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What newspapers do you read ?
During the week it's the western mail and guardian, Sunday it used to be observer and Wales on Sunday
I am dropping the Wales on Sunday , this week's is utter rubbish and it's almost the price of the quality broadsheets
The echo is a load of nonsense too
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Times on the weekend - it’s free from waitrose
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Can’t remember the last time I bought a newspaper. Nowadays just watch news on TV and online.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
During the week it's the western mail and guardian, Sunday it used to be observer and Wales on Sunday
I am dropping the Wales on Sunday , this week's is utter rubbish and it's almost the price of the quality broadsheets
The echo is a load of nonsense too
Can't say I read newspapers as a whole, though I quite often spot a link online to a story of interest and spend a while looking at other stories from the same media outlet. Generally, those tend to be WalesOnline, Guardian and Independent.
If I was in power I would ban the Mail, Sun and Express. I'd pass a law requiring all media establishments to print factual items, rather than scare stories based on opinions. I'd prevent newspapers from being politically leaning towards a particular party or printing endless propaganda. When you have billionaire newspaper owners (who avoid tax btw) telling us their particular slant on the world, are they reporting factual news or telling you what they want you to know in order to protect their own interests?
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Whilst looking through the travel section of the paper this morning, I saw some offers for holidays on the Isle of Wight. One company even offered 'free car ferry' . Now where the feck would I put that? I only have a small garden.
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I have a look at as many as I am able to online. Why pay when the majority are free online?
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The Guardian - £1 on campus, BBC News and sometimes the Evening Standard coz I use the Tube every day and the university SU's newspaper as well so that I am itk as in what is happening in the uni and the local area
I also read the Economist and Financial Times as part of my degree is in economics
But newspapers in general, I take them with a pinch of salt tbh and I also read academic journals, which is essential for my degree tbh
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If you like propaganda and yesterday's news then newspapers are great. Otherwise give them a miss
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I have the "i"
List price is 60p weekdays. 80p on Sat.
But I subscribe, so it works out at just over 30p a day. Can't fault it. :thumbup:
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I don't trust any news source unless I can trace it's funding back to the Kremlin.
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Here’s a good website with quick links to many, many newspapers both home and abroad
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/#.WeypBLrTWhC
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bobh
I have the "i"
List price is 60p weekdays. 80p on Sat.
But I subscribe, so it works out at just over 30p a day. Can't fault it. :thumbup:
Yes you can, its outdated and politically biased like other crap publications
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Eric Cartman
I don't trust any news source unless I can trace it's funding back to the Kremlin.
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I read The Guardian online every day. Sometimes The Independent.
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I get all the news l need from the weather report
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Toadstool
Times on the weekend - it’s free from waitrose
As long as you spend at least £10.
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Since64
I get all the news l need from the weather report
Not true, the post above yours is from the Only Living Boy In New York!
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I used to read Page 3, but I've stopped as it's not like it used to be. I get all my Page 3 news online now.
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Eric the Half a Bee
Can't say I read newspapers as a whole, though I quite often spot a link online to a story of interest and spend a while looking at other stories from the same media outlet. Generally, those tend to be WalesOnline, Guardian and Independent.
If I was in power I would ban the Mail, Sun and Express. I'd pass a law requiring all media establishments to print factual items, rather than scare stories based on opinions. I'd prevent newspapers from being politically leaning towards a particular party or printing endless propaganda. When you have billionaire newspaper owners (who avoid tax btw) telling us their particular slant on the world, are they reporting factual news or telling you what they want you to know in order to protect their own interests?
Great post. I hate the way newspapers try to scare us into behaving or thinking in a particular way.
I no longer buy a paper and tend to read stuff that catches my eye on the web which can lead to me reading other titbits from the same source . Huffington post is one source for my news.
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Jimmy the Jock
Great post. I hate the way newspapers try to scare us into behaving or thinking in a particular way.
I no longer buy a paper and tend to read stuff that catches my eye on the web which can lead to me reading other titbits from the same source . Huffington post is one source for my news.
What a top post:thumbup:
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Frightening thought really, that since the inception of the printed word the world, certainly the UK, has been guided/misguided by the press, living in our local bubbles, newspapers were perhaps the only thing that gave us an insight to what the big picture was. A small number of press magnates dictated the thoughts of millions, the line "It must be true, it was in the paper" has been trotted out for decades, terrifying!!!
