP is in short supply.

 

[CKN]

No, I don't pay for subscriptions. I have way more news content than I can ever consume via aggregated news feeds over RSS. It's like drinking from a firehose, frankly. If I ever find that I want to read something behind a paywall, I can usually wait a day and then go find it on an Internet archival site.

Limiting onesself to the mouthpieces of the major political parties like NYT, WaPo, and WSJ is just ensuring that most of what you see are biased talking points. Needless to say, my opinion of what passes for journalism today is not high.

Well at least one of those sources you mentioned have broken news stories that have been 100% accurate- it was later proven. But yea- read and watch sources that tell you want you want to see/ hear.

 

[vavavroom]

I enjoy doing the crossword puzzle in The Times (of London). I'm shooting for under 7 minutes. I'm an avid cruciverbalist.

 

[Sumboodie]

I do miss having news papers around for lighting the fire and such.

About the only time I'd read them was sitting by the wood stove in the basement waiting on the stove to get going.... at that was 25 yeas ago

 

[Lubener]

I would never consider a delivered hard copy or digital news paper subscription. I can easily find my local news online for nothing.

 

[John105]

No, and it's annoying when a buddy emails me a link to something, and I cannot read it because I don't have a subscription...

 

[97prizm]

It’s become almost impossible to find an actual printed copy of our statewide daily newspapers in my little town. The Lexington paper now only prints three days a week as they try to move their readers online. Do any of you have a digital newspaper subscription? Do you like it?

I prefer print for newspapers and magazines because physically flipping pages and browsing is much easier than doing it digitally, at least to me. Backpacker transitioned to online-only a couple of years ago and I cancelled my subscription soon after.

Does anyone still pay to read the news?

The issue that I've been seeing is that less and less of the online articles are free. Granted years ago the online version only had a small portion of the print paper posted. My local online is laid out fairly well.

 

[PWMDMD]

WSJ with a student discount ($3.99/mo). Along the same lines though, as a student, I can't stand the idea of renting online textbooks and I still buy physical textbooks, which sell at a huge premium now that the digital versions are available, because I need print on paper. I guess in the world of education I'm an old dog...

 

[ZZman]

I did. Not now

 

[RitcheyRch]

No.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

I do miss having news papers around for lighting the fire and such.

Subscriptions are very cheap. It's usually $5 a year around Detroit.
I have four credit cards and the ones I use for these subscriptions are the ones that expire within a year.
That way I get to move from the Detroit News to the Detroit Free Press to the Macomb Daily every year and maintain a cheap-cheap rate for online reading of the entire paper.

Otherwise, the subscription rate will jump at the end of the 12 months from $5 to around $30.... or more.