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This is today’s San Antonio Express-News print edition. We started home delivery in 1987 when we moved to a San Antonio suburb (also the competing San Antonio Light, long since closed). Some years back, we converted to a digital subscription with a paper copy on Sundays only. When we moved to this home in 1997, the newspaper delivery guy would spend an hour in our neighborhood, but nowadays he is in and out in ten or fifteen minutes. The Sunday paper back in the day was enormous. The ad sections on Sunday and sale flyers were bigger than the rest of the paper. The paper is also physically slightly smaller and the paper thinner than old school newsprint.
I know the rise of the internet killed daily papers all over the place, but it’s sad to see them go. My wife was working an EMS shift a couple of years ago and was sitting in the break room with the newspaper spread out on the table. Another paramedic (about 25 years old) walked in and said he had literally never seen someone read a newspaper. RIP.
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Maybe even without the Internet, newspapers would've died. Race for Seis? Nobody mixes English and Spanish like that. And Garfield still exists?
All funning aside, I too miss newspapers.
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I still get the Galveston paper, but it is only published five days a week - Tuesday through Saturday. I brought a paper copy to work one day in 2024, and my younger co-workers looked at it as if I had brought in a living fossile.
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I subscribe to both local papers digitally.
Your post got to wonder how people paper train puppies today without newspaper.
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In San Antonio everyone mixes Spanish and English.
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I always wonder how hostage-takers will do proof-of-life videos.
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