Media Watch: How much would you pay for the El Paso Times?

Yesterday, we wrote in our blog about some confusion over the price of the El Paso Times. A few papers were marked at 75 cents, while many were still priced at 50 cents. We interrupted a few coffee breaks and errand-running to ask El Pasoans how much they would pay for a weekday issue of the El Paso Times.

Some said they would pay 50 to 75 cents for an issue, some said up to $1, while others admitted that they don’t buy or subscribe to a daily paper and get much of their news on the radio or online. “I completely lost track of how much a daily paper costs,” said UTEP language and linguistics assistant professor Pedro Perez del Solar, 42.

Others only purchase the Sunday paper, like waitress Imelda Martinez, 52: “I never buy a daily paper. Everyday I read the paper they have at work.”