What do you think of newspapers these days? Here's what I think.

[bmasters9]

TBPH (to be perfectly honest), it is quite a shame when there is more in the L.A. Times than there is in the Greenville News (which is exactly how I feel these days). I don't know what it is, but the News hasn't been very interesting these days. When I was a boy, the News was a pretty-good-sized paper, especially on Sundays. Nowadays, the daily edition has roughly 30 pages to it (give-or-take a few), except for Fridays, when it's a little bigger (about 40-something pages). The Sunday one, if my math is correct, has around 100-120 pages.

The L.A. Times, on the other hand, in the edition of 9/25 (a Friday), which my brother got for me from his recent trip to Vegas, had 94 pages to it, including a mammoth-sized main-news section (32 pages) and an equally-sized entertainment section (which the Times calls its "Calendar" section), with about 12 pages of movie ads, and several reviews of movies, theater, and television, plus comics and TV listings. All of that (including business, sports, editorials and classifieds) is part of (IMHO) one of the best-designed papers in America, at least in its print version. Liberally-slanted though the Times might be, it is also, at least to me, one of the best papers in America, period (and the news design in L.A. helps a lot, I might add).

All that aside, I find these days that there is more to be found in big-city papers (at least the ones that I've seen, from L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Boston, and even Louisville, KY) than there is in the Greenville News.

[Zoneboy]

I don't find this surprising at all. Be grateful that you still have a print edition to read, Some papers have dropped their print editions in favor of online publication.

[bmasters9]

I don't find this surprising at all. Be grateful that you still have a print edition to read, Some papers have dropped their print editions in favor of online publication.

You're absolutely right. The Greenville News is not, I will clarify, all bad, but I pine for the days when it was a whole lot bigger than it is today. When it was only a quarter, I got a whole lot more out of it, because there was a much bigger page count. It only cost $1 on Sundays too.

[profferers]

newspapes are the old geration, but i prefer them over online papers. It s different

[MickeyMac]

I still occasionally read the newspaper, mostly to look at the want adds.

[Crimson and Clover]

I only buy the newspaper on sundays for the coupons.

[Chocoholic]

I only buy the newspaper on sundays for the coupons.
Same here. We used to subscribe to the Boston Globe, but cancelled that a few months ago. I really don't miss reading it.

[Janice]

Useful only for lining bird cages. The majority of papers are so deep in the tank for the DNC, that it's no surprise that most of them are going the way of the dinosaur.

[Sterling Holobyte]

I don't read them anymore. I used to get the Sunday paper but quit that also.
You can't trust "journalists" anymore. Mainstream Journalism is dead.

[Schmoopie]

Until St. Patrick's Day of this year, Seattle had two newspapers; the Post Intelligencer and the Seattle Times. Sadly both were in bad shape, but the Seattle Times (IMO the better of the two) won out. I've noticed that since the PI's demise the Times has gotten a lot thinner. It's also gotten more expensive. I only buy it on occasion. I'm planning on buying a copy on Oct 30th because the movie section will be in Friday's paper and my hubby and I are going to the movies on Halloween! I bought a copy of the last issue of the PI and put it with my copy of the long defunct Dallas Times Harald which folded back in the 90's.

I don't subscribe to the paper, but I have both the PI and the Times on my Google homepage, so I try to read them at least once a day. Not everything, but I like how the online versions are laid out and I can find what I need quickly.

However, it will be sad if the Times folds as well. To me there's nothing like reading Snoopy in the REAL newspaper as opposed to online!

Andrea

[bmasters9]

What about "news design"? That's what really attracts me to the big-city papers: the layout and design of them (masthead, section flags, etc.)

[Tweety]

Our local newspaper is not too bad, we subscribe to an online edition that's an exact replica of the paper (as opposed to just an online news site). It's very inexpensive, and we don't have a bunch of papers to recycle every week.

I get a couple of other newspapers on Sunday, but that's the only day we get a physical paper. I live in a small town, but on Sundays, I get the papers for a couple of "big cities", one to our North, the other to the South of us.

On those occasions when we travel, I usually make it a point to pick up a Sunday paper wherever we are. I like looking at different editorial sections in different cities.

I like getting and supporting our local paper... they do a nice job with it... the national and world news is, of course, primarily feeds from the AP, but it does a pretty good job on local stuff, which I like. And they do a nice job covering local school sports as well.


The other paper I subscribe to (online edition only) is the Wall Street Journal.
I don't subscribe to the print edition.


I still enjoy looking at the Sunday papers while watching the football games. There's something "old-fashioned" about it that I like.

[Schmoopie]

I still enjoy looking at the Sunday papers while watching the football games. There's something "old-fashioned" about it that I like.

Great post and I love what you said, but it's really sad to see newspapers being described as "old fashioned"!!!! Sad, but true these days.

[MickeyMac]

newspapes are the old geration, but i prefer them over online papers. It s different



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[Tweety]

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