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I got a buddy who actually reads the newspaper. He commutes to work on the train, so usually he picks up a paper from the newsstand or picks somebody else's paper and reads it.

Got me thinking about buying my own newspaper subscription. I usually get my news from the interwebs but it's not like I'm reading all of cnn.com... anyway it's cool to read on paper instead of on the computer. I feel like I should be accomplishing something when I'm on the computer, I can't just kick back and read about fuckin' Bosnia or some shit.

Do you read the news? If so, what's your favorite distribution flavor? Are you one of the old people who watches 24hr news networks? Do you avoid local news because it's too depressing? Do they even have newspaper distro on the Kindle?

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I have a few people online who read the news pretty thoroughly and report everything they read online, so I really don't have much of a need to read the news. What I don't get from them, I get when I StumbleUpon at work and end up at <random news site>.

Newspapers are pretty much dying out, which is a sad state of affairs, since they do have their usefullness. However, most are just making the transition to digital, putting all content on their websites. For example, Portland has "The Oregonian" which has had its readership drop dramatically lately. It has started putting a lot of its content on oregonlive.com. I don't think they'll stop delivering the paper, but they might cut back on how much they deliver.

One thing that I do miss about newspapers is the coupons. Hell yeah, coupons.

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I tend to only interest myself in political news most of the time, so I don't much care for the papers. There is one show on the CBC News Network I watch almost every weekday called Power & Politics which satiates my hunger quite a bit. The other News program I do watch quite often is The New Hour on PBS.

Whenever I'm waiting somewhere for an extended period of time (say a garage or a cafe) I enjoy sifting through whatever is on hand, and that is usually the local paper. The only other time I will read a paper is when I take the metro and I forgot to bring a book. They have these crap ass free papers at the entrance that can make the ride go somewhat faster. I wouldn't call these informative by a long shot though, as you rarely have more than two or three paragraphs on any given story, no matter the level of complexity.

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I'm a sucker for Sunday papers. Unfortunately, I am not willing to pay as much as the Boston Globe wants for that kind of subscription. So I'll mooch when I can, but I don't get to very often.

I get most of my news in an audible fashion via NPR, PBS and the BBC. I don't do the 24 hour news....thing. Most commercial television and radio just drives me right up the wall. I can't handle watching CNN; every 2 minutes there's a ridiculous break for them to advertise some ridiculous prescription drug for some dire ailment that you're supposed to ask your doctor about, and then WE'RE BACK with more hyped-up news about nothing that actually matters, by the way, here is some celebrity news that you should really give a shit about...

...I realize I've gone off the deep end a little bit in this regard.

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I'm a bit of a news junkie, a necessary taste to acquire when you major in journalism. TV news has become mostly unwatchable, since it's either partisan (Fox News, MSNBC) or inept (CNN, local news). Print news is out of date as soon as it's printed, plus you have to pay for it, so that's out. I like NPR, but I'm not in the car all that often to listen to them.

Just about all my news comes from the internet. Sitting at work, I visit the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun multiple times during the day, and CNN as well.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I read my local newspaper. They have a nice website and there is lots of news posted on there, but I find the paper version so much better and cooler. Its the small local papers that will survive the switch to a more internet/computer based news world.

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Oh, I forgot to mention the obvious once again. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Now there's a news team I can get behind.

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I read the national newspaper. The local newspaper contains much too many pulp stories about local rape or affairs that the content is somewhat obscure. I don't read every day because of my schedule, so most of the time I have to content myself with the headline and other news on the first page. But I don't read much from the paper; I skip economy and sports section and overall digests only the main news.

As for electronic media, I rarely have time for TV, so I have my input mostly from the Internet.

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The Metro is a free newspaper that's distributed at the train stations. I read that if I'm bored. It has some pretty horrible writing though, so sometimes I don't!

Also at work if I'm bored I'll look at headlines on google news.

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I was given a gift of a three-year subscription to The New York Times about a year or so ago. I've greatly appreciated it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I don't buy any newspapers. When I was having my fling with the printed media word I'd pick up the Guardian every now and then but asides from anything else they have a website, so why waste the paper?

Part of the reason I decided not to hook up my TV to a digibox/aerial was so I wasn't shitstormed with a flood of self-fulfilling news horror stories. So I'm one of the old people who doesn't watch the 24 hour news network.

As for local news. Well. The only useful thing in there is the classifieds; everything else is a "will they-won't they" pull-push of horrible buildings they're thinking of wasting our money on or how the despicable junkie whores who live in "depraved" areas are being rigorously shown discrimination by the police. I live an a twatty middle-class town. Hooray.

Excuse me if I'm being ignorant, the Metro Radez mentioned? Does that relate in any way to the British Metro? Free'un spread liberally over spare seats on the train.

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I check out huffingtonpost and politico here and there. There are some local tv programs that are great and very informative for political stuff I dig, along with Daily Show and Colbert.

I like the newspaper, but you have to keep up with it, which obviously can be difficult. You HAVE to learn how to skim, because those motherfuckers, and I'm not excluding internet journalists, will tell you the same thing 10 times in one article.

There IS I believe a network of free newsweeklies around the country that are liberal based media but cover local issues VERY expertly.

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

It will direct you to garbage as well, but check out the directory and see what is available in your area. I high recommend these papers.

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GFF Net Radio is my primary source for news. We cover all the important issues of today.

More seriously though, I stay relatively uninformed about current events. I watch the Daily Show, Colbert, and occasionally flip by CNN and the local news when I'm bored. I used to browse CNN.com sometimes at school, but that was mostly just to kill time between classes. I usually end up just looking up specific stories after hearing about them from other people.

Television news tends to irritate me, so I don't bother. CNN can't even deliver a full story anymore; insisting that I have to go look at their Twitter feed if I want the rest of it. People will be talking about any major news, so between word of mouth and Colbert I keep up with vital current events that I should care about.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I read through the newspaper on occasion. I find that knowing what is going on is important. Especially because I am moving to a big city and need to know about road closings and where the crime is happening so I can avoid it.

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I mostly watch the local news (usually for at least two hours a day), along with reading some stuff online. I've never really been big on newspapers, though I did read them back in high school when we could get them for free (though sadly, most of the kids at my school would just take the sports section and throw away the rest of the paper). Nowadays I'll only read them if I want more in-depth information on a local story.

And even though I don't like most of the national news broadcasts or 24 hour news networks, I do watch Nightline every night (they do more in-depth stories on a broad range of topics though rather than just focusing on current events, though). I'll only watch CNN and the like if there's some ongoing breaking news that I want to keep track of or during national elections.

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