I suspect that as content delivery continues to change people will move towards different decorative accessories as currently popular trends progress.

There may be some folks that accessorize with newspapers, but if they do it’s likely they are just lazy about throwing them away.

I typically pass several newspaper stands a day, and I almost always give the exposed upper fold of the front page a cursory look as I walk by, almost as if I’m glancing through a passing website. Newspapers here in the U.S. really aren’t giving much in the way of news. I can and generally do get far more current, relevant and accurate information from a few minutes online than I can by looking through a newspaper. In the U.S. at least, much of the actual newspaper content is lacking in personal relevance.

I got over the idea of collecting books on shelves a long time ago. Since watching a number of episodes of the TV show “Hoarders” I’ve been on a bit of a personal crusade especially in the past year to kill the clutter. I’ll pay for digital content to consume, not to physically collect.