View Poll Results: Do you have one or more paid news subsciptions?
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I have a paid subscription to a local newspaper/website.
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24.59% |
I have a paid subscription to a statewide news source.
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3.28% |
I have a paid subscription to a national news source.
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32.24% |
I do not pay for any news subscriptions.
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Poll: Who pays for their news?
11-22-2020, 11:45 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,974
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Poll: Who pays for their news?
The thread about crap writing got me wondering how many forum members pay to support a news source. I spent over 30 years working in daily newspaper journalism, and I see the industry as on the verge of death. COVID-19 probably knocked 25% out of an already shrinking revenue stream. A small-city daily paper in my area recently laid off its managing editor; she had worked there for 41 years.
DW and I have paid subscriptions to two local newspapers, a regional (statewide) paper and a national news source. I consider it money well spent. How about you?
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11-22-2020, 11:47 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,612
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If you make this a poll, you may get a better response.
Yes, I do pay for news sources (printed and electronic).
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11-22-2020, 11:48 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,974
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gotadimple
If you make this a poll, you may get a better response.
Yes, I do pay for news sources (printed and electronic).
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Working on it ... done!
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11-22-2020, 11:56 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,731
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We don't pay for any printed news media as the "news" in them are already old news.
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11-22-2020, 11:59 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 40,714
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We subscribe to online versions of print media for local, national and international news and current affairs.
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11-22-2020, 12:00 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 2,791
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I couldn’t vote for more than one but while I voted for paying for my local newspaper website, I also pay for a subscription to a major city paper’s electronic version. The local rag is pretty poor, in both senses of the word, but I feel it’s important to keep them going.
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11-22-2020, 12:01 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,974
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aja8888
We don't pay for any printed news media as the "news" in them are already old news.
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One of my local papers is a weekly, so its news is generally days old, but nobody else is covering my school board and the police blotter. My school district gets the biggest piece of my tax dollar.
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11-22-2020, 12:01 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 23,038
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Not a poll option, but I subscribe to the electronic versions of both my local paper, the Connecticut Post, and the New York Times.
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11-22-2020, 12:02 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,974
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GalaxyBoy
I couldn’t vote for more than one but while I voted for paying for my local newspaper website, I also pay for a subscription to a major city paper’s electronic version. The local rag is pretty poor, in both senses of the word, but I feel it’s important to keep them going.
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Oops, sorry. I'm new to this poll business.
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11-22-2020, 12:06 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,974
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Not a poll option, but I subscribe to the electronic versions of both my local paper, the Connecticut Post, and the New York Times.
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Gumby, I didn't see a means to allow more than one affirmative in the poll. Is there any way to do so?
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11-22-2020, 12:07 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
Posts: 25,356
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr._Graybeard
Oops, sorry. I'm new to this poll business.
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Don't feel bad; nobody ever includes enough options to please everyone.
Also, many don't realize that it's possible to set it so people can choose multiple options rather than just one.
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11-22-2020, 12:12 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 11,702
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I don't currently pay. I used to get the newspaper but stopped when they started exhibiting significant bias of omission. After seeing events in person that were not covered, I was dumbfounded.
One could say people like me are part of the problem since we aren't paying salaries. But how can I support such a defective product?
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11-22-2020, 12:12 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 9,176
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I chose that I don't pay for any news, but I'm considering paying for my local news. The local news papers recently changed their online material to be partially subscription. Of course, I'm finding the articles I want to read are behind the subscription wall.
We have two main news papers here. They actually share print and distribution services. However, I'd need a subscription to both to read both. If they allowed for a discounted combined subscription, I might be quicker to consider it. I like reading both because one swings right and the other left, so there's balance in looking at both.
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11-22-2020, 12:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 7,591
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I subscribe to a local paper plus The Wall Street Journal and Barron's.
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11-22-2020, 12:28 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,731
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr._Graybeard
One of my local papers is a weekly, so its news is generally days old, but nobody else is covering my school board and the police blotter. My school district gets the biggest piece of my tax dollar.
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I forgot to mention....I have a limited *free* subscription to my hometown online newspaper (Waterbury Connecticut Republican-American) and occasionally sign on to check the obituaries to see if anyone I knew or worked with passed away. I also can read 5 articles a month with the free subscription.
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11-22-2020, 12:59 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Ventura County
Posts: 1,433
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I use to mostly scam my way past paywalls to get my news for free. About 4 years ago I realized that conventional news was in danger of being supplanted by new "curated" news feeds and decided to pay full subscription rates to my chosen newspaper as a kind of "democracy tax". I expect to do that for the rest of days.
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11-22-2020, 01:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: City
Posts: 10,351
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We subscribe to our city's paper and to The Economist. Both provide hard copy and online access.
DW subscribes to the online WaPo and NYT I think. I piggy back on her WaPo subscription but that's enough liberal bias for me. It is third on my morning reading list after Reuters and Google News. The local paper is fourth.
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11-22-2020, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Belle Mead
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Yes - I pay for WSJ subscription and for the local newspaper of the region I'll be moving into in the Spring
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11-22-2020, 01:05 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aja8888
I forgot to mention....I have a limited *free* subscription to my hometown online newspaper (Waterbury Connecticut Republican-American) and occasionally sign on to check the obituaries to see if anyone I knew or worked with passed away. I also can read 5 articles a month with the free subscription.
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That's an interesting newspaper. Family ownership is becoming a rarity. The last four family-owned daily papers in my state sold out to a chain last year, including the one where the ME has been laid off. Gannett, Lee and Adams bring the news to Wisconsin now.
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11-22-2020, 01:07 PM
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Location: Texas
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No way I'd pay for it.
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