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LisaM

(27,762 posts)
3. The demise of the newspaper, overall, is sad.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 07:27 PM
Aug 2019

We always subscribed to the paper - we subscribed to two papers before the Seattle PI (which was the better in-town paper) folded.

We stopped getting the newspaper when we moved to an apartment, because the apartment building doesn't have anywhere for it to be delivered. They had to leave it outside, it often got stolen, and the delivery itself became very spotty. Now, we buy a paper NYT once a week, which I relish going through and reading in hard copy. Where it differs for me - reading a print version - is that I encounter stories I'd probably never read if I was online, because I'd be unlikely to click on the links.

So part of the loss is that we're less well informed in general, and the other part is that we're probably less well rounded because we just ignore a large percentage of the online paper. With a print version, I read almost everything. Online, not so much.

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