I've never been much of a newspaper reader even though I have a degree in mass media. I'm old enough that I could have been, but I just never read it regularly. I pretty much do everything digitally that I can (except vinyl) and that includes taking notes, news, documents..whatever. The newspaper to me has always been cumbersome and messy.
I read the paper everyday.
I see it as one of my responsibilities as a citizen of th U.S.
I'm not sure why reading a "paper" is a citizen responsibility. Keeping up with the news may be a responsibility, but there are many ways to do that.
Ughhhh! I cannot even imagine enjoying a book from a screen. I will never go there. To me, part of it is about the texture, smell, and getting away from screens. I noticed kindle readers are a dime a dozen at thrift stores now. I assumed it was a passing fad.
What you are seeing as dime a dozen in the thrift stores are either older readers that people have upgraded from, or readers from people who bought into the fad of e-readers but weren't really book readers to begin with. My wife and mother both fall into the later category. I don't need to be dragging arround hard copy books everywhere and I read everything on my iPad or computer. The only hard copy publication I've bought with any regularity is the single magazine I used to buy in the airport to read on the plane during takeoff and landing. Now that you don't have to put your tablet away, I don't even need that. Btw, if you've never checked them out, you should check out the e-ink screens on the readers that have them. They aren't a nornal LCD display screen and visually are extremely similar to a written page. I would have one myself (or commandeer my wife's since she never uses it) but I don't read entire books often enough to make it necessary and just do all my reading on my iPad.
IMHO, a newspaper isn´t here to reflect your views, it´s there to inform you what is going on in the world.
Well, as we were always taught, a newspaper is there to inform and present the facts (except in the editorial section)
without bias. They no longer inform properly (they are littered with errors, bad reporting, poorly checked facts, sensationalism and ads disguised as news) nor is the editorial or biased reporting limited to the editorial sections. Unfortunately ALL media has become this way so the only way to get balanced news (much like reading reviews on amazon) is to read a large cross section of them, see how each bias is reporting the stories, and distill the facts and unbiased info from that. This isn't something you can do by subscribing to a single paper which is another reason why I wouldn't do it.