Newspapers

[JHDK]

I enjoyed reading the paper when I lived with my dad for those couple of years at the retirement place.

For the past few years I've been telling Pam how I want to get the paper delivered because I think it would be cool and no one does that anymore and it would make me happy to go get the paper in the morning and read it with a coffee or whatever.

So that's what I finally did yesterday. Apparently it's incredibly cheap because nobody in the world gets home delivery of a newspaper anymore except for 91-year-old men who died in 2019. It was a hundred bucks for 13 weeks including tax and everything for 7-Day a week delivery with the e-newspaper edition which is useless because the whole reason I'm doing this is to get the actual newspaper.

Well today I'm supposed to get my first paper, the Sun Sentinel.

I went with the Sentinel over the Miami Herald because that's the one my dad always read.

I remember enjoying the front page and the local section and I'm looking forward to doing the same again now.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Welcome to the 1920s.

 

[sadchild]

Don't forget your pipe and slippers!

 

[HecticArt]

Always start with the obituaries.
If you're not listed, move on to the funnies.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I know of people who get either the Boston Globe or NY Times. I thought they were fairly pricey, because they don't have a big base of subscribers.

There's definitely something nice about getting the Sunday paper, with the comics, and magazine, and op eds, and real estate listings, and sales circulars.

We receive The Weekly Sentinel in our mailbox every Friday, which is an area paper. It's the kind of thing you'd get if you came here on vacation. It also comes in handy as a backdrop for painting projects.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Always start with the obituaries.

Mrs. Scotch still does this. It goes back to her days working in the loan collections department.

 

[JHDK]

Bad news guys. The paper never got delivered today. I called and they were going to have somebody come and deliver it late but that didn't happen. So now it's just going to get credited to the end of the 13 weeks. They were going to deliver both tomorrow but I don't really care about the Sunday paper. Whatever. I don't want yesterday's paper delivered tomorrow. I'll just take the credit at the end of my 13 weeks. Anyway, they showed me how to sign up for the e-paper so I read part of the online paper like some stupid idiot instead.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get the real paper.

 

[Channel98]

There's a song for that. By the way, I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times. I also have access to the digital edition of the newspaper – but I never look at it. I like a real newspaper, printed with real ink on real paper.

 

[HecticArt]

Maybe the neighbor stole it.

 

[Wolf]

My newspaper is reading articles on the web and social media.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Maybe the neighbor stole it.

He has neighbors?

 

[Channel98]

The oldest United States newspaper still being publshed is the Hartford Courant, which began in 1764 as the Connecticut Courant. The state's name is an anglicized spelling of the Mohegan word Quonoktacut (or Quonecktacut or Quinnehtukqut), meaning "long river" or "river with water driven in waves by tides" – but why is the second "c" not pronounced? I wonder if the Courant ever did a story on that.

The Hartford Courant: The Oldest US Newspaper in Continuous Publication - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

On October 29, 1764, New Haven printer Thomas Green began publishing The Hartford Courant (then known as The Connecticut Courant) in Hartford, Connecticut.

connecticuthistory.org

 

[kingchuck69]

When I was a kid in the 1990s, I read both The Detroit News and Free Press - which had a merged paper Sundays - and my hometown paper, the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

Being a Detroiter by heart, I loved reading the entertainment section and seeing how much variety the Motor City had. Lots of movie theaters and lots of concerts everywhere. Traverse City? We were lucky to get one good rock concert per year and we didn't get a cinema with stadium seating until 2015.

Anyhow, when I moved to Grand Rapids in 2002, I stopped reading the paper altogether. However, my mother moved to GR in 2018 with her parrot. So on occasion, if I'm at the store on Sunday, I snatch a Sunday Free Press.

(BTW, many years ago, the News was owned by Gannett while the Freep was owned by Knight-Ridder. In 2006, K-R was sold to McClatchy, who sold the Freep to Gannett, who in turn sold the News to Digital First Media. After the buyout, the News decided to eliminate Sunday papers, leaving the Freep as the sole Sunday paper in Detroit.)

I purchased her a Sunday Free Press a few weeks ago and the paper was so thin that if one drop of water hit it, it would evaporate. The entertainment section lacked any movie listings and the classified section - which once took up half the paper - was hardly existent.

 

[Channel98]

When I was a child – last century – the Sunday Los Angeles Times had an eight-page comics section. Each page had two or three strips. The comic section is now just four pages and the strips are printed much smaller than they used to be. Two of the pages have seven strips. Most are printed horizontally but a few are printed vertically so more strips can be crammed onto the page.

One thing hasn't changed since 1950. Even though Charles Schulz died February 12, 2000, Peanuts continues to appear on the front page of the Sunday Los Angeles Times comics section. Good grief!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I had a paper into the 90s. But in the end I wound up just reading the funnies and doing the puzzles. I reduced to Saturday only then I just cancelled.

 

[Aaron]

I grew up looking through the New Orleans Times Picayune on Sunday mornings. I liked the sports section, the comics, and the entertainment magazine insert, forgot if it was Parade or something different. It’s been a long time without reading a newspaper

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

For about a year or so in the late 1980s I subscribed to the Sunday Toronto Sun. The big thing about the Sun is they had a very scantily clad girl on page 3 (the whole page) called the Sunshine Girl. When they added more clothes on the girl, I cancelled as the rest of the paper was really not that good.

 

[Channel98]

Parade magazine debuted in 1941 and at its peak was a supplement to more than 700 Sunday newspapers nationwide, including the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune and Washington Post. Its final print edition was November 13, 2022. Parade then became an online magazine – but it lasted only 13 months. Arena Media Brands, a New York media and technology company, maintains the Parade website but it has no connection to the original magazine.

https://parade.com/

This is for IRBS:

Sunshine Girl - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[sadchild]

When I moved into my house, with its wood stove, I subscribed to the Concord Monitor to have newspaper to start fires with. I didn't renew. Later, being short on newspapers, I subscribed to the Union Leader (Manchester).

Mysteriously, the same day the Union Leader basket was installed on my mailbox pole, the Concord Monitor one was unceremoniously ripped off of it, leaving only a metal bracket.

I let that subscription run out. A while later, I resubscribed to the Concord Monitor.

Mysteriously, the same day the Concord Monitor basket was reinstalled on my mailbox pole, the Union Leader one was unceremoniously ripped off of it, leaving only a metal bracket.

I haven't been subscribed for years now. There are enough free papers around to handle the chore.

 

[HecticArt]

So that’s what newspaper wars are all about.