General Chat

We have one of the local papers delivered Monday through Saturday.

There are in fact two local papers, both print Monday to Friday, then one prints on Saturday and the other on Sunday ...... we don't get the one that publishes M-F and Sunday because it is more of a tabloid.

I have a year by year subscription ................ and the paper is delivered by about 5 or 5:30am by an adult driving in a car. We seem to have done away with the paper boy/girl ......... delivering papers is now "sold" as being a means of getting a second income or for seniors to augment their pension. A car is a must ................. distances can be very great over here.


Canada is unlike the UK in that we don't have any truly national paper, so the local paper for me is the Vancouver Sun (the other paper is The Province). The US is similar.

Toronto has the Globe and Mail and the National Post, both of which claim to be "national" ....... in fact they focus on Toronto and Ontario, with small supplements for other regions.


If travelling, we always try to buy a paper every day.



I also have a news page as my internet home page, and catch up on news items on there throughout the day ........ as well as usually having a news station playing on the radio by my desk.


Husband describes me a a news junky!



sylvia

I was born in the 1950's and read the news on line. Have to admit to buying the local weekly newspaper though. Having said that, I read a local "blog" on line and there is more "real" news on there, with no political bias.

Can't be doing with the "dailys"..... not interested with "Katie & Peter" or the "Beckhams" etc.

17 year old Grandson is a paper boy, out in all weathers never misses, other two did rounds as well when younger. Sundays they have so much to carry that he has to go back to the shop halfway through the round to re-stock.

My Oh loves the Telegraph for the sports pages particularly.
It isn't a trashy paper,but oh,how it makes my arms ache,and all the rubbish that comes with it...well,we must have the biggest recycle bag in the neighbourhood.In fact the collectors come to the door for it as it is too heavy for me to carry out.....what a waste.I do like the crossword though and the sudoku.
Brenda x

I stopped buying a newspaper everyday as a cost cutting exercise in the mid 1970's.
As a single parent working full time, I found that I was often too busy to read all the news anyway.

Just didn't get back into the habit of buying them again when I sorted out my finances.
However, I used to insist to my son that we watch the national and local news at least once a day. ( from when he was eight onwards).

He now, at 35 buys newspapers. Both dailies and weeklies. Often more than one a day, and more than one Sunday paper.

As a teenager I had a paper-round, a way to earn some spending money 12/6 a week.
I don't seem to see any paper girls or boys around anymore.

I remember all the extra uses for newspapers too. Still miss them when I have a clear out and want to wrap stuff for the charity shop.

Had to smile at that, Elizabethofallseasons, regarding hospital appointments. I hate the self-check in thing at our doctors because there is always a worry in my mind that the computers won't link up and that my appointment won't come up on the screen. (Mind you, I don't find that electronic bleep very relaxing, either . . .)

how well I remember newspaper cut in squares - tied with string and hanging on a nail in the outside toilet!!! happy days!!! using a large sheet of newspaper to "draw" the coal fire up the chimney

Use it when you do some painting to cover the carpet - so many uses

and I just love cryptic crosswords and word games

We have the Radio Times because it is a good read, and the local. Neighbour gives us the next towns local when he has finished with it, so we keep up with the news from Monmouth, Hereford and Abergavenny. Used to do the crosswords while the adverts were on, but we now have Sky+, so can fast forward the adverts!

I'm pre war vintage and I buy two newspapers every day

We have a paper every day except sunday,1930s is our era, so we still love to read and I love the crosswords, we also have our local paper, J says to see if we are in the obituaries....lol.....


Jean x

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.

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

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

What will they line their rabbit hutch with?

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.

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.

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

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

Hi, Lady Cutie. Helen.

Its definitely an age thing !!! LOL

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