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Marriott stopped it as a "required" policy, perhaps, but many Marriott-family hotels still carry the paper, just don't deliver (usually keep it on the lobby desk, in some cases also in the lounge).
Maybe they should mimic Choice Hotels? Choice is in a similar position (no requirement any more, but many hotels still carry the paper), but every morning that I'm in a Choice hotel in the USA I get an email offering me a free online USA Today read (which otherwise requires a paid subscription to read the print version online).
Ie, in exchange for "getting rid of" the print version, why can't they offer an electronic version? (You can delete the email if you don't care.)
The newspapers cost the hotel next to nothing. A full-service should have newspapers and, at the minimum, deliver upon request.
Every British hotel I have ever stayed at has specifically asked me at check-in if I want a newspaper and, if so, which one. The newspaper is then delivered early morning.
That's much, much more logical than dumping hundreds of newspapers at doors. Of course, it also makes it more difficult for USA Today to fudge its circulation numbers by cutting a deal with a hotel chain to spam customers with daily copies.
Often I grab the newspaper on my way out to read in the Uber car or shuttle bus to the airport.