Anyone buy a newspaper anymore ??

Nope, unless there is a major headline which is very seldom for my taste. The paper used to be thick in large part due to local merchants of which there are many less of and then the internet to advertise via. The economics are out of whack to expect to buy an area paper for 35, 40, or 50 cents and have the paper make enough money to survive. I am not old but old enough to remember buying the weekly paper for 25 cents per edition and thinking that was steep.

I stopped reading them about 5 years ago...i was addicted to news and i think it was making me a less happy guy
I was addicted to the NY Post, NY Times and The Daily News EVERY day!
I also subscribed to The Economist, The Atlantic and a few other weekly news mags
I dont really even watch the News on TV anymore...mostly just for weather and scores, traffic sometimes...i'd really rather not know what all of the lunatics are doing anymore

Yes, I buy a local newspaper, mostly for the crossword puzzles and the comics. But I also scan the national and local news, bad as it is.

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I'm not sure of this being the case everywhere, but in the later years, the late 90s, when my husband and I worked at our local newspaper, the company merged with about four other newspapers around our state. The paper was then printed in another city. Today's news became several days old as a result.
In answer to your question though, No. we no longer subscribe. My husband did subscribe to our paper on the internet for a few years, but he no longer bothers.
I watch local news and world news on TV. I especially like the PBS News Hour each night.

I'll sometimes get the FT (Financial Times) if I'm travelling or commuting... Otherwise, I don't bother as I read enough news at work from the wire services mostly AP, Reuters and such...

I canceled my subscription in 2009 because it leaned too far left. I have NOT missed it. I hope they go out of business!



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I try to buy any time I have the change... We can't let newspapers die - we'd have nothing but 8-second TV clips of trivial and gossip -- things not important to anyone, except those who want to make money from the chaos, even though half probably don't believe in what they say - it's just financially beneficial, or a step to further their career.

I do, I enjoy reading the paper, and enjoy the puzzles, too!