You Don’t Need a Newspaper, Part One
September 18th 2006 05:33
If you’re looking at expenses to cut out of your life, one of the first places to cut is newspaper usage.
To begin with, let’s examine what a newspaper brings you:
-National News
-Local News
-Sports
-Opinion
-Weather Reports
-Stock Market/Business News
-Lifestyle Articles
-Classified Ads
-Advertisements
Now, if you’re reading this blog post, you can replace all of this. There are websites covering most of these topics and the newspapers even have websites where you can get most (if not all) of this information at no cost. In addition to your newspaper’s website, here are some possible recommendations for replacements for the newspaper. There are other alternatives that you find may work better for you, here I’m just listing a few sites that make good starting points.
National and Local News:
One of the best is Google News, which allows you to search a large number of news sources, as well as seeing what some of the top reported stories are.
Google News is also nice for local stories because it indexes your local TV stations, which provide news summaries for all the stories they do. Once you find the home pages of your local news stations along with your newspaper, you’re going to be able to stay well-informed on national and local issues.
Memorandum provides links to the most discussed stories on Blogs.
Sports:
ESPN or Fox Sports provide excellent coverage of the world of sports.
Opinion:
If you need a place to start, I’d recommend the Drudge Report. While Matt Drudge is best known for his nose for scandals, he also maintains one of the finest databases of opinion columnists out there. Also, Google News is helpful for this as well. If you’re looking for opinions on a Tax Bill, type in the name of the bill into Google’s search field and it will pull not only news pieces, but also opinion.
Weather Reports:
The Weather Channel or the local news can fill this need. Online, there’s also Yahoo Weather.
Stock Market/Business News:
Yahoo Finance and MSN Money are both great sources of financial information.
Lifestyle Articles:
Google News will often pull up articles if you’re looking to find out about a certain topic such as Cancer Survivors. If you’re looking for a regular variety of human interests and lifestyle stories, it may make sense to subscribe to a magazine like Guideposts or Reader’s Digest. It’s less expensive to pay for a $20-$30 annual subscription rather than paying $15 a month for the entire year.
Tomorrow, we’ll turn to replacing Classified Ads and Advertisements.
To begin with, let’s examine what a newspaper brings you:
-National News
-Local News
-Sports
-Opinion
-Weather Reports
-Stock Market/Business News
-Lifestyle Articles
-Classified Ads
-Advertisements
Now, if you’re reading this blog post, you can replace all of this. There are websites covering most of these topics and the newspapers even have websites where you can get most (if not all) of this information at no cost. In addition to your newspaper’s website, here are some possible recommendations for replacements for the newspaper. There are other alternatives that you find may work better for you, here I’m just listing a few sites that make good starting points.
National and Local News:
One of the best is Google News, which allows you to search a large number of news sources, as well as seeing what some of the top reported stories are.
Google News is also nice for local stories because it indexes your local TV stations, which provide news summaries for all the stories they do. Once you find the home pages of your local news stations along with your newspaper, you’re going to be able to stay well-informed on national and local issues.
Memorandum provides links to the most discussed stories on Blogs.
Sports:
ESPN or Fox Sports provide excellent coverage of the world of sports.
Opinion:
If you need a place to start, I’d recommend the Drudge Report. While Matt Drudge is best known for his nose for scandals, he also maintains one of the finest databases of opinion columnists out there. Also, Google News is helpful for this as well. If you’re looking for opinions on a Tax Bill, type in the name of the bill into Google’s search field and it will pull not only news pieces, but also opinion.
Weather Reports:
The Weather Channel or the local news can fill this need. Online, there’s also Yahoo Weather.
Stock Market/Business News:
Yahoo Finance and MSN Money are both great sources of financial information.
Lifestyle Articles:
Google News will often pull up articles if you’re looking to find out about a certain topic such as Cancer Survivors. If you’re looking for a regular variety of human interests and lifestyle stories, it may make sense to subscribe to a magazine like Guideposts or Reader’s Digest. It’s less expensive to pay for a $20-$30 annual subscription rather than paying $15 a month for the entire year.
Tomorrow, we’ll turn to replacing Classified Ads and Advertisements.
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