I enjoyed reading the paper too. Sunday especially.
I hated the pile of them as we waited for recycling day.
As the industry declined (The Dallas Morning News began to resemble the erstwhile Beaumont Enterprise with a strong hint of heading toward the Port Arthur News) I canceled and thus threw my share of dirt on the grave.
We’ve since moved and now we get a local monthly paper delivered free of charge or desire but I do enjoy perusing it.
Yeah, all mine are weekly or twice a week.
The weekly Johnson City paper takes about 47 seconds to read and is good for lining the bottom of the recycling bin so the beercan dregs don’t make it a sticky mess.
I subscribe to the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, it is daily Tuesday through Saturday. It’s good for local news, sports, obituaries, classified ads, puzzles, comic strips. The delivery is really inconsistent, sometime they skip a day then deliver two the next or just never deliver it at all. Bui there is always the online edition too.
I too enjoy a physical paper; it’s too bad that all the big papers worth reading are now owned by evildoers.
There’s a local weekly that for some reason arrives in my mailbox most Wednesdays. It’s more or less the same as what everyone else is describing as their local, small town paper. There’s probably more coverage of the Broadview Six than you get in semi-rural Texas but otherwise they all seem simpatico.
For the first time in a long time I bought an IBD weekend paper at the SEVENeleven. I was in there buying Daniel a Slurpee and that thing was calling my name.
Now that I think about it, I achieved whatever level of Spanish that I have in no small part by assiduously reading print newspapers in Panama. And National Geographic in Spanish which was considerably more expensive but has lots more pictures.
I started my career in the newspaper industry albeit the ad sales side. Was a student ad sales rep for The Daily Texan at UT Austin and fell in love with the industry. I was always proud to be in the business because of the importance placed in a free society. Its’ demise is troubling.
I was a reporter/photographer/editor for about 12 years. When I was 22 I was interviewing senators and governors, going on drug raids, and doing all kinds of exciting shit … for $11,000 a year. The problem with newspapers was that the pay was so abysmal, there was no way to keep talented reporters.
You sure couldn’t raise a family on that pay. One time in Lufkin – it was during the '80s and the “welfare queen” stereotypes – I was assigned to write an article to show it’s actually pretty hard to qualify for welfare. I went to the office and applied, and I qualified for food stamps, even as a single white male! So that story got killed by the editors.
Still, after you’ve written a good article or taken some great photos, and you hear the warning bell ring from the pressroom and the building starts shaking as the press cranks up to spread your work … man that’s powerful.
I just finished a short book titled, Etna. It’s one of those books that is written from a dog’s perspective. It is both interesting and goofy. Etna is a “war dog” who is lost and looking for her home. The book is not a silly as A Dog’s Purpose but is much more depressing. I’m a dog guy so I was interested but I can’t really recommend it, unless that is your thing.