Anybody remember newspapers?

[RoxiePico]

It feels weird reading this thread, because we still have daily news printed and delivered to our house every single day. I only ever liked the comics and horoscope section of the newspapers, and the kids newspaper that came every Saturday.

 

[Ginny Potter]

I get them like once a week still

Of course i seen them at work

 

[ShawnFuzz]

This is funny reading this like it's some lost ancient thing. I still see newspapers, fliers, and all sorts of papers. It hasn't stopped.

You are right of course, and I believe I mentioned that in my original post they are still around. I think though, the true impact was how important newspapers were, because that was actually how people got their news. There was news on TV, but even then only for a short time, like maybe 30-60 minutes in the evening. Nothing was 24 hours a day or instant like now.

Its odd to really think that you had to wake up the next day, pick up a rolled up paper off of your front doorstep and read what happened the previous day. And even then it was up to the editor to decide what was important enough to publish on a limited amount of paper. Imagine how much information was missed or received too late too publish until another 24 hours?

Plus being a newspaper delivery person was a respectable job for teenagers who got up before everyone else to make their daily deliveries before school. When it came time to renew the subscription, the delivery person would come to ask if we wanted to continue, and my parents would also tip because he did such a great job.

I wanted to do that job at one point for spending money, but my parents made the right call. I cant wake up early to save my life

 

[Geoni]

Occasionally I get the local paper from the thing on the street you feed quarters into to grab one. Forget what those are called.

 

[lasagne_of_death]

I see them around and a good amount of old/er people still buy them, but personally I'm not interested in newspapers or magazines. The only thing I use magazines for is cutting out pictures to make collages for art, but even then I don't go out of my way to buy them. I don't see any problem with them continuing though, since they are the way that a fair amount of people still receive the news, and what if you got transported to a future time and because there's no newspapers you have no idea when you are?