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[-] anonionfinelyminced@kbin.social 75 points 11 months ago

Wait, does Gen Z even read newspapers? Totally blew away my suspension of disbelief.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 11 months ago

Each generation does something to spite the previous. Gen Z reads the papers ironically.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago

Eh I don’t mind if they do that?

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago

The problem: it’s The Sun (take your pick of regional version), the only newspaper that Gen Z can afford.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't say its a bad thing. It's just a constant across generations.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I'm gen z

I have never read them except out of Boredom

Most news I read online, but even the news gets boring sometimes

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago

I wish the news was boring more often

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have never read them except out of Boredom

Fun Fact: this has always been true. That and avoiding the children. In the days of outhouses, sitting on the toilet for hours was not great. So they read newspapers.

Edit: I was more being funny about wasting time in the bathroom too avoid child responsibility. People have often needed long times to make things work. The person that responded to me had some great points.

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

There was a whole genre of books called "bathroom readers".

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago
[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Reader's Digest was literal!

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure if I could manage to get a paper newspaper nowadays if I went out looking for it.

[-] smort@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I signed up with my local paper. Got the cheapest yearly subscription they offered that gave me full access to their articles online.

It came with delivery of the Sunday paper every week. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Before me, an elderly lady lived in my place. I still get her newspaper every week. Maybe one day I'll remember to cancel it.

[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Hipsters brought back vinyl records, I could see them doing the same for papers

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

They would have the Pennysaver, the WSJ, that local paper made by someone with a trust fund who practices "real" journalism, or some anti-government conspiracy "paper" made at Kinko's.

Newspapers are going the way of the dodo.

this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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