Just to add my two cents as one of those millennials.

I admit that I do not subscribe to a daily newspaper (more because I don’t have the time in my day to read the paper, tend to get behind and end up just recycling days worth of news gone unread).

I don’t often visit the homepages of any of our major papers. I might skim the homepage of the Star, but I’ve found less and less worth actually clicking on to read beyond the headlines.

More often than not, I click through Twitter links I see in my timeline. But again, that too depends on how busy my day is. If I’m not active on Twitter because my day is busy with things going on “IRL”, well then I’ll miss the news that way too.

I try to watch the local 6 p.m. news, but that’s assuming I’m home in time for it.

Despite all this, I recently learned how important it is to consume news the old fashioned way.

I was out of the country and, for the most part, disconnected when the Boston Marathon happened. On the two major news days (the Monday it happened, and the Friday Boston was shut down), social media was unable to help me understand what was going on. CNN was even worse.

I wanted a newspaper like nobody’s business that week to wrap up the day’s events, add some context and help me feel I knew what was going on. Even today, weeks later, I know that event is something I don’t fully understand because I wasn’t able to digest the news the old fashioned way.

One clarification, The Globe’s not asking for “volunteers for another 12-week unpaid furlough this summer,” but rather it’s created a program for people to take unpaid days during the summer downtime for those who want to pad their paid vacation time. The goal is to save costs, of course, but it’s a very, very different situation than last year.

This commentary is quite apropos.