I'm so old I still get the newspaper daily.

UK, my dad would go to the cornershop to buy The Mirror.

I was wondering what he was doing with all these mirrors.

Turns out The Mirror is a newspaper.

I almost never see any of them between my DNS filtering and ublock.

I had a paper route my man. It was decent money for a kid who could barely drive. A shitton of people cared a lot about their newspaper back then and would complain if it was wet or on the grass or wherever.

I remember when radios were called transistors.

I would come home from school and read the paper.

Started with the comics. Gotta have that daily chuckle fix. And Dear Abby and the astrology stuff is right there.

Then the sports section.

And then a few headlines, maybe a little entertainment, a crossword if i was feeling that bored....

When i was an adult we had cable news you could consume with alcohol. Which was a different problem.

Did that as a kid. Every day.

I still have subscription for my home town paper, even when i havent lived there for ten years.

The news there are so innocent when compared to big world news. I dont want to only read how wars are going and how the climate change is accelerating. I mean fuck yeah there was strange coloured fox seen on the forest and fuck yeah at the local school fundraiser little Timmy sold record amount of cupcakes.

Dunno where you live but even old genZ would remember that.

My parents were still getting the local paper around the mid-2010s, so can confirm. Definitely not as common, but definitely still happens.

I've seriously considered getting a newspaper. I know I wouldn't read it every day, but it would probably help ground me into my local community better and keep me a bit more sane.

We recently started getting the news paper because my daughter asked for it for a Christmas present. I personally thought that was weird, but we tried it out. After about a month or so she asked us to cancel it because the news was too depressing.

Passes mantle to Lichtmetzger You are the boomer now.

Just ordered the newspaper for my grandparents while I read the occassional entry in the e-paper.