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Which newspaper do you read?
Yeah, yeah, I know, many of us read several newpapers but which one is your staple diet?
Let's stick to weekday daily papers and leave the Sunday rags for another day.
I've listed them in the order I thought of them. I've probably missed a few so please complain if I have,
This poll is for UK residents only, I can't list every paper there is world wide!
Alice in Blunderland
19-Aug-07, 09:42
Woops Alice having a silly momment clicked on other when I meant to click I dont read one. :confused
I buy a groat and courier for any local news but give the daily papers a miss have done for years now.
I buy more than one, so cannot take effective part in this poll:( and I also read a few on the internet
Sorry, Crayola, I can't provide an answer. :(
I buy the same two every weekday, as well as those that I read online.
Bobinovich
19-Aug-07, 11:50
Wouldn't waste my money - quite happy catching up on Teletext and online news...
Even the Groat and Courier we get is 2nd hand LOL!
changilass
19-Aug-07, 12:00
Snap Bob :D
Ditto!!! my JOG & Courier second hand
lynne duncan
19-Aug-07, 14:12
get the p&J and courier and groat
Just On Line dailies and that varies from day to day depending on what's happening.
I used to take the Times, but that was before it joined the other comics and started putting news on the front page.
The Times with headlines just didn’t seem right, I never did get over the culture shock.
Sadly I don't have a daily any more. The postman delivers my papers (Courier and Groat) but if I wanted the Times, which is what I always had before coming up here, I wouldn't get it until next day and somehow that doesn't seem quite the same.
Oh Jaws - you are so right. Time was when the personal columns were almost the best part, you knew where you were and it was a respectable newspaper. Now it's almost a rag like the rest. [disgust] Fings ain't wot they used ter be. Sigh .....
Hi Crayola,
As with Angela and Golach, I read 2 dailies and therefore cannot take part.
Karia
For months rich has been encouraging me to read the Scotsman online to start the "getting aquainted with Scotland" routine. I prefer to check the org. Anything of importance is sure to get an airing in the forum and the various comments represent all I need to know.
But my life is changing.
I await the results of your poll, crayola, and may use that to make a decision about a regular newspaper. So Pepsi, golach, szin, Angela, boysintheband: are there morning papers available for home delivery in Edinburgh?
Why a closing date of March 2008?
dunderheed
20-Aug-07, 10:06
i used read the morning star (not the star), but cant seem to find it anywhere these days. is it still in production i wonder??
i now read the sun, herald and express. and up till very recently the p&j also.
I don't read papers they are to depressing:(
j4bberw0ck
20-Aug-07, 11:48
i used read the morning star
I haven't seen a Morning Star in years! Maybe the paper version went the way of the USSR, Berlin Wall, East Germany and International Socialism in general.
Found an online version here (http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index2.php/ex/examples) if you're interested. Enjoy.
I'll have a look at the Courier and Groat if the opportunity comes up, but i don't buy newspapers. I do sometimes have a looky online at the bbc website for news, but not often.
i hev til say am a daily star fan. tho since i got broadband i hevna hed a chance til pick up e paper. i do lek a kweek look at e daily mail too. i lek til see what jonothin crainer hes til say aboot what influences are in motion each day. sometimes i think he is writin specialy til me :eek:
dunderheed
20-Aug-07, 19:36
I haven't seen a Morning Star in years! Maybe the paper version went the way of the USSR, Berlin Wall, East Germany and International Socialism in general.
Found an online version here (http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index2.php/ex/examples) if you're interested. Enjoy.
jabber thank you vermuch for the link
about teh only things i read is the John o' Groat and caithness courier.
may have a peek at the sun while hubby is trying to read it
P&J for me. Local slant which suits me fine & the Page 3 photographs are usually decent.
usually read the sun and the star.
Thank you all for voting.
To those who devour two newspapers a day: if one is an evening paper such as the Evening Times in Glasgow please vote for your morning one. If both are morning papers, please, please, please vote for the one you'd keep if you were absolutely forced to give one up. Else we'll not have a representative sample.
Why the date far in the future? Look at the number of options and think how many responses we need to obtain a meaningful answer.
Luv
C x
Has anyone put themselves in 'news quarantine' for any length of time?:confused
I tried about 3 years ago but it is really hard without overhearing something.
Is there any chance of making this thread a 'sticky' like the Open University in Caithness one?
I would not waste the large amount of dosh required to buy their out of date lies! Yep not keen on newspapers!
Which newspaper would you buy if you had to buy one wifie?
If I really, really had to I suppose the Scotsman. But I think the place down below would have to freeze over first!
It was a bit chilly out tonight. Have you voted? :)
Thank you. I've posted lots of polls but this is the most tangible in so many ways.
lassieinfife
04-Sep-07, 16:24
will read any paper so long as someone else has bought it ....come with living in fife, getting as tight as them lol:lol:
I read the War Cry :) lol
percy toboggan
04-Sep-07, 18:29
Which newspaper do you read?
