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What Newspapers do you read?
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I was going to do this as a poll but that would be pretty inaccurate seeing as you can only vote once and most people read more than one newspaper.
Of the national dailies, I read the Guardian and skim over the Times. I also read my mum's Daily Mail but that's more out of a morbid facination with it's ridiculous arguments (it also has a pretty easy crossword lol). During the week I also read a local newspaper that circulates N.Ireland and on Sundays I read the Sunday Times just.
Of the national dailies, I read the Guardian and skim over the Times. I also read my mum's Daily Mail but that's more out of a morbid facination with it's ridiculous arguments (it also has a pretty easy crossword lol). During the week I also read a local newspaper that circulates N.Ireland and on Sundays I read the Sunday Times just.
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I read the guardian on line, and scan the times and others if an interesting story comes up. I am on some topic specific emailing mailing list (such as drugs and alcohol use), use the BBC web site or radio 4
read the local paper (for a laugh - owned by the daily mail group...)
the saturday times and the observer sometimes on a sunday
this site also is useful/amazing
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml
and I do use it a lot.
I also read the Independent and Telegraph.
If the Daily Mirror's such a gutter tabloid how come it's been voted Newspaper of the Year two years on the trot as well as won a clutch of awards for its journalism and photography?
I'm not going to reheat that whole argument about tabloids/broadsheets but I do wish people would not be so quick to judge newspapers they haven't read.
I read the Daily Mirror, in case it isn't totally obvious by now.
My local paper on a Friday to find out how many shootings have recently taken place. lol. No read that for club listings.
Yes, let's not start the tabloids vs. broadsheets argument again. :yeees:
Why so irate? Who says I haven't read the Daily Mirror?
I dislike tabloids because they are low-brow and are read by low-brow people. One of the tabloids had a picture of the PM on holiday. How is that newsworthy? Just because some dopey prick/bitch gets a kick out of reading about celebrities? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :cool:
On Sundays I buy the Observer and the Times.
And obviously not a newspaper but I have a subscription to Private Eye as well.
You do.
Nice how you can just judge several million people like that. I'm not low-brow and I read the tabloids how many other millions have you got wrong there?
Ummm maybe because for the whole of the Prime Minister's holiday he was dogged by the scandal being exposed by the Hutton Inquiry and everyone was wondering how he'll react to it tomorrow. Clearly that "dopey prick/bitch" has a greater sense of what's newsworthy than you do. Perhaps if you got your smiley's eyes to focus in one place and remove the shades you'd be able to see what utter crap you talk not just in this thread but in all of them.
No I didn't. Make sustantiated claims in future......
I can judge as I feel it's the truth. Why am I wrong in judging? People who read tabloids ARE low-brow.
Yet showing pictures of other celebrities on holiday all the time IS newsworthy? It's not. It's simply the public's 'desire' to know about the lives of celebrities.
I started off reading the Telegraph, because my mum had tokens to get about 3 months free copies of it. But I found I couldn't read past the front page. So I tried different papers, and eventually settled on the Guardian.
This was about the same time as I was starting to become politically aware. So I'm not sure which infuenced which really. But I find the Guardian very readable.
I also like the Metro
Oh, I love the irony in that statement...
Says the Daily Mail reader.
There is little less "high-brow" than elitistsm.
Personally I will read any paper I can get my hands on, particularly if I don't have to pay for it. I don't care if it is tabloid, broadsheet or local.
I'm another Private Eye reader too
Dailies: Grauniad/Indie
Weekend: Saturday: Indie
Sunday: Observer
My god i'm a posh prick.
Mostly I read websites for my news, though...bbc news, and some computing "industry news" ones like silicon.com, computing.co.uk
I also like to read Barbara Amiels editorials.
On Sundays I read the Sunday Times , which has a very good News Review section.
Occasioally I get the Daily Mail for comedy value.
Really? I thought you were more intelligent than that , if you want a leftist opinion , then read The Guardian surely?
