ICTJohnboy Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Looking at the comments on the Brexit and other threads on newspapers, I'm wondering how many out there in P&B land pick up a daily rag every morning and are influenced by it? Personally I gave up buying a paper on a daily basis ever since Andrew Neil and Fraser Nelson turned the Scotsman into a far right, Blair/Bush/war in Iraq supporting pile of shit. Occasionally, if embarking on a train, or plane journey I'll pick up a Guardian or an Independent to help while away the hours, although to catch up on the latest news I'm quite happy to click on to Sky News on my phone. So..... What's the newspaper of your choice and why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefybake Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 I've long, 20 ,25 years, done without a daily newspaper. I do buy the print edition of the Observer on a Sunday. The Guardian / Observer professes to be for liberal minded people. It is though a little too right wing for me, in particular it's readiness to criticise Corbyn. In general, like much of politics in the UK over the last 30 years that have shifted rightwards, the paper has acquiesced to that. Away from opinion pieces, I do like the way it works cooperatively with, for example, Channel 4 and CNN to do good proper investigative journalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Absolutely not. They can all get so far to f**k. They're just hate manuals intercut with celebrity worship to distract you from the atrocities of the government of the day. Horrible propaganda machines. I haven't bought one since about 2004 and haven't read one since probably just after. I don't read or watch the news at all. It's garbage nonsense. This seems to surprise many folk who ask where I get 'my news' from. Others say I'm ignorant of what's going on. I reply that I don't care and anything important I'll hear about anyway, usually through social media or on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapelhall chap Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 I avoid all the branch " Scottish" ones although I rarely read them anyway before 2014. Tended to read the Glasgow herald before I retired and liked the football Monday of the Daily record/Sunday Mail but that stopped after the "Vow". My Sunday paper used to move between the Sunday Times/Observer/Sunday Herald for a bit of balance. I now read the National most days (buy) and while I have gone with it on Sunday I don't like the broadsheet lay out. My views are not created by the paper but I suppose it does tend to reinforce much of what I think. The influence of the MSM on elections is clearly important in framing the "debates" but there are many other sources now compared to my early days in politics of the 70s/80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 17 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: I don't read or watch the news at all. It's garbage nonsense. This seems to surprise many folk who ask where I get 'my news' from. Others say I'm ignorant of what's going on. I reply that I don't care and anything important I'll hear about anyway, usually through social media or on here. Good answer, although I'm not quite sure if you'll be receiving well balanced, fair minded news reporting and coverage on here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdiBairn Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 25 minutes ago, Chapelhall chap said: I avoid all the branch " Scottish" ones although I rarely read them anyway before 2014. Tended to read the Glasgow herald before I retired and liked the football Monday of the Daily record/Sunday Mail but that stopped after the "Vow". My Sunday paper used to move between the Sunday Times/Observer/Sunday Herald for a bit of balance. I now read the National most days (buy) and while I have gone with it on Sunday I don't like the broadsheet lay out. My views are not created by the paper but I suppose it does tend to reinforce much of what I think. The influence of the MSM on elections is clearly important in framing the "debates" but there are many other sources now compared to my early days in politics of the 70s/80s. The National and balance in the same paragraph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Haven't bought a newspaper in years.When I used to though it was unsurprisingly The Daily Mail.Quite liked the Independent on Sunday as well. Sunday Post as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapelhall chap Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Suits me well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCelt67 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Haven't bought a newspaper in years. The Metro on my way to work is the only newspaper I've read in quite some time. The occasional glance at their websites or social media is more than enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Once in a blue moon - more likely to check online - usually around one issue - to see if they are all saying the same thing - and if they have a different perspective on an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 10 hours ago, ICTJohnboy said: Looking at the comments on the Brexit and other threads on newspapers, I'm wondering how many out there in P&B land pick up a daily rag every morning and are influenced by it? Personally I gave up buying a paper on a daily basis ever since Andrew Neil and Fraser Nelson turned the Scotsman into a far right, Blair/Bush/war in Iraq supporting pile of shit. Occasionally, if embarking on a train, or plane journey I'll pick up a Guardian or an Independent to help while away the hours, although to catch up on the latest news I'm quite happy to click on to Sky News on my phone. So..... What's the newspaper of your choice and why? You don't buy The Scostman because it went right wing but you happily use the Sky News app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Stopped buying national daily papers in the early 90s. Continued to buy the Sunday Mail and Sunday Post for the football until the internet became a bigger thing. Depending on where I lived, I would occasionally buy the local papers which may have come out once or twice a week but that was more for local info than any national or international news but have even stopped that now. Now get most of my news off various internet sites (including P&B) Still despair seeing my parents and in-laws buying the Mail every day though and given my mother's more vocal stance (lecturing us) on politics since 2014, she can no longer kid on that she only buys it for the sudoku and crossword puzzles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Usually just tune into Sky News on the daily. Newspapers aren’t about making money though, they’re there to set the terms of debate on public issues. Nick Robinson referring to the Sunday Times’s coverage of trans issues in his interview, I think, with Paris Lees is a good example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Why do folk need to get "my news"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkinFighter Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I read the online version of the guardian at work. Most of my other news is from here or occasionally twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Rubin Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I buy the Daily Express and Daily Mail and 2 pints of full fat milk every morning ( except Sun ). They're not perfect newsprint but some of the travel, gardening, health columns are good and I enjoy the editorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Free guardian app on my phone, and for more left wing stuff I get the odd second hand morning star from my dad. I flick through all the news channels on a daily basis (with no great allegiance to any of them), and use the BBC news website even though I hate myself for doing so. It's coverage has went downhill ridiculously in the last ten years. No social media, other than links from here. All in all, quite happy with my balance of news and information - but I'll have to replace the left wing stuff when my old man goes (he's 80 next year so it's something to think about). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 ^^^^^^^^^^^Playboy, but only for the articles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I don't ever buy a paper. I read the Independent, Guardian, BBC News, Telegraph, Express, Record, National and P&J on an app. Buy Private Eye. Does that count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Free guardian app on my phone, and for more left wing stuff I get the odd second hand morning star from my dad. I flick through all the news channels on a daily basis (with no great allegiance to any of them), and use the BBC news website even though I hate myself for doing so. It's coverage has went downhill ridiculously in the last ten years. No social media, other than links from here. All in all, quite happy with my balance of news and information - but I'll have to replace the left wing stuff when my old man goes (he's 80 next year so it's something to think about). The best left wing analysis you can get these days is from people on Twitter with names like icum4mao and daddylenin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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