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Do you get a daily newspaper delivered to your home?
Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 4:33 PM on 10.21.14 |
->> This is an old "Polls" title from March 2, 2009. Five and a half years ago it was 47.28% Yes and 52.72% No. SO.....I was wondering if these numbers are still the same more than half a decade later. A simple yes or no will suffice, and I will get my solar calculator fired up in a week from today. Hopefully, with just three or two key strokes to key in, we can get a lot of responses.
Me first...Yes |
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Keith Simonian, Photographer
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Martinez | CA | USA | Posted: 4:56 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Yes. |
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Gene Boyars, Photographer
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Manalapan | NJ | United States | Posted: 4:59 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Yes, don't read that much of it but some one here likes the crossword puzzle.. |
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Ron Manfredi, Photographer
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Merrick (Long Island) | NY | | Posted: 5:16 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Another Yes here. |
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Arthur Spragg, Photographer
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San Angelo | TX | USA | Posted: 6:00 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Yes... waking up isn't right with out a good cup of coffee (or two) and the newspaper in my hands... and a little ink on my fingers. |
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Jim Colburn, Photographer
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Omaha | NE | USA | Posted: 7:10 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Three. The NYT, the FT and the local rag. |
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Mike Huffstatler, Photographer, Assistant
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Rancho Cucamonga | Ca | United States | Posted: 7:54 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Yes, but Sunday only. |
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Marty Price, Photographer
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Concord | NC | USA | Posted: 8:28 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> another yes here. I am an old time ink junkie, gotta get my ink...... |
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Michael Coons, Photographer
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Camarillo | CA | USA | Posted: 8:54 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Yes, but Sunday only. LA Times and VC Star. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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New England | | | Posted: 9:11 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> I purchase The Day almost daily at the gas station, and get the FT a few times a week. Neither is delivered. |
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Mark Peters, Photographer
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Highland | IL | USA | Posted: 9:18 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Sunday only. |
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Brian Westerholt, Photographer
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Kannapolis | NC | USA | Posted: 9:32 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Two - one is still 7 days a week, the other is 3 days a week |
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Max Waugh, Photographer
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Bothell | WA | USA | Posted: 10:54 PM on 10.21.14 |
| ->> Not for a few years now, though I find that my habits haven't changed much. My "reading the morning paper" routine now involves browsing the web on the iPad every morning to catch up on the news. |
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Jim Karczewski, Photographer, Assistant
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Hammond | IN | USA | Posted: 11:06 PM on 10.21.14 |
->> 3 of them..
2 are 7 days a week, the other is 3 days a week.
However with the pending sale of all the Sun-Times suburban papers that might change, depends on how the Chicago Trib handles the new papers. |
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Tod Gomes, Photographer, Assistant
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Pleasant Hill | CA | USA | Posted: 12:42 AM on 10.22.14 |
| ->> Yes, only because they just keep sending it to me even after my 20 week subscription has been up for a couple months now. |
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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 3:05 AM on 10.22.14 |
->> Yes but not my local paper. My local Gannett branded hard copy has more or less become "USA Today Light" (as the clerk as my coffee shop jokes) both because it went from broadsheet to roughly the size of an ESPN magazine, and also because many stories are now straight from USA Today.
