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What newspaper(s) do you read?


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Butts

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If this poll was representative of the real sales figures........

The Sun,Mirror and Daily Mail would be right at the top with The Guardian and Independent bringing up the rear if you'll excuse the language :lol:
 
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If this poll was representative of the real sales figures........

The Sun,Mirror and Daily Mail would be right at the top with The Guardian and Independent bringing up the rear if you'll excuse the language :lol:

And there'd have to be a significant minority added for none :lol:
 

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If this poll was representative of the real sales figures........

The Sun,Mirror and Daily Mail would be right at the top with The Guardian and Independent bringing up the rear if you'll excuse the language :lol:

Which makes the results of the poll all that more surprising really.
 
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Socialist Worker? There's a chap in Dorchester who stoically sells it* every Saturday.


* I presume he must sell some

I'll look to see if there's a Metro lying around on a train, but I don't buy anything regularly, and I won't really bother browsing through a paper if I find one on a train or in a Cafe, since they're all full of stuff about politics or drivel about the "Games".

Surprised that the Socialist Worker is still going? I remember that from the 80's.
 

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Only local papers or otherwise what's lying about or on offer for me. The Lancashire Evening Post is a quality local paper.
 

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In this iPad, smartphone-dominated world, it's unsurprising that hard copy news is on the wane.

Newspapers will still have their place as items of record, but for day-to-day news, it's the radio, TV and internet that rule.
 
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The Guardian and the Peterborough Evening Telegraph but the latter is more of a comic strip really.

I once saw, a man reading the Financial Times on a Sheffield - St Pancras service. Nothing odd about that; but was amused, when he turned his attention to the Clacton and Frinton Gazette! I assumed he was going on to Liverpool Street eventually.
 
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Generally I go for I, as for 20p you cant complain, however very occasionally I will buy the telegraph for the size.
 

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In spite of all the tribulations the press has been through:

I think it's a genuine shame that people aren't reading newspapers anymore.

Yes, you can find out what's going on from television and internet news, but in my opinion, there's nothing like having a newspaper in front of you to read.

I like a certain amount of opinion as well, and I'm well aware that the newspaper has a ("settled opinion") which I can take or leave, as well as various columnists who are employed to provide opinions.

I think the Country would be worse without it's various (I hesitate to say "Broadsheets" because I still think the tabloid Times was a mistake but we're stuck with it) newspapers to fill in the gaps that Radio 4 can't fill.
 

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I normally read whats left on the boats at work, normally The Sun or we get the occasional Mirror, also get the Evening Standard from time to time.

If I were in the mood to pay for one (hardly ever) then it will be either The Sun or The Daily Echo (local).

If I'm about on the trains then I will normally pick up an Evening Standard or anything thats lying around.
 

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In spite of all the tribulations the press has been through:

I think it's a genuine shame that people aren't reading newspapers anymore.

Yes, you can find out what's going on from television and internet news, but in my opinion, there's nothing like having a newspaper in front of you to read.

I like a certain amount of opinion as well, and I'm well aware that the newspaper has a ("settled opinion") which I can take or leave, as well as various columnists who are employed to provide opinions.

Newspapers have had to evolve continuously since the advent of swifter communication methods. The tabloids like The Sun and The Mirror have become more like celebrity magazines, while the broadsheets have concentrated on analysis and opinion rather than straightforward news reporting.

They will continue to have a greater internet presence in future, which should help as far as income and revenue streams go.

I think the Country would be worse without it's various (I hesitate to say "Broadsheets" because I still think the tabloid Times was a mistake but we're stuck with it) newspapers to fill in the gaps that Radio 4 can't fill.

I think that printed media will survive, but probably on a much reduced scale (local newspapers have already contracted a great deal). They will still be valued by those who wish to learn more about the background to the stories of the day, and to read a range of opinions. Although the same opinions might be found on the web, they might well be submerged within a pile of internet detritus.

I normally read whats left on the boats at work, normally The Sun or we get the occasional Mirror, also get the Evening Standard from time to time.

If I were in the mood to pay for one (hardly ever) then it will be either The Sun or The Daily Echo (local).

If I'm about on the trains then I will normally pick up an Evening Standard or anything thats lying around.

I assume the poll is not intended to cover papers we pick up that others have left behind?! If not, I will have to add a couple of votes!

One of the newspapers I found most interesting was the Manchester local evening paper, which I sometimes found on my train home, in the days when it originated in Manchester. I don't know whether this is because I wa sunfamiliar with it, or because of the presentation and quality of the stories and articles.
 

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I assume the poll is not intended to cover papers we pick up that others have left behind?! If not, I will have to add a couple of votes
That is what I assumed as well, so only voted for the ones I seldom purchase.
 

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That is what I assumed as well, so only voted for the ones I seldom purchase.

