They did, but they were definitely more boring than most people. You’d have to be married to someone for a few years before the paper was a reasonable alternative.
You know there’s a difference. Nowadays, many people are glued to their phones because of addictive apps like TikTok and Instagram. I can’t imagine that newspapers had the same effect.
I dunno, there are a lot of tv shows and movies from the pre-internet era that depict parents lost in their newspapers and totally oblivious to what their kids are doing.
Y’all forgot that newspapers and magazines used to exist, huh?
They did, but they were definitely more boring than most people. You’d have to be married to someone for a few years before the paper was a reasonable alternative.
You know there’s a difference. Nowadays, many people are glued to their phones because of addictive apps like TikTok and Instagram. I can’t imagine that newspapers had the same effect.
I dunno, there are a lot of tv shows and movies from the pre-internet era that depict parents lost in their newspapers and totally oblivious to what their kids are doing.
Having grown up in this era, I can say with 100% certainty that this was the case.