To that effect I actually do subscribe to USA Today, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Each day I also spend about 1-2 hours reading Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Al Jezeera and China Daily. Each publication has different strengths but the one strength they all have is that they cover US news extremely well despite preconceived notions about their biases. Well, the exact same thing can be said about getting your news from a liberally or conservatively slanted news paper, or an agenda biased Network news site like CNN, FOX (puke-in-mouth.... and I'm republican), MSNBC... So if I'm going to get biased/slanted news, why not get an outsider's prospective. |
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Keith Lucas, Photographer
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Verona | VA | USA | Posted: 8:33 AM on 10.22.14 |
| ->> Yes...local Gannett paper |
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Stephen Mally, Photographer
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Cedar Rapids | IA | USA | Posted: 8:50 AM on 10.22.14 |
| ->> Yes |
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Ralph Mawyer, Photographer
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San Antonio | TX | United States | Posted: 9:49 AM on 10.22.14 |
| ->> Yes, local paper to house and NYT subscription electronically each morning. |
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Patrick Fallon, Photographer, Assistant
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Torrance | California | USA | Posted: 11:38 AM on 10.22.14 |
| ->> Sunday LATimes & paid online daily access |
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David A. Cantor, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 12:12 PM on 10.22.14 |
| ->> For reasons that escape me the local daily gets dumped in front of my mixed-use building daily, is carried into the lobby where its sits forlornly in its colored cellophane bag, ignored by all of the tenants until someone mercifully carries it to the recycle can. |
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Wesley R. Bush, Photographer
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Murfreesboro | TN | U.S. | Posted: 1:11 PM on 10.22.14 |
| ->> No. |
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G.M. Andrews, Photographer
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Mobile | AL | USA | Posted: 1:24 PM on 10.22.14 |
->> No. And it was a hard habit to break.
When the local daily went to three-times-a-week and laid me and my wife off after 20+ years as staffers, I stopped delivery.
That was two years ago. |
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Randy Rimland, Photographer
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Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 5:40 AM on 10.23.14 |
| ->> we used to for 40 years, stopped it last year because we were only reading Sunday |
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Dave Miller, Photographer
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Darlington | PA | | Posted: 9:40 AM on 10.23.14 |
| ->> Yes, tried think of something witty about reading the sports section, but nevermind.... |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 10:30 AM on 10.23.14 |
| ->> If you would like to be counted in this extremely informal and very unscientific poll, and wish to not post your response on this thread, please feel free to drop me your yes or no to me thru my member page. Thanks and let's keep 'em coming! |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor, Photographer
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 10:35 AM on 10.23.14 |
->> Yes.
I only read the comics. Seriously.
--Mark |
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Richard Uhlhorn, Photographer
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Chelan Falls | WA | USA | Posted: 11:03 AM on 10.23.14 |
->> No, but I live in a rural area with only a regional daily that doesn't offer much for the price anymore.
Read the NYTs on my iPad every morning over coffee. |
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Clark Brooks, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 11:13 AM on 10.23.14 |
| ->> Yes |
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Las Vegas | NV | USA | Posted: 11:59 AM on 10.23.14 |
| ->> Yes. But at $1/wk, if for no other reason (like most people my information comes from various web sources as well as NPR, which I also pay for) I have a cheap supply of charcoal chimney starter and window washing towels. |
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Dave Prelosky, Photographer
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Lower Burrell | Pa | US | Posted: 12:34 PM on 10.23.14 |
| ->> Yes, if only for the editorial page. Our local paper was published by one Richard Mellon Scaife - so far on the right as to make John Birch fans look tame - and after his passing the comedy hasn't slowed a bit. |
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Clint Austin, Photographer
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Duluth | MN | USA | Posted: 2:46 PM on 10.23.14 |
| ->> Yes. |
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Frank Niemeir, Photographer
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Woodstock | GA | usa | Posted: 4:00 PM on 10.23.14 |
| ->> Yes and no. Get the local weekly and local five-days-a-week papers, but dropped the daily last year. They weren't covering the area I live in anymore. Devour everything else online. |
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Dylan Slagle, Photographer
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Westminster | Md | USA | Posted: 10:14 AM on 10.24.14 |
| ->> Yes. Carroll County Times and The Washington Post seven days. |
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Doug Pizac, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | USA | Posted: 11:07 AM on 10.24.14 |
->> Not any more. We have two papers in SLC and I subscribed to the Tribune for about 16-17 years. Then they started the layoffs and cutting the size of the paper which meant a reduction in content too. Then they raised the cost of subscription where I would be paying more for less. It no longer became worth the money, especially when it and the competing Deseret News both put their content online for free and them some. And what is posted is done BEFORE it comes out in print. So by the time the paper hit by doorstep it was already old news as I already read it online.
