Fun Fact: this has always been true. That and avoiding the children. In the days of outhouses, sitting on the toilet for hours was not great. So they read newspapers.
Edit: I was more being funny about wasting time in the bathroom too avoid child responsibility. People have often needed long times to make things work. The person that responded to me had some great points.
They would have the Pennysaver, the WSJ, that local paper made by someone with a trust fund who practices “real” journalism, or some anti-government conspiracy “paper” made at Kinko’s.
Wait, does Gen Z even read newspapers? Totally blew away my suspension of disbelief.
Each generation does something to spite the previous. Gen Z reads the papers ironically.
Eh I don’t mind if they do that?
The problem: it’s The Sun (take your pick of regional version), the only newspaper that Gen Z can afford.
I didn’t say its a bad thing. It’s just a constant across generations.
I’m gen z
I have never read them except out of Boredom
Most news I read online, but even the news gets boring sometimes
I wish the news was boring more often
Fun Fact: this has always been true. That and avoiding the children. In the days of outhouses, sitting on the toilet for hours was not great. So they read newspapers.
Edit: I was more being funny about wasting time in the bathroom too avoid child responsibility. People have often needed long times to make things work. The person that responded to me had some great points.
There was a whole genre of books called “bathroom readers”.
You are right. Thank you
Reader’s Digest was literal!
I’m not sure if I could manage to get a paper newspaper nowadays if I went out looking for it.
I signed up with my local paper. Got the cheapest yearly subscription they offered that gave me full access to their articles online.
It came with delivery of the Sunday paper every week. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Before me, an elderly lady lived in my place. I still get her newspaper every week. Maybe one day I’ll remember to cancel it.
Hipsters brought back vinyl records, I could see them doing the same for papers
They would have the Pennysaver, the WSJ, that local paper made by someone with a trust fund who practices “real” journalism, or some anti-government conspiracy “paper” made at Kinko’s.
Newspapers are going the way of the dodo.