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Very true about clutter and greening one's space, but my husband and I have a morning ritual of coffee/tea, listening to the jazz station, and reading the paper together. I wouldn't give that up for the world.

I know you guys will hate this, but I read my coworker's!

I read my daily news online, from multiple sources, but I get the print version of the Sunday NY Times.

I get the weekend NYT delivered. I wish I could pick out which sections I get on the weekends, 'cause who ever has time to read the entire thing? and it does start to clutter up space mighty quickly.

It's a slow-down ritual for me reading the weekend paper, that is when my neighbors don't steal it.

I used to get two daily papers delivered - the NYT and the Wash. Post. Lots of newspaper clutter, lots of compulsion to read it all. Now I only buy the Thurs. NYT for the home and the tech sections and the Tues. paper for the science section. Of course I read the rest of the paper too for those days. Otherwise, a mix of news from the internet and NPR and random papers I might find at cafes or the gym. I love not having masses of newsprint around all the time and I like to diversify my news sources, although I still mostly count on NYT, NPR, and CNN as my main ones.

I pretty much read online exclusively at this point with a couple of exceptions: I skim our local (and truly horrible daily paper) the Oregonian and like to read hard copies of the NY Times on Sundays, Weds, Thurs, and Friday. However, so many cafes here in Portland have these papers lying around either as a free service to their customers or as leftovers from other readers that I rarely if ever buy a paper on my daily trips to the cafe for my coffee.

In addition, I love being able to get online anytime and check out newspapers from all over the States and the World as well as (same as the above poster) other diverse news sources such as the BBC, Slate, NPR, etc, etc...

Probably not what editors at the dailies want to hear, but that's the truth of it for me (and I imagine a growing number of others).

i recycle so much of it unread, that i just get the sunday times delivered and read on line otherwise. altho, i must admit that i print out most articles to read on the train, but at least i'm only printing what i want to read!

"Or do you read all your news online, like us?..."
LIKE US!
in other words "are you green, p.c. and cool like us?"

Now that the NYTimes has ditched their paid subscription services (archives, etc.) in favor of relying on ad revenue exclusively, I wonder if eventually they will post the entire print edition online for free. I think they would have to since the hardcopy circulation is just going to go down more and more in the future. While I like the online edition, I do miss all of the extras you get from the print editions- advertising, weather maps, notices, etc.

I used to subscribe to the NYT weekend editions, but my neighbors were relentless about stealing my paper, so I had to cancel. As much as I hate old newspaper clutter, I did love lazy Sunday afternoons reading the paper with my boyfriend. Now we're both in front of our respective laptops, me reading the Times and him reading the Suddeutsche Zeitung.

"How do you get your newspaper? Is your New York Times delivered straight to your doorstep every morning?"

So the NYT is the only newpaper in New York? Must be a small town.

I have a subscription of the Washington Post - I rearely read all of it, but I love flipping through it in the morning with my tea, and since I've figured out a recycling bin situation, the clutter isn't anywhere near as much of a problem as it used to be.
If I need up-to-date news, I turn to NPR or the internet, but for things like the style section and comics, I love having the newspaper in my hands. It would be nice to pick out which sections to have delivered though, the Sports section always goes directly into the recycling bin, which is such a waste.

Back in SF I used to get the Sunday paper delivered, but as my free time evaporated, I pretty much stopped reading it. Feeling guilty about my accumulation of unread papers, I cancelled. I've reclaimed my time now, but have become so accustomed to online reading that I stick to that. On random evenings and Sunday mornings the bf and I curl up on the couch with our laptops, troll various news sites, and gab about what's happening in the world.

Great point, Shawn. The original post is completely myopic and virtually pointless. As far as I can tell, the only real point of the post is to suggest that its socially responsible to read your news online and not buy hard copies of newspapers. This maybe true in the narrowest sense but what really needs to be discussed is the total amount of waste a person generates. What if AT only reads the NYTimes online but subscribes to 10 different magazines and wastes tons of paper in their office?

geez, Shawn and Southernwayfarer...get over it!

i think Regina was just using some examples. its not like AT is trying to be "cooler" by implying that they have chosen to be a bit greener and opt for online news sources (even though being green is way cool in my opinion!). and if she had mentioned the LA Times rather than the NY Times, would you have made a snarky comment, wondering if "the LAT is the only paper in LA...must be a small town"?

personally, i never have to purchase newspapers because i work in a publicity office and we get about every publication under the sun.

