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The Post-Intelligencer.

We get the Oregonian delivered 7 days a week. Not because it's a good paper; it's not, it's a crappy paper with a really annoying political bent, and some truly sloppy reporting. But ... it's the only way to get a lot of state and regional news. The local alternative papers can give us some of the same Portland area news (with a different political slant, of course), but they don't go far outside the city. Like it or not (and I don't mind), we live in the same state as people from Madras, Pendleton, and Florence, even if their towns are Red and ours is Blue, and it's important (at least to me) to know what's going on there.

Try replacing a paper with TV? Even worse parochialism, plus the 5 second attention span of TV news.

I stopped reading the local paper after th War in Iraq started. It was bad enough to have them be part of the Dubya propaganda machine, but they also ran columns by nasties such as Charles Krauthamer and Cal Thomas.

We subscribe to both local (Philadelphia) newspapers, and Don reads them. I get my news from an rss feed in my emailbox.

I rarely read a real newspaper...not because I don't enjoy the total experience of reading one, the dusty inky smell, the sound of the pages turning, the font choices, the pictures...I even don't mind the black elbows....but the timing of when the paper shows up is hard for me and by the time I get to reading it, I've picked up most of the news online. It was wasted paper in my house and more than once I've recycled an entire week of still bundled newspapers.

We get the local delivered every day. Good paper too. I can't imagine how people get by without a newspaper. Local TV stations aren't local for the most part. Definitely not here. All we can get is New York City news on TV. For local murders and scandal we need the Times Herald Record.

Also it's how we know what times a movie's playing and where.