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I used to subscribe to the DMN, Denton RC, and the local paper. Dropped them all several years back.

The bias in the DNM was too much to take, Denton RC was seldom current with content, and the local paper was all news about high school sports.

I stopped daily delivery of the DMN 4 or 5 years ago. Just get Wed and Sunday. Tip the paper person $20 at Xmas and they deliver holidays also. Lot time I don't even bother to read it. Wife likes the Supermaket ads on Wed.

I dropped my DMN subscription several years ago because everything in the paper was pointing me to their website. So the paper became a middleman. Didn't need a middleman.

I do subscribe to the "Briefings" edition that comes Wednedsay through Saturday. Really just for the store ads. Well, it's supposed to come Wednesday through Saturday. If I get two out of the four I call it a good week.

But I still have my CueCat, just in case.

Yes.
I like to feel the paper in my hand vs computer.
Some local info is only in the print version.

When I lived in Denton, I got disgusted with their paper about 15 years ago and stopped it. Too many wire service stories inside, and of course it was really biased. I noticed that in the last 5 years, many days the thing doesn't even have enough weight for the poor carrier to get it over the sidewalk into the yard.

Living in Wise County, I take their little paper that comes out twice a week. Although I can consume the thing in a couple of minutes, it is worth it because it is mostly local stuff.

I subscribe to the online version of 2 local papers. I'm involved in local government so I need too keep in touch with local issues. I used to enjoy the DMN until they started cutting most of the sections that interested me.

Jami wrote:I subscribe to the online version of 2 local papers. I'm involved in local government so I need too keep in touch with local issues. I used to enjoy the DMN until they started cutting most of the sections that interested me.

How long before you enact legislation to shoot squirrels onsite?

Sangersteve wrote:

Jami wrote:I subscribe to the online version of 2 local papers. I'm involved in local government so I need too keep in touch with local issues. I used to enjoy the DMN until they started cutting most of the sections that interested me.

How long before you enact legislation to shoot squirrels onsite?

I think it's open season on squirrels but.... if they are suspected of being rabid....no harm, no foul. That is already in the books.

We subscribe to our weekly community paper. It's actually pretty decent.

Dropped the Star Telegram recently. It's pretty bad since the Gannett takeover. I will miss Ed Wallace, though.

What's a newspaper?

Still have daily delivery of the DMN for 3 reasons.
I like to read the paper
newspaper is used to start charcoal 3- 4 times a week
birds cage needs lining


and I still have a landline and still don't have a cellphone

John in Plano wrote:Still have daily delivery of the DMN for 3 reasons.
I like to read the paper
newspaper is used to start charcoal 3- 4 times a week
birds cage needs lining


and I still have a landline and still don't have a cellphone

Golly, you're old, John.

We have a land line too. Need 2 lines for business purposes. I use my cell phone maybe 3 times a month. Mostly it sits on my desk on the charger. Doesn't work in the house anyway. Radiant barrier and metal roof.

Back when I raised canaries I bought end rolls from the newspaper. There was still a lot of paper on the rolls and no newsprint, and they were cheap - cheaper than a newspaper subscription.

We haven't gotten a physical newspaper for many years.

The Rockwall County News was a GREAT newspaper. I became friends with the owner/editor mainly because the man was a walking constitutional expert. The paper reflected that. He died two years ago. His son is a minister and all the constitutional articles, debates, etc. disappeared. When my subscription ran out last year, I let it go. Heath has a free paper delivered once a week. It's just "social" and is OK. I do need to subscribe to a local paper and it'll probably be the Rockwall Herald Banner. I dropped DMN years ago because I'd call and tell them the date to stop the paper and then resume deliver. We'd get home from a trip and our neighbor would bring a big box with the papers. He knew it was stupid to let those papers accumulate. BTW, we still have a land line. We also have cell phones but I don't give those numbers out. I pay $25 a month for ALL calls within the US and no time limit on calls. I'm so glad I fought this battle with my husband and won. I wanted it first because of the elderly aunts, my father, etc. Was very glad that I have it when my brother had the strokes. He can't use a cell phone anymore. I got him an office type phone and he can push button one and call his girlfriend. I'm number 2 and my sister is number 3. Verizon has a wonderful program for the disabled. His monthly bill is $29 a month, that includes all calls within the US and no time limits.

have not had a newspaper subscription in over 10 years.

The Morning News has been on double secret probation at my house since they bought out the Times Herald.

Have been taking the DMN 7 days a week since 1963. The section I read first has changed over the years. Today a quick glance at the obits is my first look, at 70 I find more and more names I know. Letters to the editor catch my eye, but the Sports page of the DMN IS the best in the state, IMHO. I miss too much when I go online to read it. So I will stay with the daily home paper till my name shows up in that first section.

And... A few years ago, after many raised in the cost I called to complain and told them I would probably stop as the 35.00+ a month was getting too steep for me and my fixed income. They put me on hold, came back with a adjusted price of $14.00 and change... Much better price.I think being a senior had somethibg to do with the reduced rate.

We get the startlegram, or as we call it, the daily leaflet.

We quit taking the local BCS paper, the "Beagle" because they diluted their local high school sports coverage, which at the time, was important to us.

Most of the rest of the paper is devoted to things a&m; which is of no interest to me...

BigTex wrote:The Morning News has been on double secret probation at my house since they bought out the Times Herald.

You must have been a Skip Bayless fan.

There were a lot of things I liked about the Times Herald. For one thing I thought it was easier to read.

And Skip had his time as a columnist worth reading until he decided his method would be to find the popular opinion on some issue and then write the opposite.