I read the NY Times online every day and we get our wonderful local paper, which, quaintly, only posts about one story a day online, delivered to our door daily.

For a while I only read the NYT online, but I have to say, it's really great to be able to look away from my computer screen every morning to glance over at the "real" paper that is solidly in paper and ink and reports on the goings-on of my neighbors. I cry reading the obituaries of noble people who lived nearby but who I never got to know, get outraged about a zoning dispute, and find out what play the local highschool is putting on.

I get the Washington Post delivered at home, often read the Times in paper or online at work, always take the office copy of the Times Thursday House section (and the Post's equivalent) to lunch on Thursday (and of course return it). I love reading the paper over coffee, it's my transition between my home and work selves.

I usually skim for breaking news online as well, but reading the paper in actual newsprint is a physical as well as mental pleasure.

We are weekend NYT subscribers who wouldn't trade our coffee drinking, cuddling, reading, intellectual discourse, husband & wife bonding time for anything. Afterwards, we recycle the paper along with all our plastics, aluminum and glass. The rather judgmental opinion of AT about print readers seems unnecessary and unfair. BAD AT!

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I can't deal with the amount of paper that is used to actually print the newpapers. Sure, the paper is recyclable, but that only reclaims the natural resource. It doesn't reclaim the energy and water that goes into making the paper, the engergy used to print the paper, the gas to deliver papers, etc. And while the process of recycling reclaims the pulp, it too is an energy intensive process.

Sure, my computer uses power too, but as far as I can tell, way more total energy goes into printing one copy of the NYTimes than my ISP, computer, network infrastructure, etc use.

both, actually. I rather like reading the paper itself, although I rarely read more than a handful of articles on any given day. I check the news wires during the day for breaking news.

By the way, while I am a New York Times reader, when I travel I always pick up the local papers and see what they're covering and how. Any other travelers addicted to local media out there?

About twenty years ago I was in Canada and someone told me the reindeer were dwindling because they ate a moss that grows on dead trees and the trees were being wiped out to produce the NY Times and as much I love lounging with the actual paper when I visit NY, I alway think of the reindeer. At home I read it daily online.

I get the weekend St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Sunday New York Times. There are so many more stories I find just browsing the print editions that I would have never found online.

I don't feel one drop of remorse about getting the print editions of these newspapers. It's one of my little pleasures.

Plus, the paper doesn't get as hot as my iBook.

I stopped buying the NY Times when I realized I was really only getting it for the crossword which I get online now.

But how do you get the ink off your screen?

I don't have time to read online lately. I get the WSJ delivered daily and read that while doing other things, and I read the print New York Times on weekends.

I have felt guilt about the paper used, but I throughly read the paper, and it's hard to really do that properly online. You can hit the highlights, but that's about it.

London is plagued with free newspapers. One in the morning and two in the evening. They are impossible to avoid and I read them all. (I've also already heard the news by then as I wake to the Today Programme - radio). I often also buy the Evening Standard and I read what were the broadsheets on line.

(This has made me realise, this is too much news...)

It's all about being resposible, isn't it?

Some people have subscriptions because they read the paper. They read the paper and then discard it. If it is convenient people will then recycle their paper--bonus.

What is not responsible are the amount of ding-dongs that don't read and sign up for daily newspaper delivery. You see the effects of this in many multi-unit residence lobbies. A pile of newspapers, the same reactionary headline multiplied by the number of papers that are there, just lying there in their own little clear plastic body bags.

I really believe this, I think we have to succumb to a certain amount of hypocrisy if we live in a large city. Hopefully, we just continue to work on creating a healthier balance when it comes to the negatives. For instance, everybody loves their free Reader in Chicago. But obviously it's printed on paper, distributed freely and thrown all over the place freely.

In my opinion, we'd have a healthier balance if, we keep the Reader and immediately halt all printing of anything Red, Scene magazine, that ladies of the night paper in the box, the car magazine in the box, the real estate paper in the box, the dick in the box, oops-not the last one (that's not really a paper).

The big ones are the Red ones, those papers which are not only available for free in boxes, but actually personally handed out to the masses as if they are encouraged to masturbate their brains with garbage information and then mindlessly stuff the paper into whatever crack they can find on public transporation. Bleet! Bleet! There really is something disturbing about seeing a garbage can overflowing with nothing but free newspapers, and styrofoam Dunkin Donuts cups.