Which newspapers do you buy?

[FridgeMagnet]

Guardian and the Morning Star. I have dozens of RSS feeds for other news on the go though.

When I'm on the loo I play games on my phone, or the DS if I can sneak it in; I don't read the paper.

 

[Pickman's model]

Guardian and the Morning Star. I have dozens of RSS feeds for other news on the go though.

When I'm on the loo I play games on my phone, or the DS if I can sneak it in; I don't read the paper.

ds? daily sport?

 

[Pickman's model]

telegraph
an phoblacht

 

[In Bloom]

The Indy, Freedom (though that's not a daily, so it doesn't really count) and occaisionally the Morningstar or the Grauniad

 

[oneflewover]

It was always The Independent but now it's the The Guardian because it's only 20p with all the tokens I manged to aquire on the berliner launch.

 

[Pickman's model]

It was always The Independent but now it's the The Guardian because it's only 20p with all the tokens I manged to aquire on the berliner launch.

you read the liberal-fascist paper just because it's cheap?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

ds? daily sport?

 

[WasGeri]

I read the Bristol Evening Post most days (we get it at work and I buy it myself on Saturdays) and if I buy a national paper it's usually the Mirror. At weekends butchersapron usually buys The Guardian and the Observer, but I only read the magazines and the travel supplement.

 

[Groucho]

I occassionally buy the Guardian, occassionally buy the Indy, occassionally buy the Sunday Telegraph, very occassionally FT, occassionally buy the Morning Star.

In the trains and tubes I pick up whatever - Metro, ES, Mail, Sun etc.

Regularly receive my special offer full spectrum Socialist Worker, Socialist Review and International Socialism journal. Sometimes buy Red Pepper, New Left Review, Private Eye. Sometimes read my sisters' Fortean Times.

Receive e-mail alerts from the BBC. Occasionally check Al Jazeera on line.

Watch BBC News 24.

The Sunday Telegraph has the best and most accurate horroscopes. The Guardian and the Metro the best cartoons. I don't read the sports pages. FT has the best coloured paper.

OOh it's all soooo fascinating.

 

[JTG]

Indy, every day. Usually manage to get through most of it at work if we aint too busy. Like it 'cos it manages to cover things other than what every single other paper is on about and talks about things I happen to believe are the most important atm (like the impending end of life on earth as we know it).

Guardian and Observer make me shout too much and it makes krs nervous if I get too shouty at home. Smug papers for smug twats.

All the others just right wing bilge.

Bristol Evening Post is about as well written as a first year English essay but sometimes get it to see how few jobs there are that actually appeal to me.

 

[Fledgling]

Dislike almost all newspapers although can't comment on lcal/regional newspapers. National papers are not to my liking.

Telegrpah-passable but a bit too Tory
Times-passable at best but far too Murdoch
Independent-Is there anything in it? Badly wirtten, boring, full of topics no one else cares about, columnists suck.
Grauniad-idealistic nonsense

Sun-scum
Mirror-dull and lacking any good articles
Mail-could I really begin to describe my hatred for its populist ranting "common sense, voice of the silent majority" rubbish?

Prefer magazines, Spectators is witty and the Economist's got a good bit of European coverage.

 

[JTG]

Independent - full of topics no one else cares about,

That's the trouble with the world imho, not the Indy.

 

[Fledgling]

I think when the Indy comments for days on end about electoral reform or cormorants in Anglessey it lets itself down because these issues are not pressing enough to many people. There are things I care about but am in a minority for doing so, I'd be a bit worried if a national newspaper pandered to one of my minor political desires rather than exposing a major scandal in government. The Indy concentrates on too many general issues with nice colour maps on the front, national newspapers I feel look a bit daft when they look into minority political ideas a tthe expense of exposing our pathetic government, especially when there is so much material to hit them with.

 

[JTG]

They spent months exposing the govt over the war.

Tbh, holding up the fact that the world is headed for cataclysmic environmental disaster which threatens every one of us is just a tad more important than Westminster tittle tattle. But hey, just my view.

 

[Fledgling]

Most newspapers spent a long time opposing the war, in fact so did a large part of the population, so this was clearly a pressing issue for many people and I would even give the Guardian credit for its coverage during 2003 before the war. But the Indy just can't get the balance right, on a small news day it seems to bring out articles which are too vague and about issues not really in the public conscience. There is a serious environmental threat, in fact far more serious than most politicians will ever admit but the Indy doesn't seem to look at this very well and concentrates on these issues when people are more preoccupied with other ideas, rather than seizing on environmental politics precisely when it will have an impact. Exposing scnadal is important (I was talking chiefly about spending and costs in government, which perhaps is overshadowed smewhaty by tittle tattle, a shame).But the Indy I feel doesn't use its information a the right time.

 

[JTG]

Oh alright. *shrugs*

They still actually talk about these issues when nobody else does. Most of the other papers sort of stopped bothering with anti war stuff when it started, the Indy's carried on saying 'actually, it's a load of old bollocks innit?'.

Didn't see many other papers forcibly pointing out the patently ridiculous result of the General Election.

Tbh, I'd rather read an Indy story about the melting of the polar ice caps than Jude Law or whatever else the other papers are reporting on that day and the fact other people don't care is indicative of what the problem is.

imho.

Besides, Robert Fisk writes in the Indy which makes it better than any other paper ever.

 

[Fledgling]

Oh alright. *shrugs*


Didn't see many other papers forcibly pointing out the patently ridiculous result of the General Election.

Tbh, I'd rather read an Indy story about the melting of the polar ice caps than Jude Law or whatever else the other papers are reporting on that day and the fact other people don't care is indicative of what the problem is.

imho.

Besides, Robert Fisk writes in the Indy which makes it better than any other paper ever.

I wasn't dismissing you or anything, just making a few points most of which were my opinion only really.

I'd like to see more environmental stories, and far more shocking ones for that matter as our govt doesn't really take this issue very seriously and yes stories about Jude Law are IMOA pretty dumb. But to survive newspapers are going to have to report what sells. I'd be a bit worried if dailies shut down due to lack of circulation and if they report articles a lot of people aren't interested in this could be a problem.

Never read Robert Fisk so cannot make comment on that.