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[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Wait, does Gen Z even read newspapers? Totally blew away my suspension of disbelief.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Each generation does something to spite the previous. Gen Z reads the papers ironically.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eh I don’t mind if they do that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

The problem: it’s The Sun (take your pick of regional version), the only newspaper that Gen Z can afford.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I wish the news was boring more often

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I have never read them except out of Boredom

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There was a whole genre of books called "bathroom readers".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Reader's Digest was literal!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if I could manage to get a paper newspaper nowadays if I went out looking for it.

[–] RoquetteQueen 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] thecrotch 2 points 9 months ago

Hipsters brought back vinyl records, I could see them doing the same for papers