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Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Mine is the Times-very balanced coverage on most things.

I particularly like the pull out they have on a Monday (called the Game) regarding the previous weekends football games-very full and comprehensive-all levels including non league football covered.

Cherskiy · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject:

Likewise the Times and the Sunday Times, when I can be bothered to actually buy one nowadays, which is pretty rare.

However, I'm more likely to peruse the websites of various local newspapers - around here, the Northumberland Gazette and Hexham Courant, plus The Ross-Shire Journal, Northern Times and The Orcadian for news about my usual holiday haunts. Our main local paper, the Evening Chronicle, is just a rag and has been for years, whilst the daily, the Journal has been going downhill ever since it changed from broadsheet to tabloid format.
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I don't read newspapers apart from when I'm on holiday in which instance choose the Telegraph.

SantaFefan · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:58 pm Post subject:

Me neither... I don't read any newspaper, national or local.
Just not interested in most national affairs and the local stuff just makes me sick - heard the same old garbage year after year - decade after decade...
I do however receive the New York Times via email, sometimes it's interesting to read a different angle on things.......

Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Interesting Santafefan that you take a US paper-I used to live in Houston in the USA for a period in the 80's.

What I found fascinating was the amount of column inches devoted to news outside of Texas-if memory serves me correctly about half a page of a broadsheet. Even worse was the coverage given to overseas news-a few column inches.

That always has stuck with me-how inward looking the US is -does the New York Times have a section covering overseas etc.

Barkingbiker · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire

Teletext, BBC News etc. Rarely buy a paper to read, sidecar buys the Mail on Saturday, but purely for the tele mag as it's cheaper than Radio or TV Times.

BB Twisted Evil

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AndyAndy2 · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

The Telegraph. Especially at the weekend - it's how the Times was years back when it was a broadsheet. great suppliments - weekend, motoring. Plus it has a very funny James May column every sat.

It's a great paper, if a little on the Conservative side. Sat gone, we had Tony Blair writing a column and loads of politicians write columns.

A great paper and a very interesting read.
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Julia · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject:

The Independent
because it is liberal Smile

and independent, not swayed by stupid news stories, and not incredibly labour or incredibly right wing

they dare to be diffenrent Smile

and they have interesting articles on fun things not jsut news ( i like their supplements eg on media, travel, fashion, music, general etc)
and they usually tell me about good gigs Smile

just a fab paper en general
bit LDN based though Sad

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject:

Ooh blimey, I'm a Guardian reader. Because I'm an arty farty designer! Wink

I don't agree with everything but there tends to be new and different perspectives on all sorts of things.

I particularly like Media Guardian - I just applied for a job out of it!

Julia · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject:

I've tried the Guardian and the Herald but I find n'owt I want to read
they just tend to bore me

each to their own though, everyone reads what suits them.
Did you know though (quite interestingly I reckon) in France, there is not a big demand for weekly papers - and so there is very little choice - the amount of papers bought is frighteningly low - you know as it hints at thee not being a variety of opinions expressed in the press

they tend to prefer weekly/monthly magazines with arty farty stuff plus news
oh god, I;m going discussing french newspapers - clearly a sign I need to log off and get some sleep! Laughing

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Minx · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:41 am Post subject:

I like the Daily Mirror, and the People and News of the World at weekends. If I really want some intellectual stimulation though I try to get my hands on a copy of The Sun. Wink

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

The Telegraph (and Sunday Telegraph)--I know which bits to take with a pinch of salt and I like the letters page and the junior doctor who contributes to the paper on Mondays.

Like Cherskiy, I get local news from the Hexham Courant but don't take the Newcastle Evening Chronicle any more.

I know the originator of this posting didn't ask for periodicals but I've read the Radio Times ever since I was a boy in the 1950s, when it cost twopence! I was given an annual subsription to Classic FM magazine for my birthday--the magazine itself is a bit bland but the free CD is itself worth the cost. I also take the Methodist Recorder.

Ian.

Peter de Meteor · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Bristol

I pick up 'The Metro' on my way to work every day.

We are also delivered 'The Evening Post' at work, which I devour avidly for the local news (especially the sport; Bristol Rovers and Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in particular).
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Highlander · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 348 Location: Scotland

The Dundee Courier (online) - No nonsense journalism from DC Thompson (home of the Beano and the Dandy).

Scotland on Sunday.....on a Sunday.
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Weekly Crawley News and Observer and Weekend Herald.

The Sun sometimes.

The Mail Sometimes

Guardian Online.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I feel, with threads like these, that someone, somewhere is building a profile of the average R2ok poster. If so, hope the end result comes out in humourous, artistic form!

It's probably no secret that I get the Telegraph - actually subscribe - the discount you get that way means that the Saturday and Sunday editions are effectively free (just as well, because it's impossible to find the time to read them all). Like they say, and like every newspaper, you get to know which bits of this "little Conservative" one to take with a bucket of salt. I get the Sunday Times for my mother - it keeps her going for the whole week.

Hasn't always been thus. Started with The Times in the late 60s - they had a half-price offer for students - then, when it was launched, The Independent. However, apart from some excellent columnists from time to time (Alexei Sayle, Robert Fisk, Miles Kington, Martin Johnson, Andrew Marr - the last two now write for the Telegraph) I felt it got rather grey and boring in the 90s.

Parents always had the Daily/Sunday Express, once a great popular newspaper. Best of all about it was the thrice-weekly cartoon by Giles.
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

My dad took the Express from the 50s to the 70s. I too was a great admirer of Giles. But I find the paper terminally boring and scaremongering today.

Ian.

firewirefred · Guest

The Sport and the Star are the best daily papers out there. I particularly love the impartiality and objectivity of the Star. Both very insightful papers!

Whereas the Mail is Tory cobblers.

pickle

I read the Metro on the way to work - it's the only one I really look at completely.

I like Kerber & Black's cartoons and Shelley's TV reviews in the Mirror, but at times it's like a Victoria Beckham fanzine due to excessive coverage of the snouty one.
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Rachel · Guest

The Mail and Mail on Sunday..... hubby reads it, tells me anything interesting, then I do the crossword.