For years,
a daily dose
of news
of columns and debate
reviews of dining, movies,
films and books
has been delivered
and devoured for breakfast
always divided
so I take the art
while my wife take the news
(her subscription — her choice)
and in the evening we swap
often today
the news are already old
but I have matured
to columns and essays.
When I moved in with her
the paper still was a broadsheet
which made reading an art
mixing paper with food
while drinking my tea
but now broadsheets are gone
in favour of tabloid format
(not content)
Our subscription
includes a digital edition
so often I read part
of my dose, on a tablet
but still I always start with
the end and finish
with news
(which then truly is old)
Juan Gris
Punam prompts us at dVerse to write about the newspaper (in any way we want).
January 21, 2025
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Funny how we adjust to news in their various mediums, or does the news adjust to us, growing obsolete by the time we decide to take them up?
I wonder too… but I still read the news even if already know everything.
My grandmother and her mother always started the day with the obituaries. I’m beginning to wonder if they didn’t have the right idea after all. Excellent write.
This resonates, Björn. I always start from the last page and save the editorial for the last. Sometimes I read it at bedtime.
Love it.
We have to share the newspaper, and this is one way of doing it.
I’ve only read (paper) newspapers a few times. I do read some online. I am staying away from the news right now, as there is much upheaval over the election.
i have never enjoyed the newspapers here in England to full of other peoples opinions and not much news.
it is funny how as we mature how what we get from the papers changes
It’s hard to beat paper format
Ha! I love the play at at the end, magnifying the theme….the news jumps, and bites, and by that time it is already not news anymore, and keeps doing so everyday, as life evolves and ages
I used to read the arts first then the editorials, and the news last too. Then there was usually something that would prompt me to write to the letters lol! Such a different time now with the 24 cycle.
Sometimes reading old news is not a bad thing. I enjoyed your travel through reading the times!
I never enjoyed my blackened fingers from reading paper news, but I did enjoy the stillness that came from sitting and reading. Nowadays, I don’t have time for that stillness, so I listen to video clips attached to news just to keep a pulse on what is happening in the world. Great poem, Bjorn!
Yvette M Calleiro 🙂
http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com
I love this amicable and easy division of the paper. It’s tradition, and made me think of the age-old question: do you want the good news or the bad news, first?
I think men are more likely to read news from a newspaper.
luv the progression of newpaper formats and your maturing choices for reading.
Happy you dropped by my blog
much♡love
Print subscriptions to the paper are so expensive now – and many newspapers only publish two or three times a week now – deferring to the digital edition with its bodiless feed of headlines. Simply not the same but that what became of the news we used to await so eagerly to bounce of our front steps.
Our newspaper is still daily and delivered in the morning… and even the digital edition is actually the same as the paper edition, which means that you get the paper also on the few holidays when the paper edition is not published. I like to read the newspaper in the same order digitally as on paper.
You traditionaist. The digital facsimile version of the print edition has held on though I think only for those aging folks who still want the print culture experience only in digital format … I wonder if libraries will go the way of newspapers — digital vaults in server farms no one visits while their physical representations are emptied and then torn down for apartments and fast-food joints.
There’s a sweetness to this, the daily ritual of a couple bookended by the newspaper.
So true, it was a fine art balancing that cup of tea around the broadsheet that was between you and the table.
Even the tabloid size Guardian is a balancing act when eating breakfast, I find Björn – you sum it up well and I like and agree that “I have matured
to columns and essays”…