What newspapers do you normally read

[Senex]

That's one of my (sadistic) pleasures in reading the Telegraph. Every week there are frantic right-wing utterings that show how desperate the right-wingers are about the government's newfound ineffectuality.

And one of my (sadistic) pleasures in reading the (on-line) Guardian is to see the columnists' writings and see just how utterly intolerant and basically nasty those enthusiasts of and for the left are. It seems we balance each other out!

 

[bb21]

The extreme left and the extreme right are just as bad as each other. I'd much rather they just find a room and smooch off together rather than pollute the air in this world.

There. Settled. Can we move on from this point-scoring bitchiness please.

 

[zuriblue]

I read the Guardian online plus occasionally the Independent, for the dead tree press I read the Tages Anzeiger.

 

[A Challenge]

Can't we select more than one?

 

[Barn]

The extreme left and the extreme right are just as bad as each other. I'd much rather they just find a room and smooch off together rather than pollute the air in this world.

There. Settled. Can we move on from this point-scoring bitchiness please.

It's actually not so much the politics pieces that are funny in the Guardian, it's the ones fretting over whether quinoa is environmentally friendly enough, etc.

Personally I prefer to read partial left and partial right news sources and get my balance that way, rather than trying to rely on allegedly impartial news which is actually very difficult to achieve.

 

[backontrack]

The i, with a Guardian on Saturdays.

 

[Railops]

Anybody admit to handing over cash to the Guardian seeing as it's continually begging?

I see the American operation has just sacked nearly half it's staff.

 

[takno]

Anybody admit to handing over cash to the Guardian seeing as it's continually begging?

I see the American operation has just sacked nearly half it's staff.

I pay money to the Guardian. I quite like the business model of allowing free access but then politely asking people to pay if they value the content, rather than demanding a subscription upfront. Don't know why that would count as an admission.

The American operation at that scale was a nice experiment, and trying to grow it accounted for a fair proportion of the recent losses. In order to succeed it depended on online ad-rates continuing at the levels they were at. Between the rise of mobile and ad-blockers the amount of revenue available for ads which aren't insanely instrusive has dropped horribly in the last few years, and Facebook and other intermediaries have mopped up most of what was left. Given that the US operation still didn't really have the staffing or coverage to get a lot of subscription revenue it was basically doomed. Cutting the operation back closer to the level you would expect from a news website / foreign paper was the sensible option.

 

[cf111]

Since the Independent stopped being published as a newspaper I haven't bought one regularly but I will buy The Press & Journal and the Inverness Courier on occasion.

 

[AY1975]

I mainly buy the Morning Star and the New European, and occasionally the i.

 

[Hornet]

The Irish Independent, Irish Daily Mirror and Dublin Evening Herald for me. On the odd occasion I look at the Daily Express and Guardian on line for their comedy value, and the rantings of many of their delusional contributors. I refuse to give the Mail and Sun the time of day, and I have a particular hatred of the Daily Star.

 

[yorksrob]

I used to enjoy The Times but it's been going up in increments of 20p of late, and the current price of £1.60 is too much.

I've always believed in paying for content because journalism is a profession, however there is a limit.

 

[richw]

Whatever I find in the cab of my van that the previous driver forgot to get rid of! Can’t remember last time I bought one myself.

 

[DarloRich]

I read the metro if there's a spare copy on the bus.

Other than that, I read none.

that is none then The Metro isnt a newspaper

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Certainly - the "Sub- Standard" really is not worth picking up anymore since Osborne became editor - hardly worth picking up anyway before that.

The Weds edition is sickening for the property inserts - especially the "day in the life" of some aspirant estate agent , flogging off even more properties to dodgy investment people in places like Mayfair ......the nadir was a piece on "move to Deptford" - view our flats and we will give you a cocktail served in a miniature bespoke teapot.....yeah right - down there in a flash....

 

[ChiefPlanner]

that is none then The Metro isnt a newspaper

See my comments on the Standard......

 

[Ianno87]

I basically just actively read the Evening Standard now.

Used to pick up the Metro regularly, but gave up a while back (unless one happens to be discarded nearby) as it is a pretty crap piece of journalism for the most part.

I very, very rarely buy mainstream 'morning' papers (only if I've got a long flight or something), as they're basically just mouthpieces to regurgitate readers' own opinions back at themselves.