My neighbors also feel the same. They get what they want gratis via the papers' websites too. The only time we and they buy a hard copy is the Thanksgiving edition for the Black Friday sales which don't appear online.
We do, however, pay to subscribe to the NY Times and Seattle online editions. |
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Steve Ueckert, Photographer
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Houston | TX | | Posted: 4:13 PM on 10.24.14 |
| ->> Local daily, online edition Monday through Saturday and actual newsprint on Sunday, paid subscription. |
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Al Diaz, Photographer
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Miami | Fl | USA | Posted: 5:25 PM on 10.24.14 |
| ->> There has been a newspaper delivered to my home since before I was even born. I'm now 56. |
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John H. Reid III, Photographer
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Gates Mills | OH | USA | Posted: 9:07 PM on 10.24.14 |
| ->> Not daily, as the local paper now only has home delivery on Wednesday, Friday , Saturday and Sunday. We do get online access to the daily paper with our subscription, which is different from the .com site. The online access is the same as the newsstand paper that is still published the days home delivery is not offered. |
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Michael Okoniewski, Photographer
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Syracuse | NY | USA | Posted: 8:59 AM on 10.26.14 |
| ->> No. Years ago I discovered all my comics were free online. After that, why bother? The industry gives it away for free so I, like millions of others, take advantage of it. |
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Daniel Berman, Photographer
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Seattle | WA | US | Posted: 6:14 PM on 10.26.14 |
| ->> Sunday NYTimes in print and online daily access. |
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Stanley Leary, Photographer
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Dan Powers, Photographer
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Appleton | WI | USA | Posted: 9:47 PM on 10.26.14 |
| ->> Yep |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 8:08 AM on 10.27.14 |
->> Stan...so that is a yes?
Today & tomorrow left to add your 2 cents worth! |
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Wesley R. Bush, Photographer
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Murfreesboro | TN | U.S. | Posted: 10:22 AM on 10.27.14 |
| ->> Are you asking if we receive a paper copy, or whether we subscribe at all? My local paper has an online-only option. |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 10:58 AM on 10.27.14 |
| ->> Wes, either way is fine, I will post stats for hard copy & e-paper. BTW, did you have frost this morning in TN? |
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Wesley R. Bush, Photographer
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Murfreesboro | TN | U.S. | Posted: 3:51 PM on 10.27.14 |
->> Well then I'm a yes if online counts. I don't receive delivery, but I do have my paper's app.
And no frost here. It's actually kind of warm. It's been real foggy though. I'll post a picture I took of my kids on the way to church yesterday to my member page when I get home. |
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Stanley Leary, Photographer
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| | | Posted: 7:02 PM on 10.27.14 |
| ->> I get the paper daily and have for as long as I can remember. |
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Michael L. Palmieri, Photographer
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Barnegat | NJ | USA | Posted: 11:25 AM on 10.28.14 |
->> Nope. Gannett has ruined the paper that I received daily, and delivered, as a kid. We still had Sunday-only delivery up until about a year ago but decided that wasn't worth it either.
This particular paper was amazing when I was younger. Not sure which company/family ran it but I couldn't wait to read the sports section on Sunday morning. It must have been 30 pages -- full of local sports, national, feature articles, stats, etc. All of the sections were like that; it was a fantastic periodical.
But, to be completely honest, I must admit that as a paperboy I hated those Sunday editions -- they weighed a ton! |
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Jack McCoy, Photographer
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Baldwin | NY | USA | Posted: 12:09 PM on 10.28.14 |
| ->> No delivery, just on-line since it's basically free with my cable/internet provider. |
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Scott A. Schneider, Photographer
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Minneapolis | MN | USA | Posted: 2:31 PM on 10.28.14 |
| ->> Minneapolis Star Tribune and New York Times; everyday for both. |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 2:42 PM on 10.28.14 |
->> Polling ends tonight when I get back from my regional soccer game. About 8pm EST
This has fun. |
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