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You know the oldest Gen Xers are pushing 60, right? And probably had their first job delivering the newspaper back in the day?
And most Millennials are in their 30s; depending on metrics used some are a few years into their 40s.
There is a difference between never having seen/experienced an "old school" item and having seen/regularly used it in the past but now utilizing/embracing the modern alternative...
And most Millennials are in their 30s; depending on metrics used some are a few years into their 40s.
There is a difference between never having seen/experienced an "old school" item and having seen/regularly used it in the past but now utilizing/embracing the modern alternative...
Now let me go charge my Ipod nano....
I read the N&O on my Zune.
That's about as up-to-date as the news in the "printed" edition. All of yesterday's news, tomorrow.
I got the N&O for so many years, starting in 1986 (before that I read my parents' paper), I also got the Raleigh Times until it stopped circulation. Service started getting bad around 2012 or so when they outsourced their circulation department. One time when I didn't get my paper, I called for a redelivery and the person I talked to told me my address didn't exist and that's why I didn't get it (though I'd lived at that address for 10 years and had gotten a paper the while time I lived there). We moved to the mountains in 2016 for 3 years and when we came back, I re-upped. That lasted a few months before I canceled due to how thin the paper was, actually I think I went to Sunday only and then decided the crossword wasn't worth it. I was also a coffee and newspaper person, but it didn't take me long to adapt to reading the news on my laptop instead.
If there is something I want to read in the Charlotte Observer (rare but occasionally happens) I can read it online through the Mecklenburg County library website. I am sure the N&O is available the same way.
Can't imagine why anyone would pay to read the news these days. Especially the extremely biased Charlotte Observer.
We dropped our subscription to the Durham Herald-Sun about 15 years ago. We were in a crunch and had to cut back. Still get one off the rack every now and then. I love newspapers but they are dropping like flies now. N&O used to have a booth at the state fair every year, giving out papers and signing subscribers. The last time I saw, they couldn't even give them away.
If there is something I want to read in the Charlotte Observer (rare but occasionally happens) I can read it online through the Mecklenburg County library website. I am sure the N&O is available the same way.
Can't imagine why anyone would pay to read the news these days. Especially the extremely biased Charlotte Observer.
Not sure about Wake County, but Durham County library offers the service. The search engine isn't the greatest.
Their customer service is abysmal as well. It's like they want to punish their customers. I don't know if that applies to all McClatchy papers or if the News & Observer is especially bad.
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What do people feel is the most cost effective way to get local news?
My local news sources are generally local news broadcasts and the print edition of Indy Week. I don't love either of them, but they are there and they are free.
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