I’m so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.
Like, read every sentence in every story of each day’s newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.
Dunno where you live but even old genZ would remember that.
My parents were still getting the local paper around the mid-2010s, so can confirm. Definitely not as common, but definitely still happens.
Just ordered the newspaper for my grandparents while I read the occassional entry in the e-paper.
I’m so old, I was long an adult before people started not reading the newspaper. I subscribed to the newspaper, and it was delivered to my house by a kid on a bicycle. I found my wife through a personal ad in a newspaper, a wife I’ve been divorced from for 16 years, now. I got all but my most recent job through want ads in the newspaper.
Y’all aren’t old for just remembering when other people read the newspaper. Y’all aren’t old at all.
Y’all aren’t old at all.
We are old, you are ancient! 😄
Passes mantle to Lichtmetzger You are the boomer now.
When I was in high school they still delivered newspapers to machines near bus stops. Sometimes I would drop a quarter in to get one so I had something to read on the bus. It was mostly for comics, sports, and current events. When I was done I would leave it on the bus or drop it off in the hallway at school.
Gone are those days.
in the 2000s i was reading it up until the first cellphone(smartphone) came into market.
I’m so old I still get the newspaper daily.
I’m young (mid 20s) but I’ve started reading my local newspaper. I’ve been trying to live a slower life and I’m cutting out social media. I even limit lemmy to 30 minutes a day.
I still have subscription for my home town paper, even when i havent lived there for ten years.
The news there are so innocent when compared to big world news. I dont want to only read how wars are going and how the climate change is accelerating. I mean fuck yeah there was strange coloured fox seen on the forest and fuck yeah at the local school fundraiser little Timmy sold record amount of cupcakes.
Used to remember reading the comic strips in the funday times.
As I got older I used to read the Hexham Courant to see who’d been arrested I used to go to school with
I started reading the Funnies when I was a kid, added sports, around 10, then the entertainment pages when I got old enough to go to the movies with friends around 13, then eventually started reading the boring stuff.
I’m so old I remember being young.
I had a paper route my man. It was decent money for a kid who could barely drive. A shitton of people cared a lot about their newspaper back then and would complain if it was wet or on the grass or wherever.
UK, my dad would go to the cornershop to buy The Mirror.
I was wondering what he was doing with all these mirrors.
Turns out The Mirror is a newspaper.
I’ve seriously considered getting a newspaper. I know I wouldn’t read it every day, but it would probably help ground me into my local community better and keep me a bit more sane.
We recently started getting the news paper because my daughter asked for it for a Christmas present. I personally thought that was weird, but we tried it out. After about a month or so she asked us to cancel it because the news was too depressing.
Did that as a kid. Every day.
I remember asking to borrow my parents’ newspaper so I could use my silly putty to make copies of pictures.
Also reading comics, and reusing the newspaper so I could make papier mâche (or other crafts) out of it. I learned to weave by using strips of newspaper to make a mat.
I would come home from school and read the paper.
Started with the comics. Gotta have that daily chuckle fix. And Dear Abby and the astrology stuff is right there.
Then the sports section.
And then a few headlines, maybe a little entertainment, a crossword if i was feeling that bored…
When i was an adult we had cable news you could consume with alcohol. Which was a different problem.
I remember when radios were called transistors.
I delivered newspapers for people to read (shit, slave wage job btw, even for a kid)