 

[TheNewNo2]

I don't read actual physical newspapers, but I have digital subscriptions fo the Washington Post and the Guardian.

 

[43021HST]

Certainly - the "Sub- Standard" really is not worth picking up anymore since Osborne became editor - hardly worth picking up anyway before that.

The Weds edition is sickening for the property inserts - especially the "day in the life" of some aspirant estate agent , flogging off even more properties to dodgy investment people in places like Mayfair ......the nadir was a piece on "move to Deptford" - view our flats and we will give you a cocktail served in a miniature bespoke teapot.....yeah right - down there in a flash....

I'd love to hear the types of people the paper think's they're interesting by including these vapid property segments, travelled on a train recently full of disgarded Evening lack of Standards Property segments.

It's always been pretty biased but the paper has become nothing short of a laughing stock in recent years. Tonights 'Corbyn, man of the people' Headline was so unashamedly biased, it was very patronising. No wonder people just stare at their phones on the train.

 

[Bald Rick]

Certainly - the "Sub- Standard" really is not worth picking up anymore since Osborne became editor - hardly worth picking up anyway before that.

The Weds edition is sickening for the property inserts - especially the "day in the life" of some aspirant estate agent , flogging off even more properties to dodgy investment people in places like Mayfair ......the nadir was a piece on "move to Deptford" - view our flats and we will give you a cocktail served in a miniature bespoke teapot.....yeah right - down there in a flash....

You seem to know it well guv!

 

[Bald Rick]

I will read anything, but usually it's the Standard, which I can do cover to cover from Blackfriars to St Albans. I think the city pages and sport are both reasonably good. Since Georgie-boy took over it has certainly become more anti Brexit (the previous editor was a rampant 'Leaver'), and also takes every opportunity to have a dig at Corbyn. However the Cara Delevigne picture count has reduced by about 75%.

What I certainly will not read is the Express or Mail. Absolute rags, particularly the former. A lady in front of me at the supermarket queue last Sunday had one, and I noticed it had a large red circle on the banner front with "NOW 20p" in big yellow letters. In much smaller letters beneath, which I would be surprised if my fellow shopper could read, it said "cheaper than the Mail". Ie £1.20 rather than £1.40. I'd say that's false advertising.

 

[trainmania100]

I use metro.co.uk for my main source of news

 

[Howardh]

Guardian as it's free on-line; otherwise I wouldn't be reading any - save for links you get in forums etc.

 

[fowler9]

The Metro is basically the more gaudy articles from the Daily Heil.

 

[cactustwirly]

I've recently got into the Sky News website, it has some good opinion pieces.

I also read the BBC news and Guardian websites (opinions need to be taken with a large pinch of salt)

The Times is probably the best newspaper, but it's a bit too expensive and the website is hidden behind a paywall

 

[AM9]

... I very, very rarely buy mainstream 'morning' papers (only if I've got a long flight or something), as they're basically just mouthpieces to regurgitate readers' own opinions back at themselves.

Which is just why I like to take the Telegraph and the Times. It's very interesting to read the rants from leavers there (particularly the Torygraph), getting increasingly frustrated because the May government isn't 'just doing it' in the way that they personally want.

 

[PeterY]

I never buy them. I get all the news I need off of the internet.

If I'm travelling around I'll glance though the Metro.

If I'm in a cafe and there's one lying around I may look at one, which is usually The Sun. Dreadful newspaper though.

 

[fowler9]

I never buy them. I get all the news I need off of the internet.

If I'm travelling around I'll glance though the Metro.

If I'm in a cafe and there's one lying around I may look at one, which is usually The Sun. Dreadful newspaper though.

The Metro is basically the Daily Mail which is hardly better than the Sun.

 

[Bevan Price]

The Metro is basically the Daily Mail which is hardly better than the Sun.

Except that they are not owned by M**doch.

 

[Bevan Price]

I read the free weekly St. Helens Star - when they bother to deliver it. I look at Metro if there is a copy on the bus, but there is little real news in it - I have very little interest in the minor personalities or nonentities that they seem to think are "important / celebrities" - and I couldn't care less if some actor / singer / politician is ****ing someone who is not their spouse / partner / regular date, etc.