[pave]

Just wondering...do you buy a newspaper these days....I can't remember the last time I did,use the internet e.t.c.........

[Mep]

usually only if I'm going up to the city by train, then I buy a telegraph....pretty much just for the crossword.

[Ian J]

Normally when I'm on holiday and don't have access to the internet or teletext

[madcyril]

I have not bought a paper for 5-6yrs since I work on the trains so can get all of them free(thou' pre-read).The same goes for FHM,Maxim,T3.Mens health and the usual Zoo and Nuts mags.

[Mr Incredible]

I have one delivered every day. Ironically the paper in question only offers an online subscription to people living outside the UK, otherwise I would be subscribing to an online version.

[Steven]

I like to buy the Times on occasion, especially when I need to travel from Euston > Manchester and vice versa

Also buy Total Film and Empire each month, though I do not like the new layout Total have given the mag. Really I should subscribe...

[Harj]

Almost daily, The Independant, nothing better for me on my lunchbreaks.

[Gadget Daddy]

never buy them

[PoochJD]

Hi,

I buy a paper at least once a week: either The Times, The Guardian or The Independant. (Won't touch one of the red-top rags! Far too chavvy, for my liking!)

I also try and get the Metro as often as possible. Despite having all the wonderful technology that we have nowadays, there's nothing better than reading something (book, newspaper or magazine) that doesn't require electricity to use it! And how many of you, would be happy to sit and read something off your mobile, Blackberry or portable PC, whilst in the bath, or on the bog?!

I really do hope that printed media never dies out! If it does, it will be a very sad day indeed.


Pooch

[Singh400]

Nope, just get the free one (Metro) off the bus (404A/404/238)

[GBDG1]

I'd be more inclined to buy a paper if they were half the size of what they currently are. It's just a pain in the arse.

[Mr Incredible]

Originally Posted by Lawrenzini

It's just a pain in the arse.

Be careful of the supplements, many have staples.

[William123]

Belfast News Letter and the Belfast Telegraph are two I buy regularly weekdays, never buy any at weekends

see them on the mess room table at work. just ignore them mainly though i do like the independent if someone buys it.

Lis@

here here here here here here here here here

doing my lines....

[Mep]

here here here here here here here here here

doing my lines....

good girl

[shahedz]

Read the Guardian on the way to work and the London Lite on the way home from work

[overkill]

Get the Guardian and Times for the Ed supp. Otherwise I wouldn't touch any of them with a pair of tongs at arms length.

[Setenza]

I eschew UK newspapers. They no longer provide news as they have been superseded by technology. So they sell a by line or an opinion instead. Often they go out of their way to be sensationalist and pander to all that's worse in the public.

They are far too powerful and influence public opinion for the worst. They demonise the inner city youth, the Islamic faith and anyone who isn't a Anglo-Saxon Christian. They are a nasty political tool design to fudge and blur the truth. They bury real stories. They are everything that Joseph Goebbels dreamt of. They play to the ego of the white middle classes and stiffle the working classes with celebrity mind rot media darling diversions.

I subscribe to Time magazine. It never seems to run out. It combines some of the material from the US version with European items. IT gives a good perspective on the UK. There was an excellent, objective article about Gordon Brown the other day that you just would not have found in a UK daily newspaper.

[Singh400]

@XoD:...So you don't like newspapers then..?

[overkill]

Originally Posted by Xusia Of Delos

I eschew UK newspapers. They no longer provide news as they have been superseded by technology. So they sell a by line or an opinion instead. Often they go out of their way to be sensationalist and pander to all that's worse in the public.

They are far too powerful and influence public opinion for the worst. They demonise the inner city youth, the Islamic faith and anyone who isn't a Anglo-Saxon Christian. They are a nasty political tool design to fudge and blur the truth. They bury real stories. They are everything that Joseph Goebbels dreamt of. They play to the ego of the white middle classes and stiffle the working classes with celebrity mind rot media darling diversions.

I subscribe to Time magazine. It never seems to run out. It combines some of the material from the US version with European items. IT gives a good perspective on the UK. There was an excellent, objective article about Gordon Brown the other day that you just would not have found in a UK daily newspaper.

Yow! Couldn't have put it better myself though........

[Accylad]

Being from up north I get the Sun each day - I find it a far superior wipe when cut into squares and hung on the lavy door

[Setenza]

Originally Posted by Singh400

@XoD:...So you don't like newspapers then..?

You don't even wrap your chips in them any more so they are totally redundant.

[Singh400]

Originally Posted by Xusia Of Delos

You don't even wrap your chips in them any more so they are totally redundant.

Eh? I don't eat chips. Only kidding mate, I can see where you coming from.

So what did you used to read?

[Elmer]

I used to buy the Guardian Monday-Saturday, but found in the week I ended up just skim reading it and it seemed a waste. I always get it on Saturday still, you can't beat reading the paper in bed on a Sunday morning.

I'll occasionally buy it midweek if I'm on holiday (not abroad, blowed if I'm paying £3.50 for a newspaper) or on plane and train journeys if I haven't been organized enough to take a book or something to listen to.

[RMCF]

Don't buy papers myself. Flick through the odd one at parents house or when lying around in work.

For me they are generally a waste of money - well for news anyway. Sure by the time its printed its old news in this ever changing world. Plus I am on the net quite often and watch the odd Sky News/Channel 4 news so am covered there too.

What I can't grasp are the tabloids. They are now 75% gossip, celebrity news, TV news and pics of people on their hols/nights out. Who cares? Obviously we have enough people buying them to keep quite a few going. And what news there is in them is not presented the best.

Originally Posted by overkill

Yow! Couldn't have put it better myself though........

Mr mep

can you see my argument that we badly need a i agree button next to the thanks button. Be better than a video link button. all the writing it would save and some people write so beautifully that you want to say i agree without the frills.

Lis@~~

here here here here

[Mr_Wistles]

The Sun and the Times, an eclectic combo.

[Mep]

Originally Posted by lisa burrell

Mr mep

can you see my argument that we badly need a i agree button next to the thanks button. Be better than a video link button. all the writing it would save and some people write so beautifully that you want to say i agree without the frills.

Lis@~~

here here here here

Lisa, I don't disagree.....I thought you were on the case with Alexs2?

[signs]

Originally Posted by LFC_SL

I like to buy the Times on occasion, especially when I need to travel from Euston > Manchester and vice versa

Also buy Total Film and Empire each month, though I do not like the new layout Total have given the mag. Really I should subscribe...

i wasnt sure at first , but like anything you will get use to it after a time, as long as they don't get all pretentious like Empire

Originally Posted by Mep

Lisa, I don't disagree.....I thought you were on the case with Alexs2?

It ground to a halt because i really do not know what to do

Anyone please help with this. Need a knight in shining armour

Lis@~~