Ooops, I forgot to comment on this part of your reply:
"Heck, I would pay 50 cents/week just for the ads, myself. Then I wouldn't have to listen to my husband read me stories that I read on FR three days before!'
I basically scan the front page, sports page, and read the comics of our local fish wrap. My wife learned long ago not to try and read national or international news from it to me. She knows that we have it here days before it gets on our local rag.
Not to mention that we get a lot of news the MSM wouldn't print at gunpoint.