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Title: Your usual newspaper
Post by: chrisgixer on 07 July 2013, 00:25:59
Just interested in which paper you tend to read. If at all. Or your opinions of them will do.

Me...

I find the Fail utterly depressing as I'm sure you all do.
Express talks about the weather constantly and little else
The Sun is something of a joke
The Mirror ditto, in fact all Mirror group papers
Observer hard work for a thicko like me ;D

Telegraph and the independent might get my money to see what they are like if I could be bothered. But I can't be arsed with a broadsheet they give me arm ache and are too much agro to fold up. ;D
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Nickbat on 07 July 2013, 00:27:29
None.

Used to get The Telegraph, but get all my news online these days.  :y
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: chrisgixer on 07 July 2013, 00:37:44
Newspaper web sites count the same. Come on, which ones. :)
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Vamps on 07 July 2013, 00:54:04
Nothing here, even when I did it tended to be the local rags, Northern Echo or Evening Gazette. I occasionally buy one, and these are also the sites I would go on if looking for latest local news...... :y :y
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Seth on 07 July 2013, 01:02:12
The Metro ... 'cos there's loads of 'em left on our trains and stations! ;)

Tend to have a shifty whilst having a cuppa during break times.
Not a bad read, all things considered. Some very interesting articles usually. ;)
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 07 July 2013, 01:15:01
OOF!  :)
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: chrisgixer on 07 July 2013, 01:24:05
The Metro ... 'cos there's loads of 'em left on our trains and stations! ;)

Tend to have a shifty whilst having a cuppa during break times.
Not a bad read, all things considered. Some very interesting articles usually. ;)
OOF!  :)
...is not a newspaper, Sir Tigger ;D
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: CaptainZok on 07 July 2013, 02:39:16
Not bought a paper for many years. At one time I used to buy the Sport regularly, I liked knowing Elvis' whereabouts. ;D ;D
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: MR MISTER on 07 July 2013, 07:42:17
Nothing here either, except for the local rag on a Friday. If it wasn't for the great unwashed, who can't wait to get the latest gossip on BB, I reckon quite a few of the tabloids would go belly up.
No bad thing. ::)
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: cnj on 07 July 2013, 08:05:08
enjoyed the sun, when it was first published all those many years ago, before Murdoch and co got hold of it, read the exprees for a while before that again got silly, went then to the times until that stopped dealing with news and got boring, tried the telegraph but as chris said to big to hold and too many big words. various others over many years, but nothing now, all online these days !!
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Shackeng on 07 July 2013, 09:14:08
Times, but it has gone downhill, and is almost as bad as the Mail in its prurient reporting style. :(
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: horsecow on 07 July 2013, 10:26:26
Irish news every day  :y :y
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: razzo on 07 July 2013, 10:50:40
read most of em online, have to say most of the reporters i have worked with over the years should not even be allowed to read a newspaper let alone write for them
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 07 July 2013, 11:02:56
Last time I read (Looked at) a newspaper I think Debbi Ashby was posing in it  ::)
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Rog on 07 July 2013, 11:12:33
Physical Paper

Standard or Metro picked up free

Daily Telegraph on Saturday, I like the Motoring and Travel sections


Online

BBC
Telegraph
Independant

I used to use the Evening Standard a lot but then it got so overloaded with fancy scrolling adverts that it became almost completely unusable.


BUT BUT BUT . . . .  my absolute favourite online news source is . . .

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/

 :y





Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: tigers_gonads on 07 July 2013, 12:10:01
Nothing
There is enough hot air and 'dangle berries' spouted on here to fill my day without shelling out money for the honour  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Elite Pete on 07 July 2013, 12:59:32
I get the Chester Chronicle every Thursday but thats about it
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: ozzycat on 07 July 2013, 13:48:02
i just get the local rag    the mid devon advertiser and herald express boyh once a week witch  is about all i can handle
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: tidla on 07 July 2013, 15:34:30
Not bought a paper for many years. At one time I used to buy the Sport regularly, I liked knowing Elvis' whereabouts. ;D ;D

