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Something I thought had went by the times...
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Was in a grocery store Sunday and at the end of the checkout were newspapers.. People actually read these?.Check out girl said the Sunday edition ... was $5.99 Wow..
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I do a lot of reading in the full-service checkout lines. Never buy a paper or magazine, but usually get at least one article read before I have to get busy with the groceries. Some of those magazines are pretty pricey these days! A recent mag about Queen Elizabeth with lots of color pictures was marked 25 bucks! 😲
For most of my life I subscribed/ read two newspapers everyday . One was local to my town and the other was a statewide paper based out of our state capital. Both were sold to national conglomerates in the early 2000's. This started a rapid decline in content and quality. I no longer subscribe to either. They were/ are no longer worth the money. I get my news like most ,thru the internet .
We used to get the Glasgow Daily Times.
But Covid hit and Sports section was a big part of paper. and Local Eateries no longer took out ads. So it closed it doors and tried to go digital, that lasted only u a few months.
We get a Digital copy of a small County Paper on line free.
We get the Sunday paper from Bowling Green (30 miles away), just for sports and ads. Coupons make up for the cost.
There isnt enough paper in our local rag to start a good fire!
Our local is down to about 16 pages in two sections, and half of that is horoscopes, obits, and the TV schedule. There's only one actual local reporter still on staff, and he's been there for close to 35 years and never leaves the office. I'd cancel it except for the Sunday comics. Oh, and it's a morning paper but they got rid of all the delivery people and now mail the paper - so it doesn't arrive until late afternoon. There's a "weekend edition" that combines Sat and Sun - and if there's a Monday holiday, none then either.
So...the "news" I'll get tomorrow is about stuff that happened after about 6 pm Friday.
Dollar and a Quarter Tree only gets Sundays edition of the St. Louis paper and it sells out quick for the COUPONS only. Fact.
the small town I grew up in still has one but I think years and years ago the printing was moved to a bigger newspaper operation , I still see they have them at local stores and by supscription , we use to get one delivered we lived about 1/2 mile out of there "zone " but at tha time the delivery driver lived some what close and chose to add us. when he left so did our news paper
I still go on line and check th eheadlines and the obits . sad to say I know way more dead people then I do live ones any more 😁
as a kid a friend ( Ricky ) had a delivery route for it, as many kids did. I went with him a couple times just to kill time, there was at least one old lady ( most likely more ) he would say your payment is due, the old lady would say already, or I thought I paid he would flip out his route book and say no you still owe and collect again for the second or third time that month then brag about the extra dollar he made
I hope karma got even with him
A Fish-Fur &Game magazine is $5.99 nowadays.
Holy crap! I can remember when they were 50-55 cents.
The Roanoke Times was THE source of printed news in SW Virginia for years. Until they went of the left side of the bed.
Nowadays, you can tell where the liberals live because they're the only ones who still have a paper box beside their mail box.
My hometown local newspaper still prints daily editions. I quit the paper years ago and still accessed the stories and obits online. A couple years ago I got this flagged message while viewing obits there saying I must now pay for the privilege. Bastages!!😒
Flexable and absorbant it is a maultiple use item.
Sadly in this economy, the paper is probably worth that .................................... sigh ...........