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What Paper Do You Take And Why
- Thread starter The Spanish
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Milton Keynes Seagull
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I don't understand why anyone buys newspapers these days. You can get all the news, real news that is, online or on television (ceefax etc), without having to wade through interminable adverts, the opinions of self appointed guardians of the nation's interests and the puerile antics of dissolute celebs.
If you want tits and sport you can also get all that online as well. Allegedly.
If you want tits and sport you can also get all that online as well. Allegedly.
questier
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The Guardian and The Argus online
You sure ?
The bookmarked link I use which used to take me directly to their front page now takes me to a registration screen telling me how "exciting" their website has now become.
Yes, exciting and inaccessible.
Times+
I've read several articles on it this morning and I certainly haven't paid a penny
I mainly buy the Guardian but at least once a week get the Telegraph for the other view. The Guardian sports section is good in my opinion. Any broadsheet sport section is better than the Sun or Mirror as in the main the tabloids are too obsessed with petty controversy and the opinions of ex players.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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Wow you are fun!You aren't putting yourself up for election anywhere are you?! ! ! Yes, I would buy the Guardian for sport. Especially on a Saturday.
Indeed for me the Guardian has by far the best sport's coverage of any of the papers, well-balanced, interesting and with more cricket and rugby than most other papers. But then i'm actually interested in sport rather than pages of ex-players and managers talking shit, 'news' stories and gossip completely made-up and inane player interviews
You sure ?
The bookmarked link I use which used to take me directly to their front page now takes me to a registration screen telling me how "exciting" their website has now become.
Yes, exciting and inaccessible.
Times+
Times Online | News and Views from The Times and Sunday Times
not sure why you went to that times plus link
FREDBINNEY
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- Dec 11, 2009
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International herald tribune/Corriere dello Sport
The Spanish
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I don't understand why anyone buys newspapers these days. You can get all the news, real news that is, online or on television (ceefax etc), without having to wade through interminable adverts, the opinions of self appointed guardians of the nation's interests and the puerile antics of dissolute celebs.
If you want tits and sport you can also get all that online as well. Allegedly.
having a paper is just good. reading all your news and getting everything online is just a tad nerdy in my eyes. and its harder on your eyes too. if you got on a train to an away game you all take a load of papers and its a laugh. imagine everyone on here getting their iTablets out and reading popbitch or the daily mash out to each other on the way to huddersfield. well to be honest thats not such a leap of imagination.
jakarta
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The Torygraph has gone downhill but still has Matt, good sports coverage and most of all the best obituaries.
Every week you are certain to have at least one old boy who got an immediate Military Cross at Anzio by disarming a Boche Machine Gun Nest with just a Swagger Stick.....
Every week you are certain to have at least one old boy who got an immediate Military Cross at Anzio by disarming a Boche Machine Gun Nest with just a Swagger Stick.....
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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i read the Metro in the morning and the Evening Standard on the way home. hows that for cheepskateishness?
i tend to avoid reading the " 60yo got sent to jail for dropping a hankie" and soap opera style stories as i know most of them are half made up or only tell one side. But the Standard especially is a pretty decent paper, reflecting the diverse readership of the capital rather than being particularly right wing (though it clearly is that way inclinded). its a long way from the stablemate Mail. the Metro not so much, its does often read like a reheat of yesturdays Mail stories, but the sport is ok.
if im paying, i'll buy the Time then the Guardian in that order. i'll read the Sun on saturdays for the Clarkson column and sport when at the Chinese too. reading the mail, express, mirror or the rest of the sun would make me too angry, they dont half print some bollocks.
i tend to avoid reading the " 60yo got sent to jail for dropping a hankie" and soap opera style stories as i know most of them are half made up or only tell one side. But the Standard especially is a pretty decent paper, reflecting the diverse readership of the capital rather than being particularly right wing (though it clearly is that way inclinded). its a long way from the stablemate Mail. the Metro not so much, its does often read like a reheat of yesturdays Mail stories, but the sport is ok.
if im paying, i'll buy the Time then the Guardian in that order. i'll read the Sun on saturdays for the Clarkson column and sport when at the Chinese too. reading the mail, express, mirror or the rest of the sun would make me too angry, they dont half print some bollocks.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
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Cheers chaps. I'd been using the same link for YONKS, yet it suddenly started taking me to their subscription page. No idea why, but I just assumed they'd already pulled the drawbridge up and started asking for me to cough up (which I absolutely will not).
Link duley edited, and thats my lunchtime snorted.
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Stumpy Tim
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When I buy a paper in the UK, it's the Independent. But as has been said, everything is online now - my staple is the BBC News website
The Hon Sec
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I took the telegraph on subscription for the summers just for the cricket but they've changed their coverage and got rid of the reporters I enjoyed reading. Complained bitterly and did not renew.
Now take the Times and Argus but do miss the obits in the Telegraph. However, can pick up most detail on line. Pop into quite a few news sites online but cant break the habit of visiting the newsagents. At my age its somewhere to have a chat.
Now take the Times and Argus but do miss the obits in the Telegraph. However, can pick up most detail on line. Pop into quite a few news sites online but cant break the habit of visiting the newsagents. At my age its somewhere to have a chat.
Have the Arsegas daily, just like to see whose died I spose!
The Sun on a Saturday, wife likes the telly mag.
Mail on Sunday, to satisfy my inner sense of anger against the world.
Other news usually gathered from TV and radio. Usually trust the Beeb but very sceptical of ITV bias.
The Sun on a Saturday, wife likes the telly mag.
Mail on Sunday, to satisfy my inner sense of anger against the world.
Other news usually gathered from TV and radio. Usually trust the Beeb but very sceptical of ITV bias.
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Have you transposed the two names ?
Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
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The Guardian, I get it mostly for the reviews. The media suppliment is the best around.
Barry Izbak
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I have an Argus every day, and The Times when I think I'm going to have time to read it.