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I'm curious how many of us actually get a newspaper.

I get the Baltimore Sun, and despite how zesty it's become, I'm still happy to pay for it and I read it most days. 

had a free 6mo trial of the la times shortly after i moved out to cali.  hardly ever read it though.  just used it to start fires every night.  when it was time for me to start paying for it, the weather was warm so i declined. 

unfortunately, because i used to read the paper all the time, but it's really becoming obsolete thanks to the internet, 24 hr news channels and cell phones with full web browsing capabilities. 

I actually read the thing almost every day with my morning coffee and smoke.  The real value I get out of it is purely local news which I would not otherwise seek out on the internet.  The rest of the news feels like it's a week old by the time I get it because I'm reading all kinds of news portals online.  Same with sports:  the national and international stuff (such as it is in a pitiful rag like the Sun) is useless to me, but I find myself reading the local high school and small college sports stuff, which actually tells you a fair amount about what's going on in your local community.

i read online, and when i go to my parents place.  But for the most part i just dont like paying the exorbitant rates that they charge for our local paper

i subscribe to the sunday post and times and buy the post everyday at the train station which is essentially a subscription

there is no better deal in the history of the world than a newspaper...its really astounding when you think about how much you get out of it for what it costs

i got the post for the last few years but canceled over the summer.  my commute isn't long enough for a whole newspaper and if i want to read the news, the free daily is perfect for getting the gist of everything.  but mostly i listen to podcasts these days.

get the inqy. it sucks.

The post is a little better than the zesty News Journal for DE.  I always read the daily news at work, but once i got a better job, my lunch hour disappeared. 

I used to get the Inky and DN.

I don't subscribe to the Houston Chronicle; it sucks.

I read the New York Times from front to back on Sunday.  I don't have time during the week, though.  I usually read the Inky, & A.C. Press online on a daily basis, though.  And of course I get all my political news from ATV.

I'm getting RSS feeds 24/7 on the topics I care about, so as cheap and informative as papers are, they are still more expensive, less informative, and less timely than what I get sent to me through the Internet. I will typically still skim through whatever paper someone leaves lying around at lunchtime looking for original stories, often the Wall Street Journal.

The two major Pittsburgh papers are pretty horrible. Basically condensed AP content and nationally syndicated opinion columns along with eight original pages of local Steelers coverage. The editorials (uniformly conservative in the Trib and uniformly liberal in the Post-Gazette) are uninformative and painfully predictable. Even the crossword is pretty dumbed down in those rags. The local news that exists originates with those two papers' websites though.

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Three: Morning Call (Allentown PA), Hunterdon County Democrat and Wall Street Journal