I can't rememebr the last time I bought a national newspaper. I do (rarely) buy the local one, usually if there is something that catches my eye in the sport section! But I'll read anything I find discarded on a train or bus!
 

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As I mentioned in the other thread, I am a Times Digital subscriber. When I was a teenager I did buy Today (anyone remember that?) for a while.

I don't think I could bring myself to read a copy of The Sun, even if I just found it laying around.
 

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Newspapers have had to evolve continuously since the advent of swifter communication methods. The tabloids like The Sun and The Mirror have become more like celebrity magazines, while the broadsheets have concentrated on analysis and opinion rather than straightforward news reporting.

They will continue to have a greater internet presence in future, which should help as far as income and revenue streams go.

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Yes, that's certainly true - although it does worry me that on a fair few occasions the Times I've paid for seems to be thinner than the Metro I pick up for free. I'll still buy it, but unfortunately I sense the whiff of national decline.
 

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Why am I not surprised no one has voted for the Daily Star?

If Scott hadn't made this a public poll, you wonder if that fact would be different ;)

Anyway, I read i, the Evening Standard when I pick it up on a train, and my local paper The Tiverton Gazette.
 
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As I mentioned in the other thread, I am a Times Digital subscriber. When I was a teenager I did buy Today (anyone remember that?) for a while.

I don't think I could bring myself to read a copy of The Sun, even if I just found it laying around.

Today was quite a good read at the time.
 
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I have better things to spend my money on but it won't stop me reading someone else's as long as it's not the sun or the daily mail.
 

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I don't read any regularly. My Mum reads the Daily Express and has done since the 1960s. I almost never bother trying to read it. If I want to read news reports, I tend to go for the Guardian, Observer, or the Times. We used to get the Sunday Times, but it seemed silly considering how much there is of it, most of it didn't get looked at so it was a shame to spend the money on it.

I just been doing some research so I spent £7.78 for 24 hours access to the digital archive of the Guardian and Observer. So far so good !

As far as the so called newspapers with chatline adverts and gossip, I prefer co-op's own brand toilet paper because you don't get the ink rubbing off all over the place.;)
 

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I think this may well be a "generational" thing with regard to Online V Newspapers of the same hew as Kindle v Books.

Each to their own as long as its a Newspaper and a Book :oops:
 

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You mean.....

I wonder if anyone reads the Sunday Sport

There was never a lot to 'read' in it :lol:


Yes I wondered that - I though it consisted entirely of pictures of umm a certain type:oops:

Purely from hearsay of course:D
 

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I did a journalism degree, and as such I bought the Sunday Sport on occasion for academic study. (honest).

A lot of the news is of the type you'd expect in the Star or Sun, and, surprisingly but at the same time not unexpectedly, they do seem to take the Sport side very seriously with comprehensive football coverage (although it's most probably just lifted straight from the PA wires).

What disturbed me the most though, apart from the blatant misogyny, was some of the political "commentary" with some very extreme right-wing views, real gutter white-van black-cabbie stuff, with talk of executing immigrants who commit crimes etc. Some very laughable comments about the Sun being a down-market rag as well I remember.

"Registered at the Post Office as an aid to masturbation."
 

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I think this may well be a "generational" thing with regard to Online V Newspapers of the same hew as Kindle v Books.

Each to their own as long as its a Newspaper and a Book :oops:

I have to say I agree. A friend of mine recently graduated with 1st class Honours, and I've kept a cutting from the Press and Journal to go in my photo album. Had this been on-line, I'd never have had anything to keep. When somebody has to go through my albums in 60, 70, 80 years or whenever, they will see that and wonder who she was.

It's good to have actual, physical 'things' sometimes. On-line really is ephemoral.
 

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Good to see the Grauniad winning. At least there is some sense in the enthusiast community if not the wider world.

OK, so Metro has the same score at the mo, but that's a free sheet given out at stations, so it's hardly surprising railway enthusiasts, who spend a lot of time at stations, and like free things, read it. It's not a newspaper though: you get about as much information and intellectual stimulation from reading the safety notices on a 150.
 

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Good to see the Grauniad winning. At least there is some sense in the enthusiast community if not the wider world.

In what sense? Are you deriding everyone else who chooses to read a different newspaper than you? Feel a little bit bigger for that do you? Enjoy looking down your pointy long nose with a holier then thou attitude due to you reading the Guardian do you?

Think your better than me do you?

If the Guardian was that lauded a paper amongst the 'Enthusiast' community then why the hell are people not buying it?
 

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In what sense? Are you deriding everyone else who chooses to read a different newspaper than you? Feel a little bit bigger for that do you? Enjoy looking down your pointy long nose with a holier then thou attitude due to you reading the Guardian do you?

Think your better than me do you?

Calm down dear.

If the Guardian was that lauded a paper amongst the 'Enthusiast' community then why the hell are people not buying it?

Because they read the website on their iPads?
 
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