Did they ever manage to get that bus moved off the moon?
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Rods2 on 07 July 2013, 17:54:40
Used to have the Daily Telegraph delivered, but I cancelled as an economy measure a few years a go at the height of the current economic depression. Then I used to use the Daily Telegraph website, but now it has gone behind a paywall I have looked at others and none comes close to the Telegraph, so at some point I expect I will take out a subscription.
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Rog on 07 July 2013, 20:39:44
Used to have the Daily Telegraph delivered, but I cancelled as an economy measure a few years a go at the height of the current economic depression. Then I used to use the Daily Telegraph website, but now it has gone behind a paywall I have looked at others and none comes close to the Telegraph, so at some point I expect I will take out a subscription.

Pretty much the same as me. But I've never found myself not being able to see what I want to see on their site. Nver been told "you have to pay to go further". So wassup  ???
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 07 July 2013, 22:05:22
I bought a paper today for the first time in ages.... The Fail on Sunday!  ::)

So with civil war in Syria, Egypt on the brink of, the Labour party having a spat with the unions, a plane crash in the US, a train crash in Canada and a Wallaby crash in Australia!!

What did I get on pages 1 to 3?  ???  Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson's relationship breakup and impending divorce......  ::)

It'll probably be another couple of months or so before I buy another....  :-\  :)
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Rog on 07 July 2013, 22:15:00
I bought a paper today for the first time in ages.... The Fail on Sunday!  ::)

So with civil war in Syria, Egypt on the brink of, the Labour party having a spat with the unions, a plane crash in the US, a train crash in Canada and a Wallaby crash in Australia!!

What did I get on pages 1 to 3?  ???  Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson's relationship breakup and impending divorce......  ::)

It'll probably be another couple of months or so before I buy another....  :-\  :)

Keep it simple and informative

Online: BBC and Telegraph or Independant. Will tell you most serious stuff that you need to know

Physical paper: Not easy, but probably Telegraph, a bit right of centre but pretty good with general news

Mail and Express ? Sorry just tatty rags. They used to be well respected, not now.

Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Rods2 on 08 July 2013, 00:49:47
Used to have the Daily Telegraph delivered, but I cancelled as an economy measure a few years a go at the height of the current economic depression. Then I used to use the Daily Telegraph website, but now it has gone behind a paywall I have looked at others and none comes close to the Telegraph, so at some point I expect I will take out a subscription.

Pretty much the same as me. But I've never found myself not being able to see what I want to see on their site. Nver been told "you have to pay to go further". So wassup  ???

Probably where I have got a fixed IP address, so it is easy to track
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: PhilRich on 08 July 2013, 13:35:20
Physical Paper

Standard or Metro picked up free

Daily Telegraph on Saturday, I like the Motoring and Travel sections


Online

BBC
Telegraph
Independant

I used to use the Evening Standard a lot but then it got so overloaded with fancy scrolling adverts that it became almost completely unusable.


BUT BUT BUT . . . .  my absolute favourite online news source is . . .

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/

 :y
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And now mine too! ;D
Thanks for that Rog! :y
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: jereboam on 09 July 2013, 01:38:52
Times, but it has gone downhill, and is almost as bad as the Mail in its prurient reporting style. :(

I agree!  Should never have put news on the front page, let alone gone tabloid.

Been reading it every day for the last 53 years, except when I lived outside the UK and couldn't actually find it every day.  Can't understand the Guardian, can't agree with the Telegraph, can't even read the Independent. 

But life is too short to read the Sunday Times.
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: Kevin Wood on 09 July 2013, 10:37:43
They're all a waste of trees, IMHO. If they printed them on slightly more absorbent paper, I might be able to find a use for them. ::)
Title: Re: Your usual newspaper
Post by: aaronjb on 09 July 2013, 10:47:31
I read the Mail religiously to find out what the Kardashians are up to every day, naturally.

If I read too much actual news I'd read more things like this and then I'd be putting up razor wire: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-23226119 (that's the road behind mine).. ;D