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I haven't bought a newspaper, national or local since 1997.
I rarely buy my local newspapers The South Wales Echo and The Merthyr Express.
The South Wales Echo was once a good paper but I started having it delivered two years ago for a while and felt it was dumbed down drivel with too many vox pop interivews from readers. A far cry from when I read it in the sevenites and eagerly awaited the sports supplement on a Saturday from my local newsagents,I was never a sports fan, but I always loved the cinema listings for films being shown in Cardiff.
I love buying local rags when I am on holiday in Bourmemouth and Torquay, I think the Bournemouth Echo is a genuinely good paper.
The Omninternet website has a marvelous site which features newspapers from around the world.
I haven't bought a newspaper, national or local since 1997.
The Welwyn-Hatfield Times & The Watford Observer.
Local papers that kick butt!
name='Harleybloke']The Welwyn-Hatfield Times & The Watford Observer.
Local papers that kick butt!
If their online I will have a look.
Yes. Times and Transcript.
Not very good but essential reading to know what's happening locally.
name='batman']I haven't bought a newspaper, national or local since 1997.
Me too. Since I've had access to the internet I see no reason to buy a newspaper as I get all my news etc from news sites.
I do believe the era of newspapers, as we know them, is changing forever. I read an article about an ipaper - a hand-held "newspaper", it looked interesting, but it was very expensive.
I don't bother with my local any more; I get three free newspapers, like it or not stuffed through the letter box
I never bother with dailies either.
I used to have subscriptions to specialist car and motor racing mags but they lapsed.
I did start collecting one or two cookery magazines but I find I get everything culinary on the 'net.
Only journal I do read now is my car club's quarterly mag.
name='Chevyman']I don't bother with my local any more; I get three free newspapers, like it or not stuffed through the letter box
I never bother with dailies either.
I used to have subscriptions to specialist car and motor racing mags but they lapsed.
I did start collecting one or two cookery magazines but I find I get everything culinary on the 'net.
Only journal I do read now is my car club's quarterly mag.
I used to buy The Times up and until last year, but I ended up not reading it on the day and as a result had a month long backlog.
I buy The Stage newspaper every week, Folk Roots monthly, the ocasional edition of Gramophone classical magazine. My brother buys Mojo, Record Collector and the other music magazines,so I can read them free when I visit my Mum.
name='BristolUK']Yes. Times and Transcript.
Not very good but essential reading to know what's happening locally.
I listen to many candadian radio stations on line, so I am quite familiar with whats happening across the country.
One of my favourite stations is CKWR in Waterloo and also CBC, and I have read quite a few newspapers online on the Omninternente site.
I dont have any family connections in Canada but I really want to visit there one day I am hoping to go to Vancouver or Toronto next year.
I used to spend ages thumbing through Record Collector before the 'net came along
I often pick up a copy of Private Eye if I'm travelling anywhere
Local papers seem very overladen with "Advertorial" as well as conventional ads.
Still, they have to make ends meet?
I browse through the paper local to my work most weeks - worth it for the shoddy editing which often means pictures have captions on the lines of 'Check bloke's name with Colin' or 'XXXX at garden party - leave space for name'!
name='Chevyman']I used to spend ages thumbing through Record Collector before the 'net came along
I often pick up a copy of Private Eye if I'm travelling anywhere
Local papers seem very overladen with "Advertorial" as well as conventional ads.
Still, they have to make ends meet?
Record collector is my favourite music mag they cover genres that are neglected in other publicaions.
The Records for sale and Records wanted lists have dwindled down to almost nothing these days. At one time it was my favourite portion of the mag.
Also read my brother copy of Spectator from time to time.
CHEERS
B.H.
name='batman']I haven't bought a newspaper, national or local since 1997.
Same here - and perhaps for even longer than that.
Fed up of their irritating pun-based humour, their ongoing colonial attitude of looking down at certain other countries, their perpetuation of cutural sterotyping... grrr, my list is longer than I thought!
