General Chat

I have just read a piece that suggests that my generation (1940s) will be the last one to buy newspapers. Do you think that is true?

I do read news on line but I find it much more to concentrate on reading things on the screen, I much prefer to relax to read a newspaper. The other inference was that, because people are not buying papers but reading on line, newspapers will be charging for us to access their papers on line.

not really Ann
i was born in the 50s and i still buy newspapers

I tend to listen to the news on the radio - to and from work etc.

I haven't read a newspaper for ages ... I'd rather read a good book. At least with a book I'm clear on whether it's fiction or non-fiction!

Jill

Ann,
Hubby & I only ever buy one newspaper and that's on a Saturday for the TV magazine.

All daily news we read on line,think hubby reads everyone !!

While I skip through all the front page stories !

we are in our 60's........sad that ..LOL

Well my daughter (48 today) and her husband buy newspapers as does my son who is 42. as the news I see on TV, hear on the radio is a duplicate of that in newspapers one is no more fact or fiction than the other I assume!! But newspapers have much more than just news, especially local papers, what about the crossword etc,

Hi Ann,
Hi all,
I was born in the 50's and still buy a national and local paper everyday.

Hi Ann,
Like Marilyn we only have a saturday paper
and thats for the tv.mag .
lol and again like Marilyn wer'e in our 60s
Hazelx

I have two daily newspapers, each day in the week, and a local on Thursday. On Saturday I have four newspapers, and two on Sunday. I am not saying I read them all,with the exception of the local to make sure I am not in the Obituary's LOL, but I do like my crosswords. Now that the gardening season has done, I like to settled down with the crosswords, particularly when the weather is like it was over last weekend. Helps to keep the brain active, and even my 87yr old Dad does the crossword in his paper to keep his brain alive.
Julia in Derbyshire

Everyday Monday to Saturday i buy
the Daily Mirror the Daily Mail and the Middlesbrough Gazette


and on a Sunday the
News of the World the People and the Sunday Mirror

i was born in 60s and i buy papers
im so nosey gotta know whats appening

son born in 90s reads papers,
if he gets his hands on one he likes reading more factual stuff
too inteligant for me them papers,
i like ones with picture in

Hi, Lady Cutie. Helen.

Its definitely an age thing !!! LOL

Not Quite the same thing, Ann, but a while back I bought online a download, which a few years earlier was available as a paperback.
now, this download is ok, but it is NOT possible to actually print off any of the content.
I felt a bit miffed over this because if I needed to study it, say in the armchair, as a hard copy,in print, I cant!!
Bob

I do buy & read newspapers I was born in 1950s
but my children ages between 31 & 39 never buy newspapers but always read mine when they come to vist
never thought of it before but yes it could be what age we are

I only buy a paper on a Saturday, and I have to say that is mainly for crossword, weekly TV guide, etc. rather than 'news'. I despise most of the trash which passes as 'newspapers' these days. I do watch TV and current affairs programmes, and I also buy 'The Week' which is a digest of the week's events in a concise format.

Hello Ann, I haven't bought a newspaper for years. I can read news online (BBC or Sky), listen to it on the radio and sometimes watch the news on television. I don't have the time or inclination to read the broadsheets and refuse to buy the tabloids because of their obsession with celebrities and the quality of journalism you get in them. Last time I looked at a broadsheet, the journalism wasn't much better.

At the moment, I think the newpapers have too much power and influence and I'd be delighted to see their demise.

What will they line their rabbit hutch with?

Hi Ann,
My daughter is only 15 and buys 2 newspapers a day and on sundays she loves to read whatever sundays are left on the shelve ~costs me a small fortune.

x

Dear Ann in Glos

Hello

I like holding the newspaper and reading it.

I think the use of computers has gone overboard and a lot of the time,
the technology does not work!

Like for getting a hospital appointments, etc.

I have collected newspaper articles for 25 years.

I can't imagine life without newspapers.

Take care
Best wishes
xx

Actually I was going to mention that, about newspaper articles kept in scrap books and used for research. I suppose we will all be expected to look on line for things like that.

Uggers in a way I agree with you about the amount of news space that is given over to celebrities, but the TV news is almost as bad. And I suppose that is what actually sells newspapers. I suppose I have always read anything and everything and I wouldn't want to have to carry my lap top everywhere with me to have something to read.