No more newspapers

[Aredeeem]

I’m such a dinosaur. I can still remember waiting for my Dad to get home from his job in Manhattan. Opening it up and pulling the paper out, anxious to read it. His briefcase still had the smell of the city on it. The subways, the ferries from Hoboken terminal. He would take me to work once a year during my summer vacation. It was like visiting the Emerald City. Anyway, that’s what I think of when it comes to newspapers. I don’t miss them..I miss everything about them.

 

[tnt_motorsports]

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/11/chat...bers-as-it-goes-digital-only-six-days-a-week/ Im gonna miss the newspaper, guess I can retire my scissors and scrapbook,lol


I hope that iPad lights my grill as good as the newspaper does... We haven't had a paper delivered in years. We use the sales adds so hopefully those keep coming.

Just my $0.02

 

[aquariuscsm]

But don’t you love the pop ups from the car dealerships ? (I just ask if she’s single and they vanish)

And have you noticed they’re always HOT!!

 

[PandaBear]

Same story here as with many others...

Our small city used to have two papers - morning and evening. Our family took the evening paper until it was bought out by the morning paper. Later the morning paper was bought out by a large conglomerate. It's actually still being published, but it's thin, thin, thin.

I can still remember newsprint on your fingers (and face if you scratched your nose), a paper box right underneath the mailbox (with either a written code for Sunday-only delivery / weekday or small stick-on reflectors with different colors for Sunday/weekday. And paper drives! We'd stack up papers in the garage for months so the local high school marching band (or sports team) could take them to the recyclers for money to purchase new uniforms. You'd have a parade of teenagers and parents come down the street in pickups and station wagons, honking and yelling, and load up the newspapers until the suspensions were bottoming out. Maybe now they could have computer / tablet drives

Skip the paper these days, they just have a website called GoFundMe, Patreon, etc.

These days most recyclers focus on recycling packaging instead of printing paper, so cardboard instead of newspaper.

 

[Leo99]

My father in law reads 3 or 4 papers everyday. Whenever I travel, I pick him up a local newspaper. I always find it interesting what makes the front page news in different localities.

 

[AutoMechanic]

I agree with other posters about what they report on nowadays. One thing that always makes me want a newspaper is the smell I love the smell for some reason lol . I can’t stand electronic newspaper and would never read one unless it’s to find like an obituary or something and heck you click on it then they want you to pay to even read one obituary or article.

 

[Dinoburner]

A strong press, regardless of how one feels they lean, is an important piece of keeping institutions, companies, government, and people accountable.

Take away traditional bodies, replace them with instant, pop up online, and non fact based "reporting" and wonder how and why people fall for so much disinformation.

When your local paper folds, and then you are shocked to find out what your local politicians are up to, you've got nobody to blame but yourself.

So so true.