I have always detested the newspaper. Physically it is ugly, awkward to handle, dirty, and noisy. The smell of ink on newsprint is a bitter stench that I've never been able to tolerate- especially around food. I will not sit at a table with someone reading a newspaper.
Couple that with the lies, and relentless left wing proselytizing, and I'd be hard pressed to come up with a less appealing product. Die already.

JWM

My mother in law says they make good linings for the bottoms of her 3 bird cages. Speaking of MIL, she subscribes to the biggest city in the state paper and reads it online and often finds discrepancies in the articles between the 2 versions. IOW, an article in the paper version isn't the same as the same article in the online version.

They are increasingly being bought by billionaires for reasons of prestige and political power. They are not viewed as an investment but a toy, a bauble, like a trophy wife, a depreciating asset and a future liability. Totally worth it at the time.

The Wall Street Journal has the best writing, (though as with all else in life caution and discretion are suggested while reading), but outside of a elevator lobby they seem unable to deliver a physical paper reliably. And it is the physical paper that is at question here.
The Weekend (Sat/Sun) copy is now $4.00. Daily is $3.00. Plug those numbers into the circulation figures comparing 2013 to today.

Still number one for killing spiders.

JWM, contrary to your thought (but not you, sir!), newspapers are considered a field-expedient "sterile field". Was taught that in an early 1980s AACOG Law Enforcement Academy class. Specifically, what to use in which to deliver a newborn under emergency conditions, as well as packing of a wound if necessary.

Now, that's an unsold, perfectly intact paper from inside the stack, not the top or bottom of the bundle, and damn sure not the one that Chester the Molester was wanking into at the local playground.

As far as your editorial appreciation though, you are exactly correct, sir. The odds of a given paper being left wing dreck are roughly the same as the house winning in the long run in Vegas.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Photoshops can break your heart, can't they!

Couldn't happen to more deserving organizations. The newspapers long ago turned themselves into Pravda for the leftists. Here's what George Orwell said about the left-wing journalists and intellectuals. ‘Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for. Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.’

I used to work for a small-town daily with a circulation of 9,000. I started as a photographer (which I loved) then became the Lifestyles Editor (which I did not love). My co-workers and I worked hard to deliver the best we could every day. My newspaper belonged to a libertarian chain of papers, which meant we didn't endorse candidates and nor did we encourage citizens to vote! Public schools had to pay for advertising special events, and the largest advertiser had no more influence than a single reader. Being a libertarian paper gave us enormous freedom.