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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

SOME people do read them, sure. But a lot fewer than used to. And that has brought ad numbers down. I remember when i had a Detroit News route. The hardest thing I ever had to do was convince my route manager that someone wanted to drop the paper. Or convince him to let me drop someone who wouldn't pay me. His attitude was non-payment was not a reason to drop a customer. Like fuck, I had to pay him for the paper to give to the guy who wouldn't pay me for it? But they did not like a circulation drop- because ad $$$.

My dad was a carpenter. He read two papers each night when he got home from work. I'm a high tech attorney. I was told I needed to read papers every day. I read none.

The thing that drives most people to read newspapers is local news. The New York Times is an exception. Bezos has been trying to do the same for The Washington Post. If you're reading a paper for business news, there's the Wall Street Journal, and now a lot of more specialized outlets. People pay for those.