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« on: February 21, 2011, 04:45:32 PM »
Just curious. I always check the world news first.
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2011, 05:20:59 PM »
Whatever is on the front page - I read from front to back, like any sensible person. Usually the front has a mixture, I guess.
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2011, 06:17:21 PM »
Depends a bit on the season.  I'll check sports if its football season (and a reporting day ), otherwise I'll usually peel the local section out and scan it.
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2011, 06:22:34 PM »
I totally don't read the paper anymore. It wasn't a conscious decision. It just kind of...happened. I picked world because that's what I look at most often these days on my phone's news feed, but during college football season it's definitely sports.
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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2011, 07:19:35 PM »
I was thinking we were talking actual paper newspaper. I never buy them, but I'm in airports all the time and I can always find a discarded free one, and when I do I read straight through. When I get my news from the internet, I only read the sports - unless I hear something in passing about somebody dying or a place getting blown up or something.
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2011, 07:26:00 PM »
I read the local small-town, twice-weekly paper straight through, but it's only good for local news. 

I read the Sunday paper straight through.  Don't read a daily paper, except online.
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2011, 07:36:44 PM »
I guess probably world.  I don't read the newspaper at all.  I don't frequent the local news outlets online much because they suck as much as their print/television counterparts.  I'll read a local story if someone links to something on Facebook.  But most local news isn't even news at all.  Or even if it is I can't take the smarmy pun filled way they go about covering it.  

I don't read sports news because sports stars for the most part are complete and total douchebags and I don't want to know anymore about it than I have to.

I don't read about the weather because who gives a fuck.  Also, they are frequently wrong.

I don't read the financial section because I don't have any money to invest.

I don't care about the obituaries unless there is someone I know in there.  And judging by the obits I've read of people I know, most obits don't say anything at all of substance about the deceased anyway.

I used to like the entertainment section, but I get all of that type of news off of the internet now.

Sometimes there would be something interesting in the lifestyle section, but not too often.

I used to like the comics section, but it really sucks these days too.  Now I enjoy the comics ironically via Comics Curmudgeon.  To revise my first paragraph, back when I read the newspaper I would almost always read the comics first.

Sometimes I still read the local weekly alternative paper, but not too often.  I do religiously follow their food critic Katherine Shilcutt online.
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2011, 07:42:18 PM »
We only get the paper on Sundays now.  I pretty much go for sports first, then travel, arts/style, opinion, then the actual news sections.
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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2011, 08:15:59 PM »
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I guess probably world.  I don't read the newspaper at all.  I don't frequent the local news outlets online much because they suck as much as their print/television counterparts.  I'll read a local story if someone links to something on Facebook.  But most local news isn't even news at all.  Or even if it is I can't take the smarmy pun filled way they go about covering it.  

I don't read sports news because sports stars for the most part are complete and total douchebags and I don't want to know anymore about it than I have to.

I don't read about the weather because who gives a fuck.  Also, they are frequently wrong.

I don't read the financial section because I don't have any money to invest.

I don't care about the obituaries unless there is someone I know in there.  And judging by the obits I've read of people I know, most obits don't say anything at all of substance about the deceased anyway.

I used to like the entertainment section, but I get all of that type of news off of the internet now.

Sometimes there would be something interesting in the lifestyle section, but not too often.

I used to like the comics section, but it really sucks these days too.  Now I enjoy the comics ironically via Comics Curmudgeon.  To revise my first paragraph, back when I read the newspaper I would almost always read the comics first.

Sometimes I still read the local weekly alternative paper, but not too often.  I do religiously follow their food critic Katherine Shilcutt online.




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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2011, 10:43:29 PM »
Front page, entertainment, front page of sports, comics and puzzles.
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2011, 11:13:26 PM »
I read the once a week local news only paper. Ever thing else I absorb from the internet. SI.com for sports during lunch, sometimes I cruise the WaPost and I have some favourite columnists who don't make me want to vomit too heartily. Televised news is dead to me. The weather is served by the internet.

When I did read the local rag (before they shit on me) it was comics-local-sports-national.
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« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2011, 12:00:05 AM »
Ash, do you ever read ESPN? Or are you SI only? Also, do you read KissingSuzyKolber?
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« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2011, 12:18:59 AM »
Quote from: Asherdan on February 21, 2011, 11:13:26 PM
When I did read the local rag (before they shit on me) it was comics-local-sports-national.

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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2011, 02:40:29 AM »
Quote from: Asherdan on February 21, 2011, 11:13:26 PM
I read the once a week local news only paper. Ever thing else I absorb from the internet. SI.com for sports during lunch, sometimes I cruise the WaPost and I have some favourite columnists who don't make me want to vomit too heartily. Televised news is dead to me. The weather is served by the internet.

When I did read the local rag (before they shit on me) it was comics-local-sports-national.


What he said.  Especially the part about TV news being dead to me.
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2011, 03:02:32 AM »
I wish I didn't get exposed to TV news (mostly FOX) constantly at work. I turn the TVs off as often as possible, or to ESPN or the NFL network, but sometimes people (and I use the term loosely indeed) are watching it.
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