does anyone still read their local paper?

Re: does anyone still read their local paper?

• D&J_052408

  February 2011

  I do.  I also wish more people would because my husband is in the newspaper business and it's a scary position to be in right now.  Dang internet. 

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• colenmike

  February 2011

  FYI to you and anyone who has cancelled their subscription.  You'll start to get a call from a Saint Charles Missouri soon.  Actually I haven't had a paper in almost a year I think but this telemarketing place works for all the papers in the U.S. and they're targeting folks who have cancelled and they'll call multiple times a day and won't leave messages.  I am on my last nerve with them and shouldn't have to call in to be removed because you can't do it with the person that calls.

  But I was going to just start buying at the store on Sundays for the coupons but then I'd have to go back home and go through them and go back out so I haven't done it yet.

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• kokomama

  February 2011

  colenmike:

  FYI to you and anyone who has cancelled their subscription.  You'll start to get a call from a Saint Charles Missouri soon.  Actually I haven't had a paper in almost a year I think but this telemarketing place works for all the papers in the U.S. and they're targeting folks who have cancelled and they'll call multiple times a day and won't leave messages.  I am on my last nerve with them and shouldn't have to call in to be removed because you can't do it with the person that calls.

  But I was going to just start buying at the store on Sundays for the coupons but then I'd have to go back home and go through them and go back out so I haven't done it yet.

  Ugh, really!?!  How annoying for you.  What are they trying to sell?

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• Temp67694062501186

  February 2011

  I buy the Sunday paper mainly for the coupons and the ads.  It's like a routine for me tho.  Go out, get the paper, maybe get a breakfast treat (starbucks coffee and a pastry?  my parents always got donuts on Sundays that we would eat while reading over the paper and I guess I got used to it) come home and read over the paper.

  I looked into getting the home delivery for Sunday only and it was also more expensive that way.  Sunday papers are $2.00 here, and I think each month for delivery was around $12, so yeah definitely more.

  I get most of my news online, too.  
  

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• colenmike

  February 2011

  koko trying to sell the subscription again.  I googled the number and tons of folks from all over the country were complaining of it and they would always say they're from your local paper and each person said they had cancelled their service so I guess they're targeting us.  So if you get the call you know why haha

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• buckeyethor

  February 2011

  We get the sunday only delivery. I read the ads and that is pretty much it. I feel like it is a waste a lot but I dunno, it is a habit. Sometimes I think we should go up and pick up our own but they alway seems so picked over. I have seen ppl steal the ads or whatever. so frustrating.

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• MadameD517

  February 2011

  My local newspaper doesn't really have any news in it, so no.

  I do have an on-line subscription to my home town paper though so that I can keep up with the happenings there. 
  

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• *city bride*

  February 2011

  I cancelled my local paper the other year after they did a smear campaign against a young woman who was raped and brutally murdered (they claimed she was a "slut" and used the internet for dating and actually said she DESERVED what happened to her.. turned out it was her step brother who did this to her. the paper never retracted it's statement or issued an apology. disgusting) I still get the general NY paper delivered during the week.
  

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