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I get the local paper delivered daily and spend 1-2 hours reading it each day. I also check news on the internet so I guess I'm a news junkie. I still read the local paper daily though because it's a decently written/edited paper. And I still like the experience of reading a paper because there's a sense of "now I'm caught up with all relevant current events after reading the paper from cover to cover" that I don't get from reading news on the internet. With the internet, there's a tendency to pick and choose, and then drill down (usually chasing threads that leads to other threads) - the internet great for in-depth research and analysis on a particular subject but I don't always come way from it with a feeling that I'm aware of generally things that are going on in the world. With the newspaper, there's a explicit beginning and end to the experience that I guess I like - it forces a pace and depth of intelligence gathering that works for me. It probably doesn't work for everybody, and it's only as good as the editors and writers of the paper. But in my case, it works for me.
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