I have a number of thoughts on this. I'm in my early 50s. My family when I was young had the local paper delivered. It seemed to have some value in keeping up w

I have a number of thoughts on this. I'm in my early 50s. My family when I was young had the local paper delivered. It seemed to have some value in keeping up with local issues. As kids we liked reading the comics. Since I became an adult, I have never subscribed to a newspaper. By the time I lived on my own in the mid-90s, I was already getting more value from the internet than from newspapers, local or otherwise. Furthermore, we had cable news and local news on the TV. There was little reason to get the local (or any paper). Now I subscribe to AppleNews+. I don't love it, but it's a reasonable option. It gives me a host of local news from many different places. I'm seeing articles from small-ish papers in Connecticut, upstate New York, and others while living on the West Coast, in addition to bigger stuff like the Washington Post, the Atlantic, etc. I'm seeing international stuff that I never saw before like papers in Isreal, etc. I despise that there are still ads even though I'm paying for it, but they are the least intrusive and least annoying ones I've ever experienced on news sites, so at least there's that.