Generational reversal

Undertoad • Oct 12, 2016 8:55 pm
Pew: old people get their news by TV; young people prefer to READ it

Younger adults more likely than their elders to prefer reading news

...online of course; only 10% of the youngsters claim to prefer to read their news via newspaper, than online. (Oh, those Amish.)
elSicomoro • Oct 12, 2016 9:12 pm
Every now and then, I enjoy actually holding a paper in my hand. I grew up reading one, so I still get nostalgic for it.
glatt • Oct 12, 2016 10:14 pm
Paper newspapers give me more information than digital does. If you haven't read a newspaper in a while, try it. You see stories you wouldn't otherwise.
lumberjim • Oct 13, 2016 1:16 am
With news, less is more.
Gravdigr • Oct 13, 2016 2:45 pm
I bought a USA Today the other day for the first time in a looong time.

Two fucking bucks.

Newspapers ought to cost a nickel.

[size=1]I might be getting old. I'll be yelling at the kids to get off my lawn before ya know it...:crone:[/size]
tw • Oct 13, 2016 7:48 pm
Gravdigr;971104 wrote:
Newspapers ought to cost a nickel.

What was called a nickel back then is called dollars today.
lumberjim • Oct 13, 2016 7:57 pm
I nickel is $5. Nobody seems to sell them anymore though.
Gravdigr • Oct 14, 2016 2:25 pm
lumberjim;971143 wrote:
I nickel is $5. Nobody seems to sell them anymore though.


:D
Sundae • Oct 17, 2016 7:00 am
I read newspapers in the library all the time.
As I don't have a TV showing 24 hour news, it doesn't seem old to me.
BUT.
They are unweildy and make your fingers very dirty. I love the editorials and the in-depth reporting as opposed to sound-bites, but they are inconvenient even to me, who has all the time in the world left at her disposal.

I'll miss them if they go though. I nearly wrote fold there.
Griff • Oct 18, 2016 7:15 am
I keep thinking I need to sort out the news better, but it is really hard on my mood which impacts real-life.
classicman • Oct 18, 2016 1:19 pm
I'm with you Griff - I'm going dark on the newsfront. I can't take it anymore.
tw • Oct 19, 2016 9:30 pm
Best was to ignore all political nonsense before the Super Bowl. None of that stuff in Democratic and Republican parties had any relevance then. All have been long forgotten today because it was all irrelevant. Remember that in 3½ years.
classicman • Oct 20, 2016 11:05 am
I remember that you are irrelevant.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 20, 2016 11:43 am
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Clodfobble • Oct 20, 2016 1:28 pm
I like that.
tw • Oct 20, 2016 1:51 pm
classicman;971607 wrote:
I remember that you are irrelevant.

He's quoting his hero The Donald again.
classicman • Oct 20, 2016 4:17 pm
... and an idiot.
tw • Oct 20, 2016 5:56 pm
classicman;971651 wrote:
... and an idiot.
OK, Donald.
classicman • Oct 21, 2016 9:21 am
OK, Tommy.