Do you read your newspaper?

And I mean, outside of proofing the sports section at the end of the night? I know at my last shop, I rarely did.

 

I'll scan through the news section and read the op-ed page. If there's something major or interesting happening in town I'll read the story.

 

Nope.

 

When I worked at 'em, I read 'em every day, and I read my local paper now cover to cover every morning. When I moved into my own place post-divorce, I didn't for a while and just felt like I was missing something.

 

I work on the web -- in sports and not affiliated with a newspaper in any way -- but still read my local paper every day. Every section.

If you come in for an interview and don't know current events beyond sports I won't be hiring you. Simple as that.

If you say you don't have time, you need to find it.

 

I'm pretty sure you can figure out what's going on without reading the paper...

 

By watching the TV news? I don't think so.

 

I wish my writers did. The younger ones, especially. Then they would see what I keep changing and maybe catch on --- and quit freaking doing it.

 

Same here. Sports letters go into the main section, so I end up looking at that quite a bit.

 

Uh-uh.

And as for the sports, we can now read that online five hours before it comes out in print, so...

 

Yep, every word under a local byline and much of the wire stuff.

 

Welp, my response was for Kleeda mentioning not knowing "current events beyond sports". I feel you can get up to date on "current events beyond sports" via the internet a la CNN, yahoo, etc without picking up a newspaper.

If by current events one maybe means current events in a certain region, the TV news isn't going to be the best source for that. I agree the local podunk paper is the best source to find out what happened at Dicksville's school board meeting...