Don’t forget the tail end of the newspaper saga—the newspaper drive! That’s where organizations like the boy scouts and some schools would go around collecting old newspapers from homes and businesses to get some money on their recycling.
A wee bit OT but thought I would throw it in. What % of registered R voters believe-along with their State and Federal Reps-that Climate change is a hoax? According to Bloomberg News Eric Roston-quarter page story on page A15 of the 09/04/22 Tulsa World, not as many as we think. Surveys show that Americans believe that about 40% of the public supports clean energy policies. The actual figure is a super majority of 66% to 80%. Meaning that a very large % of R voters in rural states are not in denial. They make their living off the land, if anything they are hyperaware of Global Climate Change and what it means. Part of the solution may be as simple as talking to each other more. RWers tend to underestimate the popularity of positions they disagree with whereas Liberals assume far fewer people share their opinions than actually do. So despite the yelling by GQP State and Federal Reps that Climate Change is a hoax, a majority to a super majority of R voters(66 to80%) believe its real. Now if the RW reps would just start listening rather than screaming, we might actually try and accomplish something…. (Sigh)but I really doubt that will happen anytime soon seeing as how the “conservatives” have spent the last 20 some years carving their positions(Its all a hoax) in stone
ours is mailed to us now, which means it doesn’t get here until late afternoon and its “news” is even staler than usual. i keep my subscription partly out of stubbornness, partly out of loyalty to the very idea of newspapers, and partly because once in a huge while there is some local news in there that i wouldn’t get elsewhere. oh, and also when i bundle them up and tie it with string, it makes helpful lined walkways among the many garden beds!❣️
I was lucky with my route, people paid at the Five and Dime. If they fell two weeks behind, they were removed from my route. They’d still complain to me, but I’d tell them to take it up with Tony, I was just the delivery boy. There was one guy who’d be out in his yard waiting for me to complain. Kept it up for months, until it got cold.
ibFrank over 1 year ago
Sad, but true.
The dude from FL Premium Member over 1 year ago
Can’t get one here (unless by mail) but I trust a newspaper more than I trust the internet news
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
Gawrsch, I feel so honored. I delivered papers, and so did my kids.
Then, they kind of went away.
sergioandrade Premium Member over 1 year ago
Still get papers delivered by cars in my neighborhood, the free paper that is mostly supermarket ads.
Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago
The paperboys had to buy the papers themselves, and sell them to make money.
Some customers would just stiff them. A 12-year-old kid. Ringing the doorbell while adults hide and pretend they aren’t home.
William Robbins Premium Member over 1 year ago
These days, instead of “All the news that’s fit to print”, it’s “All the news that fits my priors”…
Objective Turnip over 1 year ago
Don’t forget the tail end of the newspaper saga—the newspaper drive! That’s where organizations like the boy scouts and some schools would go around collecting old newspapers from homes and businesses to get some money on their recycling.
timbob2313 Premium Member over 1 year ago
A wee bit OT but thought I would throw it in. What % of registered R voters believe-along with their State and Federal Reps-that Climate change is a hoax? According to Bloomberg News Eric Roston-quarter page story on page A15 of the 09/04/22 Tulsa World, not as many as we think. Surveys show that Americans believe that about 40% of the public supports clean energy policies. The actual figure is a super majority of 66% to 80%. Meaning that a very large % of R voters in rural states are not in denial. They make their living off the land, if anything they are hyperaware of Global Climate Change and what it means. Part of the solution may be as simple as talking to each other more. RWers tend to underestimate the popularity of positions they disagree with whereas Liberals assume far fewer people share their opinions than actually do. So despite the yelling by GQP State and Federal Reps that Climate Change is a hoax, a majority to a super majority of R voters(66 to80%) believe its real. Now if the RW reps would just start listening rather than screaming, we might actually try and accomplish something…. (Sigh)but I really doubt that will happen anytime soon seeing as how the “conservatives” have spent the last 20 some years carving their positions(Its all a hoax) in stone
Raven OKeefe Premium Member over 1 year ago
ours is mailed to us now, which means it doesn’t get here until late afternoon and its “news” is even staler than usual. i keep my subscription partly out of stubbornness, partly out of loyalty to the very idea of newspapers, and partly because once in a huge while there is some local news in there that i wouldn’t get elsewhere. oh, and also when i bundle them up and tie it with string, it makes helpful lined walkways among the many garden beds!❣️
RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 1 year ago
I threw papers as a teenager.
david_42 over 1 year ago
I was lucky with my route, people paid at the Five and Dime. If they fell two weeks behind, they were removed from my route. They’d still complain to me, but I’d tell them to take it up with Tony, I was just the delivery boy. There was one guy who’d be out in his yard waiting for me to complain. Kept it up for months, until it got cold.
Cerabooge over 1 year ago
I don’t really miss newspapers. They were shrinking down to almost nothing anyway.
biz.gocomics over 1 year ago
The irony is, I had to read this here today because my newspaper forgot to include the comics in today’s e-edition.