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    -12 days ago

    Except that nobody reads newspapers anymore and would see the news on their phone. Hard to adapt the angry newspaper seller guy to an updated version.

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      82 days ago

      Tell that to the grumpy old folks that sit at my library and grouse while waiting for their turn with the newspaper. I’ve seen queues 3 deep. No, they won’t share. Yes, they will spawn camp the newspaper rack.

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        21 day ago

        My late best friend would always buy a newspaper when travelling any journey more than an hour. I’d joke and say that he was too young to be such an old man, but I think that made him like it more. Whether you’re buying it or going to the library for it, I think that many people who enjoy physical newspapers relish the ritual of it

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          11 day ago

          I do enjoy the layout of newspapers. Having articles alongside other stories helps put them in context and encourages one to read things they might otherwise skip if they had to be clicked into.

          I often do research in old microfilmed newspapers and it’s nice to know that, say, WWI was going on in Europe at the same time as Baby Week 1916 (a US effort to reduce infant mortality by education parents on the importance of not killing their babies through poor sanitary and nutritional practices)