I don’t have a birdcage tht needs lining so I have no use for printed newspapers.
I’m surprised anyone still subscribes to them.
I have not subscribed to a dead tree newspaper since right around the dawn of this millennium.
I am often accosted by a salesperson hanging out in my local supermarket trying to get me to subscribe. I will shake my head and say in the loudest possible voice “Too Libera!”
Couldn’t tell you the last time I picked up a newspaper. Over 20 years, at least. Magazines aren’t worth it, either. Even the ones that are supposed to be about cooking and decorating manage to hit you over the head with all the leftwing crap.
I read the WSJ cover to cover for a good 15 years. When I taught an introductory finance course, over half of my students subscribed at the student rate. Then one day, one of their columnists said lots of good things about Bill Ayres and his wife Bernardine Dorhn and I no longer recommended my students subscribe and I let my subscription lapse. I have not read it sense.
I have read Investors Business Daily on occasion and it seems to be a good paper.
The Epoch Times is the best newspaper out there.
Subscribe to the local paper here just to keep track of what is going on here in our local community. A while back, it added the in-paper version of USA Today for national news. That lasted less than a year when subscriber outrage got rid of that. Not wasting money on papers from the northeast.
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I gave up on most of them quite some time ago. “In the know people” would read the NYT and I never really saw why. The wall street urinal outlived its usrfulness when things went online. I see people take it for some reason and you see stacks of them neatly folded on the corner of the desk or bureau and not read.
Magazines? High Plains Journal and thinking of giving that one up since it becomes more chickified each week. So many magazines think they have to make a social commentary instead of just information on the trade they represent. NO thanks to those.
We go to a store for our papers Sunday edition only for the Jumbo and the TV Guide. Why my wife needs that paper I’ll never know.
The internet killed print media just as sure as cell phones killed landlines.
Got Kilinger's when my granddaughter was having a fundraiser for her charter school. It has some good advice which helps me fine-tune the portfolio I keep with Schwab.
Fast Money has some interesting stuff in it as well, $10 per year. I like to keep current on financial trends. It is now more for the curiosity than investment purposes. Whereas I used to keep nearly 20% of retirement funds in growth stocks, now it is only about 5%. As I actually near retirement, I find that I prefer more boring stuff like Kiplinger's recommendations.
I agree with you that Forbes has gotten tired. Inc. is better and, again, only $10 per year.
But there is only so much reading I can do on the john, which is the main place I read print magazines these days.
Just make sure to steer clear of blogs.
They can do you no good.
The big secret is this is how the MSM makes $$$ and stays afloat.
Political ads from both parties.
If they can get a fight going, they are forced to pour Millions into their pocket on attack ads.
The MSM is really a High Priced Hooker
I buy an occasional Houston Chronicle for the sole purpose of starting my charcoals for my Weber Grill.
I didn’t leave the WSJ and National Review in the late 80’s early 90’s, they left me.
I subscribe to NO publication, even my favorite baseball team’s leading newspaper for $1 because I will not support their hatred for my country.
The best part is that article I wanted to read becomes “free” in a few days so Im sure that known leftwing paper couldnt get people to buy in for a buck..
I did this 15 years ago. I also have entirely sworn off TV news. Not even ostensibly “conservative” sites like FOX.
As you say, papers are a dying media, and like all dying formats and ideologies, they actually become more concentrated, orthodox, and partisan as they decline - the bunker mentality.
But why should you eliminate TV news entirely?
TV news suffers from the same relative decline of influence, and growth in inherent bias - but TV is far worse. Time is money for them. Even an extremely important story will get no more than 3 minutes of reporting, and most TV news segments are given 30-45 seconds. How many real facts, nuance or historical background can be given to you in 30 seconds? Nothing. Add to that that TV media is controlled by an oligopoly of corrupt, deep state, political corporations, and it makes TV news pure garbage.
The internet has allowed new, incredible information formats to grow. There are tens of thousands of news, opinion, and investigative sites. With a simple search, you can find 10,000 word essays on a topic, listen to podcasts where experts speak on one issue for several hours, or you can even listen to the people involved speak on the topic themselves.
With this amount of direct information available, why would ANYONE want the over-processed, condensed, biased, dumbed-down intermediation of TV news and those who control it??
No papers, no magazines... Used to get Two newspapers and ~ 12 magazines (between weekly and monthlies) ... Only read vintage History Books in paper form nowadays...
What’s a newspaper?
As I don’t keep a bird or currently need to wrap fish
It’s all right here on line. I could get the big liberal newspaper on line but why? I get my news from FR. There are links to leftist and conservative newspapers here.