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Eric the Half a Bee
Can't say I read newspapers as a whole, though I quite often spot a link online to a story of interest and spend a while looking at other stories from the same media outlet. Generally, those tend to be WalesOnline, Guardian and Independent.
If I was in power I would ban the Mail, Sun and Express. I'd pass a law requiring all media establishments to print factual items, rather than scare stories based on opinions. I'd prevent newspapers from being politically leaning towards a particular party or printing endless propaganda. When you have billionaire newspaper owners (who avoid tax btw) telling us their particular slant on the world, are they reporting factual news or telling you what they want you to know in order to protect their own interests?
Murdoch will find a way to piss all over that fairy tale idea.
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If I buy a newspaper it's because I've ran out of paper to put on the bottom of Rudy's cage.
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Quite like the Independebt and the Times
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splott parker
Frightening thought really, that since the inception of the printed word the world, certainly the UK, has been guided/misguided by the press, living in our local bubbles, newspapers were perhaps the only thing that gave us an insight to what the big picture was. A small number of press magnates dictated the thoughts of millions, the line "It must be true, it was in the paper" has been trotted out for decades, terrifying!!!
It was the church who did the same job before the printing press came along.
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Wales-Bales
It was the church who did the same job before the printing press came along.
Did you see that programme the other night about William of Orange's invasion? He actually brought a printing press with him on one of the ships for propaganda purposes. The power of the printed word eh!
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splott parker
Did you see that programme the other night about William of Orange's invasion? He actually brought a printing press with him on one of the ships for propaganda purposes. The power of the printed word eh!
You know the church wouldn't lie to promote their own agenda.
Nor tamper with wee boys.
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Jimmy the Jock
You know the church wouldn't lie to promote their own agenda.
Nor tamper with wee boys.
Where did you hear about that Jim?
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This thread confirms that the printed news is a dying section of the media.
In answer to the op I read The Times and Sunday Times and Wales on Line.
BTW I don't vote Tory.
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Mrs Steve R
Where did you hear about that Jim?
Might have been the Daily Mail?
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I buy The Daily Mirror on a Saturday and read The Guardian on line.
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Jimmy the Jock
Might have been the Daily Mail?
I was joking. :biggrin:
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As mentioned previously, you have to read opposite publications to know what is really going on, the Guardian/Daily Mail, BBC/Fox, etc. Also blogs and forums are becoming increasingly relevant if you can find your way through the maze of good and bad info. Many of these modern disseminators of information have really good sources who wouldn't ordinarily deal with the legacy press.
A good example would be the US election/Russian collusion story, there are two completely different narratives doing the rounds depending on where you source your news. Eventually one will be proved right while the other suffers the consequences of spreading lies.
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Wales-Bales
As mentioned previously, you have to read opposite publications to know what is really going on, the Guardian/Daily Mail, BBC/Fox, etc. Also blogs and forums are becoming increasingly relevant if you can find your way through the maze of good and bad info. Many of these modern disseminators of information have really good sources who wouldn't ordinarily deal with the legacy press.
A good example would be the US election/Russian collusion story, there are two completely different narratives doing the rounds depending on where you source your news. Eventually one will be proved right while the other suffers the consequences of spreading lies.
I would say the Mail is sensationalist so instead of that, I would read the Telegraph
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adz-a32
I would say the Mail is sensationalist so instead of that, I would read the Telegraph
Yeah sure, as long as you know what all of their biases are.
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Wales-Bales
As mentioned previously, you have to read opposite publications to know what is really going on, the Guardian/Daily Mail, BBC/Fox, etc. Also blogs and forums are becoming increasingly relevant if you can find your way through the maze of good and bad info. Many of these modern disseminators of information have really good sources who wouldn't ordinarily deal with the legacy press.
A good example would be the US election/Russian collusion story, there are two completely different narratives doing the rounds depending on where you source your news. Eventually one will be proved right while the other suffers the consequences of spreading lies.
Why read any?
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Minion
Why read any?
If only the topic of the thread had been "What newspapers don't you read?" :biggrin:
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The Tenby Times is my organ of choice , bit lacking on world news but really handy if a car gets scratched or a cat does missing in Penally
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