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kairos12

(12,906 posts) Mon Jul 18, 2016, 09:33 AM Jul 2016

When reading a newspaper do you

read it from front to back by page number order, or do you skip from the front page to the article and return to the front page?

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When reading a newspaper do you (Original Post) kairos12 Jul 2016 OP

Back in the day, I read the complete article then returned to the front page. In_The_Wind Jul 2016 #1

We no longer get a newspaper. femmocrat Jul 2016 #2

First I used to sort out the ads and sports, then read the couple of top items, Letters, comics UTUSN Jul 2016 #3

I usually read an entire page bigwillq Jul 2016 #4

First I check to see what page the crossword puzzles are on.......... mrmpa Jul 2016 #5

Front to back hibbing Jul 2016 #6

Like this! elleng Jul 2016 #7

Childhood habits die hard Blue_Tires Jul 2016 #8

I always read the letters to the editor first Skittles Jul 2016 #9

I only read our little community neighborhood paper and the Sunday NYT. Laffy Kat Jul 2016 #10

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

1. Back in the day, I read the complete article then returned to the front page.

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2016, 09:34 AM

Jul 2016

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

2. We no longer get a newspaper.

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2016, 10:18 AM

Jul 2016

Not by choice.... they stopped rural deliveries. I always read the local section first, front to back.
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UTUSN

(70,793 posts)

3. First I used to sort out the ads and sports, then read the couple of top items, Letters, comics

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2016, 10:50 AM

Jul 2016

My grandparents and parents had subscriptions forever. I did for most of my adult life. Not necessarily because of the web but more because of DU activism (on my small scale), I stopped paying to the local wingnut-owned paper, but look at it online: Only the Local news and the Letters. The news-news I get from the web.

My boycott (member of one) is about not paying wingnuts to see content by wingnut jerks. I never read them, just paged past them, but paying meant supporting. It's great not seeing a pic of Ruben NAVARRETTE's ugly mug.

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)

4. I usually read an entire page

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2016, 11:43 AM

Jul 2016

And then turn to the next page and so forth

mrmpa

(4,033 posts)

5. First I check to see what page the crossword puzzles are on..........

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2016, 03:28 PM

Jul 2016

I then check the obits (to make sure I'm not listed) lol. I read all articles on the front page & then continue reading them when I get to that page. The op/ed page & letters to the editor are very important. I then read the local section, then the entertainment section & then the sports. On Thursdays there is an extra section of local news for the south & west areas of the city.

Me and my brothers as kids delivered the morning & evening papers. At one point my Dad had 3 papers delivered, the morning, evening and USA Today.

My 86 year old mom yesterday mentioned how small the paper is getting. It is getting thinner every day. When I delivered on Sundays as a kid, we had to take 3 wagons to deliver about 75 papers, they were that thick.

All 4 of us kids still have the paper delivered every morning (the evening paper went out of business in 1992), but instead of letting a kid have his first job, an adult delivers it and it's probably his 2nd or 3rd job of the week.

hibbing

(10,113 posts)

6. Front to back

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Mon Jul 18, 2016, 03:46 PM

Jul 2016

But I rarely read more than a couple stories.

Peace

elleng

(131,409 posts)

7. Like this!

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Mon Jul 18, 2016, 03:48 PM

Jul 2016

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

8. Childhood habits die hard

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Mon Jul 18, 2016, 05:07 PM

Jul 2016

First thing I read is still the comics, then sports, then the rest...

And sections like "business" I never read...

Skittles

(153,310 posts)

9. I always read the letters to the editor first

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2016, 08:47 PM

Jul 2016

then the rest front to back

Laffy Kat

(16,393 posts)

10. I only read our little community neighborhood paper and the Sunday NYT.

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 02:19 AM

Jul 2016

For the first, it's front to back. The Sunday Times is more of a ritual for me. First of all, I'm always at work, so first thing is removing the Sports section and putting it in the waiting room for the patients. Then I read the Magazine, the Op-Ed, the Style, Arts/Lifestyles and the front section. I'll glance at the Business section for headlines only and then that goes to the waiting room. Last is the Book Review which I savor with a new cup of coffee and something yummy.

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