Goes off to the garage to buy the Guardian
Edited to add the only things they had left were the Mail and the Sport :yeees:
Low Brow? Oh right so you're really Cultured?
Maybe some people just want a quick read and don't like their life to be dominated by huge newspaper and have other things to do.
Tabloid readers generally know that they are full of s*** celeb stories i.e., 'Posh Spice buys a hat' and untrue rumours.
But this doesn't make all the readers stupid.
I know that anything I read may not be true and aren't really that excited by celebrity stories, I buy the Sun, if I want other opinions on news then I will have a look round other newspapers websites i.e., The Guardian (who's 'special reports' on topics I happen to think are very good), & Reuters.
Maybe some people don't want everything to be all doom & gloom and don't want to take things too seriously every second.
Because you are wrong. I read the tabloids and am not low-brow, as MoK said you read the Daily Mail - you may be low brow but don't pass off that judgement on the rest of us tabloid readers.
Anymore than the broadsheets have celebrity columnists, interviews with celebrities, film and book reviews. Fact is Mono that all the newspapers worship at the alter of celebrity in one way or another.
i get me news off teletext, tv news, radion news and sometimes the net
if i did wish to read a paper it would be on a bus and a train and i cannot stand tabloids and on buses and trains it is too difficult to manage broadsheets
so therefore, for both these reaosns, i read none
I think there was a compliment in there somewhere so thanks.
I'm not saying the Daily Mirror is perfect - I'd rather pay more for the newspaper and get rid of all the adverts and maybe it doesn't suit what I would like to see exactly but I have read all of the newspapers at one time or another and it is the best one for me that I have found.
Fact is why because I'm reasonably intelligent should I have to give up things I like? Everyone has some sort of "low-brow" escapism even the intelligent people - can the people on here say that they have never watched ITV for example? Or that they have never listened to anything in the charts? Or that they have never watched a "low-brow" Hollywood movie? My point is all these things are individual choices and can't be said to reflect on the individual's intelligence. The judging of people on the newspapers they read is a hang over from the days of extreme class division and Britain has moved on since them, those who want to judge me because I read a tabloid should move on too.
indie online
new statesman
I'm not 'cultured' but what's wrong in that? Nothing in my estimation.
I reckon they ARe stupid. End of story. :cool:
I will read any paper that my father rarely buys which usually consists of 'The Sun', 'The Mirror' or 'Daily Mail'. I've never read a broadsheet except when they are left on trains which is a shame because I quite like them.
Why don't you buy one for yourself then?
My mom doesn't want a paper at home in the weekdays as it end up in chaos when nobody is ready on time, cause the paper is distracting.
Apart from that I usually read internet newspapers. Differing from day to day. Depends on what's happened, and where.
Ooh! And even though it's not a paper but a magazine I catch up with Time and Newsweek. I really like those. Got a good blend of articles from the US and Europe, and same goes for journalists. Usually cover the stuff that interests me.
So everyone of the Sun/mail/mirror etc's millions of readers are stupid.
Always great to see how you back up your ridiculous statements!
:rolleyes:
those letters are brill, how anyone has the time to bother to reply to the crap letters still amazes me
cant wait tube every morning from september for uni
odd though,feels like ur day iant made if u cant read metro in morning
To buy a cheap paper each day, I'm looking at say 30p with which if I've saved up for 8 days I'd have enough to buy a £2.10 glossy magazines so I can keep up with all the trends and all the latest gossip. Which I cannot give up. Though I would like to have the option of both...
In my experience, yes.
I take offence at that comment.
What gives YOU the right to call me a dopey bitch ? and also the other females who read this stuff. Also calling the males dopey pricks because they read certain newspapers.
Reading a newspaper is all about choice, you CHOOSE to read what YOU like not what other people WANT you to read and you certainly dont call them a dopey bitch because they read a newspaper that you do not like for whatever reason :rolleyes: