I’m so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.
Like, read every sentence in every story of each day’s newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.
Dunno where you live but even old genZ would remember that.
My parents were still getting the local paper around the mid-2010s, so can confirm. Definitely not as common, but definitely still happens.
Just ordered the newspaper for my grandparents while I read the occassional entry in the e-paper.
I’ve seriously considered getting a newspaper. I know I wouldn’t read it every day, but it would probably help ground me into my local community better and keep me a bit more sane.
We recently started getting the news paper because my daughter asked for it for a Christmas present. I personally thought that was weird, but we tried it out. After about a month or so she asked us to cancel it because the news was too depressing.
I get my county’s rural, local newspaper. The stories are all relevant to my personal experience and typically quite well written. Local politics, goings on and such. It’s nice to have a little piece of life in the 80s back.
You are lucky tbh. So many “local” newspapers are owned by giant corporations. Here in Canada we even have a boatload that are owned by those same American corporations. I helps push narratives among people who are more likely to be isolated or disenfranchised and it works really well.
Our “Der Sonntag” is owned by Badische Zeitung which is owned by Poppen & Ortmann, a company in Freiburg. No US owner.
I tried a few years ago but couldn’t get over the absurd amount of advertising and dumb bullshit so I canceled my subscription. I would love to spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading the paper like an old-timey person but the paper is at least 90% garbage. The 10% that isn’t garbage is poorly edited and often has typos. It felt like I was being insulted every time I opened it up.
This right here. I remember when finding an error in the paper was like finding a four-leaf clover, now it’s more like finding an article without an error is that rare!
The occasional ETAOIN SHRDLU :)
My mom worked for a small paper as a linotype operator around the late 60s to early 70s. :)
It was 50% garbage in the 90s and quickly spiraled out of control as the internet grew in popularity.
The adverts in online news media are wayyyyy worse, though.
I almost never see any of them between my DNS filtering and ublock.
I’m so old I still get the newspaper daily.
I’m so old I remember reading the ingredients on the shampoo bottle because my brother took the bathroom joke book with him after pooping.
I’m so old I remember grabbing The Onion from the free dispenser outside my apartment building.
I’m so old I get a PSA test annually and need to schedule a colonoscopy
I do regret not ordering the matching embroidered “Face” and “Ass” towels from an ad in The Onion when I had a chance.
I thought you meant an actual onion and wondered who puts onions in a dispenser like they were gumballs.
So he could tie one to his belt, as was the style at the time.
You couldn’t get white onions because of the war, so they only had those big yellow ones.
I’m young (mid 20s) but I’ve started reading my local newspaper. I’ve been trying to live a slower life and I’m cutting out social media. I even limit lemmy to 30 minutes a day.
I still have subscription for my home town paper, even when i havent lived there for ten years.
The news there are so innocent when compared to big world news. I dont want to only read how wars are going and how the climate change is accelerating. I mean fuck yeah there was strange coloured fox seen on the forest and fuck yeah at the local school fundraiser little Timmy sold record amount of cupcakes.
When I was in high school they still delivered newspapers to machines near bus stops. Sometimes I would drop a quarter in to get one so I had something to read on the bus. It was mostly for comics, sports, and current events. When I was done I would leave it on the bus or drop it off in the hallway at school.
Gone are those days.
in the 2000s i was reading it up until the first cellphone(smartphone) came into market.
Used to remember reading the comic strips in the funday times.
As I got older I used to read the Hexham Courant to see who’d been arrested I used to go to school with
Did that as a kid. Every day.
Me, getting the monthly issue of The Onion (America’s finest news source, btw): hello
Brosef, I remember when I used to read the newspaper. The $1.25 to get the Sunday paper at the 7-11 because ain’t no way I would scrounge and spend 5 quarters in the machine. That’s for laundry money!
I had a paper route my man. It was decent money for a kid who could barely drive. A shitton of people cared a lot about their newspaper back then and would complain if it was wet or on the grass or wherever.
UK, my dad would go to the cornershop to buy The Mirror.
I was wondering what he was doing with all these mirrors.
Turns out The Mirror is a newspaper.
I’m so old, I remember using newspaper to wipe in the outhouse. Also Sears catalogue. Worst toilet paper ever. It didn’t clean anything, just moved stuff around.
You don’t take the Sears catalogue into the outhouse for the paper, you take it for the lingerie section. If you need a book of good wiping paper you take the Farmers Almanac
