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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
I disagree. Smaller newspapers aren't beholden to mega-advertisers to drum up buzz and sell copies. They talk about things that are of immediate concern to the readership, whether it's a "big" news day or not. There's plenty of fluff, but that's because fluff is what's happening. In a 8-inch thick newspaper, 4 inches of the thickness is advertisements, 2 inches is the editorial board attempting to indoctrinate the reader into its personal political viewpoint (invert the previous 2 numbers for the Washington Post), 1 inch is sports, and the last inch is divided between actual news and information about which Hollywood debutantes are catfighting that week.
Out of 100 pages, maybe 16 contain anything you might actually need to know. If you're an investor, add 8 for the stock report.
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Now you're just arguing for the sake of arguing and also making stuff up. I've read both small town newspapers (almost certainly not the same ones you have) and large city newspapers. They are like night and day. Small town papers don't even come close. They just regurgitate a small number of AP stories, and even truncate most of those stories. Having said that, if you live in a town, you should get the local paper, just so you know what is going on in that town.