We are luckier than Concretionist – for now. Our small city’s local paper still has actual local news – on weekdays only. I believe it is still an option to get a physical delivery, but the online publication – via the “digital replica” allows me to read through it in the same way as (If they would organize the actual website differently, I would just read it there…) I am not sorry to no longer have stacks of old newspapers saved for forgotten reasons…
Some of us LIKE bagpipes – although I concede that at close range in a city ‘canyon’ it might be a bit much…