A post on the BST Forum got me thinking... how many of you grew up getting the morning newspaper? Or perhaps even got up at the crack of dawn and actually delivered the paper?
I kind of miss waking up and seeing all of the headlines, before going straight to the sports section (Calgary Herald) and voraciously consuming the latest news. I think once a week they would have expanded team stats... and of course the daily box scores (although I only really cared how the Calgary teams did).
Sunday morning color comics. Friday TV Times. Paying the delivery guy the $10.30 or whatever it was every month when he’d come by in the evening.
It was a simpler time...
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I still do it on Saturdays and Sundays, I'll walk to the store and come home and spread it out over my table with a hot cup of coffee and its one of the most relaxing ways to wake up in the morning.
But yeah, I remember an evening paper, that my dad would grab the front page and the business section, I would grab sports and my sisters would fight over entertainment and the life section.
Its not the same reading papers from a tablet screen.
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Yup. My dad always had subscriptions to the Herald and either the Globe or Financial Post. The Herald was my thing, dad would have the business section and "A" section. I'd grab sports, City, and wherever the comics were (usually in classifieds). And then flip to A when he was done. This was in my early teens....
Kept me up to date in the world and what was going on in the world. It saddens me greatly to see what was once one an outstanding newsroom turn into shell of what it once was, and worse - shack up with the Calgary Sun. Nowadays it's a pile of centrally generated Postmedia news releases with a mountain of ads and flyers. Pretty sad when the free Metro newspaper used to scoop them on stories around town.
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I delivered the Sun for a couple years in my small town. Up at the crack of dawn, get the papers settled into my bag, and off on my bicycle I would go. Got to be a pretty dab hand at tossing them.
When I was in college, I enjoyed spending an hour on my weekends with a coffee and muffin, catching up on the newspapers my upstairs landlady got delivered daily. She'd read them when they were delivered, and then save them for me to read over the weekend.
my dad still gets the Herald and I asked how much he spent. I forget the number he said but I remember being shocked anyone would pay that much for the paper.
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My dad and I would always fight over who got the sports section first. When I finally got it I would cut out articles and paste them in a scrapbook.
I can remember cutting out the daily reports from the 72 Summit series and the same in 74. The scrapbooks are in a box in my basement. Might have to dig them out.
My first job was delivering The Albertan for its last few weeks and then the first issues of The Sun.
Later, I got delivering The Herald which was a much better gig - in the afternoon and after school. Although it was difficult when the paper moved from downtown to Deerfoot. There were weeks of problems getting the paper out on time. Customers would have your phone number and mine would be ringing constantly with people wanting to know where their paper was. They were supposed to have it by 6 at the latest.
On one occasion - on a Saturday, I didn't get my papers until 9:30 pm so ended up delivering papers really late - finishing at 10:30.
A lot of people came to the door when I delivered those and were really nice to me and the calls stopped - they knew I'd get their papers to them when I could.
The Herald were good to us, I think they gave us extra money - something like $10 for the inconvenience and a t-shirt saying "I survived the Herald's move". They also gave us a tour of the new presses which I loved.
My area manager was also an incredibly nice person who really cared for and looked after his carriers.
I loved working for The Herald. The Sun - not so much.
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My family always had a subscription to the Herald, along with the Sunday Sun. I'm sure that played a big part in my interest in current affairs, and in eventually becoming a journalist.
When I moved out on my own, even though I didn't have a lot of money I had a subscription to the Herald, along with the Saturday Globe & Mail.
We stopped getting the paper about 10 years ago. I worry that without those physical papers drifting around the house (and without cable for TV news), my kids will be clueless about news and public affairs. I know they'll pick stuff up online by osmosis, but stumbling across that sort of click-bait isn't the same as routine exposure to genuine news.
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My first ever job was delivering the Herald. It was fun to watch the world waking up as I rode around dropping off papers.
I lived in Ottawa briefly and had a job where I had to sift through a pile of papers and cut out the relevant articles for the Foreign Affairs/International Trade department. Basically the same thing as a paper route.
I agree that the state of the local papers has fallen so low that they're not worth the effort to look at.
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I still subscribe to the Herald 6 days a week...nothing on Sundays. It costs me about $38. a month, and I consider it money well spent. I particularly appreciate the political and financial articles, which helps me keep up to date on the latest current events and thinking.
I believe the day our hard copy news disappears will be a significant loss for our society. There are already far too many people around who are completely ignorant of what is going on around them, or what affects their state in life. Without newspapers I'm afraid there will be plenty more, who simply follow the crowd like unthinking zombies.
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Who else remembers the awesome color comics that came with the Herald on the weekend. It was in book format, same size as normal comics, with a fan made drawing as the cover.
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Remembering the morning newspaper...
