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Reading newspapers - how unusual am I?

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Bookridden · 19/11/2017 18:47

I'm in my 40s and I've realised that hardly anyone my age or younger that I know reads a paper every or most days. Quite a few friends read a paper at the weekend, but the only people I know (apart from me) who read a daily paper are retired, elderly relatives! I happened to go for a walk recently in the area where I live on recycling day, and I noticed as well that very few houses had papers in their paper recycling bins. So, I wonder how unusual my avid paper habit is and - sadly - if newspapers will have much of a future as younger people seem to get all their news from the internet.

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Davros · 20/11/2017 11:44

The Today programme, Newsnight, local papers - Zone 2 London so often relevant nationally. Channel 4 news, Private Eye etc

Davros · 20/11/2017 11:46

Oh and conversations with other people and filter according to what I know or think about them. I stopped using FB just before the election because I was sick of being bombarded by other people’s’ politics, often biased or untrue from the Internet

shutitandtidyupgitface · 20/11/2017 11:48

if newspapers will have much of a future as younger people seem to get all their news from the internet

Did you not realise that the newspapers are on the internet and most of us read it in that way?
Just because we aren't wasting endless amounts of paper doesn't mean we aren't reading the papers.

fleshmarketclose · 20/11/2017 12:02

I'm almost 50 and haven't bought a newspaper since exh left in June. We used to have two delivered daily. My eyesight is awful (even with reading specs) so I struggle to read the print nowadays anyway and read snippets online if I'm interested enough. I don't miss having a newspaper at all though.

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