Before the Internet obtaining your news was a little different. You had to be a journalist with sources to create it and you had to a buy or borrow a 100 page throw away pamphlet to obtain it.
Some of us were fortunate enough to have the paper delivered directly to our doors while others had to share with others at Barbershops, Auto Mechanics, Doctors Offices and Coffee Shops. The latter was not the most cleanliest of delivery systems.
Kids these Days, they will never know the struggle.