Should you subscribe to your own publication?

Or, we could simply make it a requirement that every newsroom person read the paper every day, then leave it up to them to figure out how best to meet that requirement.

 

That's fine by me.

I don't care if someone rummages through a garbage can to read the paper.

As long as he reads it.

I don't care if my collegues are cheap. I just don't want them to be ignorant.

 

Then you and I are on the same page.

 

Bottom line: If your publication if foolish enough to hire you, there is nothing to be gained by reading it.

 

BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

That's true, and it's a shame that this thread's title created a "subscription" divide when most people will agree that reading is what's important. A few people (AlleyAllen) may religiously read the paper without subscribing, but I believe these people are in the tiny minority.

That being said . . . buying a year at the gym likely will increase the chances that you actually will exercise. Likewise, subscribing likely will increase the amount of the paper you actually read. Not for everyone, of course. But as a general principle I believe that's true.

 

Fifteen minutes after you report for work, there will be a quiz in the conference room.

 

I'm canceling my subscription to Maximum Golf

 

I don't have a problem with that.

Hell, my old Navy boss used to make it mandatory that we spend 15 minutes every day doing a crossword puzzle because it would expand our vocabulary. Good idea.

And my whole issue of reading the paper fully extends to my Navy days, when we did the morning clips, a collection of any and all U.S. military stores from the four area papers (New London Day, Norwich Bulletin, New Haven Register and Hartford Courant).

 

Grilled chicken? They have options.

 

That's a reasonable argument, but I know plenty of 10-year (and more) veterans that don't subscribe. That's where my argument is aimed ... I'm 25. I've subscribed to the paper I used to work for the time I was there and since I left about a year ago, but I realize that's not an option for most people starting in the industry.