The end of newspapers, end of an era

I find it sad that daily newspapers are slowly dying off one by one. The pure joy of a daily newspaper or the thick Saturday edition full of special features and comics is hard to beat. Alas...the internet (great as it is) is bringing about the end of a wonderful era. Pity. And I am sorry, but IMHO reading a newspaper on a tablet just doesn't come close. And furthermore how do you wrap fish guts or pot plants with a tablet? Sheer lunacy...

Does anyone else out there share my love of newspapers and sadness at their demise?

 

I lament their passing as well, but there is no denying that the morning newspaper is chock-full of news most of us have already heard about.

 

I share your pain! The local newspaper reduced to a three day a week schedule. It's really more of a joke now. The reduction in printing actually led to an increase for subscription prices. They've lost most of their readers.

Perhaps I'm old school, but I agree with Rusty that reading a newspaper on a tablet just isn't the same. But oh well - not sure there's much we can do about it!

 

I loved the comics page when I was a kid, but I have to admit I haven't read a real newspaper in probably 15 years. I get all my news online.

 

I gave up on newspapers when The Denver Post bought The Rocky Mountain News and phased out the RMN after a time. I always reached for RMN because of their tabloid size format. I find the broadsheet format of newspapers cumbersome.

 

Funny, that's what I miss the most...I had the subway-fold down to a science.

 

I can think of nothing more enjoyable than a Saturday Edition, a pot of fresh coffee and a rainy weekend morning.

 

I do...in fact, I'd like to subscribe sometime soon to USA Today. I hope THAT one is still going strong.

 

As I recall, the Sunday edition was the deluxe edition of the RMN. What paper are you reading that the Saturday edition is the thick one?

 

They have been superseded by that miracle we all carry - the cell phone. Buggy whip makers felt this pain a century ago. Like the home telephone and the travel map, soon to become "an obscurity sitting on an anachronism"

 

That is "news" to me(pardon the pun). During the my summer trips to Rocky Mtn. Nat'l Park, both papers were sold at the YMCA. I liked the RMN better, for some reason. Same reason as you, now that I recall.

 

Hrmmm... I swear that I remember that DP bought RMN, but a web search is not confirming my recollection.

Further evidence that the memory is the second thing to go.

 

I could see it coming, too bad much advertising a
Not much news.. corporate greed before any real benefit for people. The TV is next, too many commercial in a hour. You heard it here first fokes.

Denny Shootsalot

 

I wish the Boston Globe would buy the Boston Herald, although in saying that, I think the Globe is getting almost as cynical as the Herald now.

 

Well, John Logie Baird, thanx for inventing the thing and letting us all enjoy it while it lasted, before the greed set in.

 

It's happening. With broadband internet access many folks are dropping cable or satellite TV.

 

One gripe I have about TV commercials is that many are cut off so the next one has time to be shown in full. And I won't bring up the nuisance of some being repeated after they conclude. (Well, I just did bring that up, didn't I??)

 

This is me, for the last four years. Mostly because of the cost of cable subscriptions.

 

Same here.

 

That's correct. The Post then killed the RMN as unprofitable in 2009. I liked it because it was tabloid printed and easy to spread on a table.