If there was a paper that just delivered unadulterated facts I may consider buying it.
i buy the express on a monday for the quizword and the mail other days for the crossword,otherwise i can do well without!
as for my local newspaper,someone buys it in work and i read it for it's comical content-for instance,a couple of weeks ago page three was emblazoned with the headline '13 yr old boy steals box of roses chocolates from 'wilkinsons' shop' ha ha ha pathetic!!!
name='SirOllyBolly']
If there was a paper that just delivered unadulterated facts I may consider buying it.
I wouldn't even buy one of those .... my family was on the receiving end of some serious newspaper grief in 1997/98, even the so-called 'worthwhile' papers such as those scumbags at The Guardian and The Independent joined in. Among the tabloids the only one that was OK was The Daily Mail (hence my thread on the subject), but I am sure they would have if the others hadn't got there first.
All newspapers are written by people with their own agenda, regardless of their particular politics et al, and are therefore worthless.
name='batman']
All newspapers are written by people with their own agenda, regardless of their particular politics et al, and are therefore worthless.
I'd have to agree. There would be certain amount of spin - be it from the editor or the state - on anything printed, even if it professed to be the unadultered facts.
All media is indeed, worthless.
But they do love themselves and regard themselves as an indespensible part of our daily lives - grrrrr
No, we recieve three free papers a week, and a couple of other freebies once a Month.......that's enough for the local goings on!
I won't touch the local daily Evening paper, the Evening Echo, as it's an "we like to stir it" rag on a par with The Sun
As many other people I've gone off the Daily Mail in recent years (likes to stir it as well!) though I may purchase it on a Friday purely for Baz Bamigboye's Entertainment pages and Movie reviews
Our regional paper has a habit of dragging up some real dirt on people for ..not particularly severe crimes..I think that is pretty cruel..it's not giving them the chance to start afresh.
Our local paper is pretty good - they have the interests of the local people very much at heart, I think and never seem to sensationalise.
The Guardian - I buy it - I like a lot of it. But I am well aware of it's pitfalls - they do make far too many 'mistakes' that need to be corrected later - by which time the damage is done and printing pics of desperate refugees next to articles about �1000 handbags does jar with most people I think.
Not all. You may have had a bad experience with somebody from The Guardian, but there is no individual nor organisation behind the paper that stands to gain from the way it reports or doesn't report things.name='batman'] All newspapers are written by people with their own agenda, regardless of their particular politics et al, and are therefore worthless.
The Scott Trust.
The Trust was created in 1936 to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of the Guardian. Its core purpose is to preserve the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian
name='EHV_Emmetts'] Since I've had access to the internet I see no reason to buy a newspaper as I get all my news etc from news sites.
Aside from the pleasure to be gained from sitting in your favourite chair, or in the garden, or on the bog
Even if every item in the paper was available on-line and in a full version one could miss it.
In turning a page in the paper one may be drawn to a photo or headline and there could be the name of a writer you may admire. The sub heading and opening paragraph is clear and one may decide to read on having seen any of these aspects. In the on-line version, there will be just a few words in a clickable link and it won't draw you to the article in the same way.
What about when the site is down or your computer is running slow? You could come back to it but you may forget or be unable to find it again. What if you can't even get on the computer because someone else is on it?
I wonder, do you not bother with TV because it can be watched on-line? Do you not bother with books because you can read them on the internet? Do you decide not to go to the pub and chat with your mates because you can log on to a forum instead or go in a chatroom?
Each to his own of course; news sites are a great resource. But please, let's not pretend that news sites can replace the newspaper any more than a chatroom can replace conversation.
Our local, The Daily Progress has been known to many of us, for at least 30 years as The Regress. I don't read it, except occasionally (on line) when I read the obituary of a friend, or when something particularly sensational has occured. It is the only paper I know of that has a stated policy of putting local news in the first section and the world and national news in section 2�you figure, as they say here!
When I was last in England, I read The Independent and thoroughly enjoyed it. My mother liked The Telegraph. I found it far too conservative.
In the States the closest we come to a national paper is the trio of The Washington Post which I take and enjoy; The New York Times which I see on a fairly frequent basis, and The Wall Street Journal which is a very good paper, with great music reviews on occasion!
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