<p>Which do you think is the best to subscribe to for a family with two teenagers who fight over the newspaper? We’ve taken the Times for years but are wondering about switching to WSJ. Maybe WSJ five days a week and then the Times on Sunday? We do take the local paper, as well. I couldn’t live without the NY Times Tuesday Science section and recipes and movie reviews on Friday, though. And we’re NOT going to take three papers.</p>
<p>How lucky you are that your kids fight over the newspaper!!! WSJ is great for business news, and we love personal journal and marketplace, but you’d have to pull me out kicking and screaming to take away the NY Times…No comparison in terms of world and local news, and editorials (even though it does slant towards the uber-liberal…fine with me)…I think, personally, I could live without our daily local and reduce that to just Sunday when my d is graduated (since I won’t be looking for her sports results anymore…)…but for now, 3 papers in our house is what it is…</p>
<p>I don’t remember how I went about it, but I get the NYTimes online. Most stories are available without a Times Select subscription now.</p>
<p>But it is nice to have the print version lying around. Just get all three and be done with it.</p>
<p>IMO, it depends on two things: (1) your political perspective (I can’t read WSJ editorials without screaming outloud) and (2) how much real news you want. I think you get more news in the NYT, more personal observations and reviews in the WSJ.</p>
<p>I know i wouldn’t want to get up on Sunday without my NYT waiting for me. No contest here.</p>
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<li>You can read most of the Times online without a subscription, but I don’t know if the same is true with the WSJ. Maybe someone else knows.</li>
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<p>but…</p>
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<li>The WSJ is almost entirely focused on business, finance, economics, and related issues. I see it like a huge Business section as opposed to a full newspaper with lots of subjects. </li>
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<p>If that’s the part your family is most interested in, go for the Wall Street Journal. If you want something with a wider scope, though, and don’t mind the liberal slant, stick with the NY Times.</p>
<p>I read both when I have the time. I managed to get a free WSJ subscription, and I look at the Times online. You can’t beat the WSJ for business, but I need another source to get information on everything else going on. I’d suggest staying with the NY Times if you like it and have a wide variety of interests, which it sounds like you do.</p>
<p>The Week magazine.</p>
<p>The Enquirer</p>
<p>I know you don’t want three subscriptions, but The Economist is a great magazine that may be worth looking into.</p>
<p>We get the journal 6 days per week and the Sunday NYT. Love most of the journal including the new personal journal section. Hate the editiorials but I just ignore that section. Can’t live without the Sunday NYT. We also get our local city daily newspaper. We get different things from each newspaper…wouldn’t give up any of them. Tried daily NYT for a while…too much…just not enough time to get through 3 papers each day. And my dog was getting tired of fetching them all!
Both my H and I are heavy newspaper readers…both our families are the same. My s is getting there…does it when he has time but is usually to busy to keep up at school. If I had to choose one for him, I’m guessing it would be the NYT - just because there’s more variety.</p>
<p>The NYT has a student subscription rate. Put that paper in the kids’ names, then you can go for three papers.</p>
<p>I second The Week magazine (which I get). But I also get the Sunday NYT and pay for the WSJ online. And The Atlantic Monthly. And the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.</p>
<p>I’m a News Junkie, I guess. (My home page is Google News.)</p>
<p>Expose yourself to a variety of media. Dependency on a single source of information only leads to enforcement of personal opinions and ignorance.</p>
<p>BBC, NYT, DR, NR, MF, MSNBC, Fox News (yes, I know), CNN, Time, etc…</p>
<p>Remember, the vast majority of stateside publication of international news is largely filtered and often spun to cooperate agenda.</p>
<p>Fight for media native to your interested country. You’ll find more genuine articles from the sources native to chosen country rather than regurgitated and laundry-run Americanized sources.</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>The Washington Post?</p>
<p>The Times–because it offers broader coverage of a variety of subjects and is, after all and after all these years, the newspaper of record. The WSJ is interesting as a second paper and sometimes has terrific in-depth coverage of specific issues, but I would not think of it as the primary paper for a household.</p>
<p>Some great advice - knew I could count on CC parents. </p>
<p>We already take the Economist for the person who recommended that. It is superb. Also the Atlantic, Scientific American, Wilson Quarterly (kind of obscure but really good), Film Comment (that one gets fought over), New Yorker, Smithsonian, and most important of all InStyle! I’m going to look into the student subscription rate for the NY Times and add the WSJ five days a week. My neighbors – most of whom only take the local if that – are aghast at the huge mound of my recycling each week. Oh well.</p>
<p>The WSJ also has a student rate. I buy my college aged son a subscription every year.</p>