Never without a newspaper, until now Stopped subscribing after the annual rate had practically doubled
Posted by CD • 05/20/09 • 8:45pm
My younger daughter, Claire Reed Davaz McGowan is almost 28-years-old and she’s had home delivery of a daily newspaper for her entire life, until last week.
The first paper she read was the Missoulian, as a little Montana kid.
Yeah, maybe it was the comics in the beginning, but newspapers started to matter to her at an early age.
She grew up in Eugene reading The Register-Guard. (Full disclosure: I’m the paper’s deputy managing editor).
When she left home at 17 to go to the University of Oregon, I covered the cost of her subscription to The Register-Guard because reading a newspaper was important to her and she needed the extra cash.
When she left town in 2007 to move to Philadelphia she subscribed to the Inquirer with her own money.
Last week she learned that her annual subscription rate had practically doubled to $290.
She quit.
Her mom said she was “upset.”
She’s gotten up in the morning to read a daily newspaper for her WHOLE life, until now.
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