This poll is for UK residents only, I can't list every paper there is world wide!
Oh, come on....if a thing's worth doin':):Razz
Actually. my newspaper alludes to my gender.
You'll have to work it oot.
clue:spelt differently but sounds the same.
(You'd probably guessed anyway) ?
I don't read or buy any newspapers at all, I may have a quick squizz at the Groat from time to time but I would never pay to read it :roll:
The Daily Sport isn't on the list, not that I read it btw :roll:
I read the War Cry :) lol
I much prefer the Young Soldier! I don't read a dialy newspaper as such but surf the news online - use BBC and Al-Jazeera. Online papers I look at now and again include
The Guardian
The Telegraph
The Herald
The Scotsman
Belfast Telegraph
Sydney Morning Herald
Arab News
Very occasionaly I buy the Arab News and sometimes buy the Bahrain Tribune, Gulf Daily News and Khaleej Times.
peter macdonald
18-Oct-07, 23:30
You forgot your Rangers news Scotsboy
Hope all is well with you in the desert
PMhttp://forum.caithness.org/images/icons/icon7.gif
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stopping reading the Sun the main Gutter Press newspaper group because of the bigotry shown by them, for not printing the column by Kelvin McKenzie and the racist comments he makes in Scotlands issue of the Sun newspaper
Reading the Sun? I thought you owld mannies just looked at the pictures? But then the Sun hasn't been the same since Ms Fox left has it golach? :D
I was a Mirror girl myself. ;)
northener
19-Oct-07, 12:11
The Hootsmon for me.
Used to but the Independant in England, but it doesn't have enough Scots content in it for someone north o' the border.
Wouldn't trust the tabloids as far as i can puke.
Groat and Courier occasionally.
I wonder if our Sun readers feel that they fit the stereotypical Sun reader image?:confused
Which is ?
Please read about the Sun reader stereotype here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_MacKenzie
Ok - I scanned your link Rheghead but what are you trying to say - exactly?
Ok - I scanned your link Rheghead but what are you trying to say - exactly?
The thread is entitled 'Which newspaper do you read?'. Now I know a little about newspapers and the bias that runs through them and any particular newspaper will presumably attract a certain type of readership, a stereotype if you like? Does the readership beget the newspaper or does the paper eventually beget the reader? It is an interesting concept.
Of course I could jump on my sanctimonious pedestal and shout 'That is a generalisation!' or comment pithily that I should not judge a book by its cover but it would be naive to think that there aren't stereotypes in society. It all begins with following role models and copying other people's foibles, afterall, a role model is just another stereotype. And I just wondered if our Sun readers felt that they did fit the Sun reader stereotype as confirmation that the stereo type was actually a real tangible construct or a false one.
Following on from that, I imagine a Guardian reader to be an ex-hippy type who has gone respectable (but still wears cordrouys at weekends), a Times reader to be a bit toffee-nosed etc etc.
OK, I'll get my coat...
Until I became the victim, sorry, subject, of several newspaper stories I naively believed what was written in the press. Now, if I buy a newspaper, I deliberately try to decipher what some of the headlines mean. Boy, but the writers must be admired (for want of a better word) for their blatant misuse of the English language.
I remember seeing a sketch some years ago about interpreting newspaper headlines; it was hilarious! The most mundane stories were glorified with exotic wording but when you got down to it they often were very dull reading indeed.
I often feel sorry for the people who are the subject of such stories; words manipulated with little regard for their feelings. And the sad thing is, a lot of the readers fall for it and that is why it is perpetuated.
Like everything else with the media, sex, sensationalism etc., sells.
P.S. Rheghead, mine's a donkey jacket!
Following on from that, I imagine a Guardian reader to be an ex-hippy type who has gone respectable (but still wears cordrouys at weekends)
Oh dear! What an odd impression you must have of me, Rheg! :eek: :lol:
Oh dear! What an odd impression you must have of me, Rheg! :lol:
Angela maybe Rheg should subsitute "Cords" for a cashmere twin set, then he may be right? [lol]
...I often feel sorry for the people who are the subject of such stories; words manipulated with little regard for their feelings. And the sad thing is, a lot of the readers fall for it and that is why it is perpetuated.
Like everything else with the media, sex, sensationalism etc., sells.
P.S. Rheghead, mine's a donkey jacket!
And that is precisely why some very capable journalists have left the profession. They just cannot tolerate prying into private lives and having to write their stories that way.
Angela maybe Rheg should subsitute "Cords" for a cashmere twin set, then he may be right? [lol]
Not forgetting the string of pearls, golach.... ;)
The thread is entitled 'Which newspaper do you read?'. Now I know a little about newspapers and the bias that runs through them and any particular newspaper will presumably attract a certain type of readership, a stereotype if you like? Does the readership beget the newspaper or does the paper eventually beget the reader? It is an interesting concept.
Of course I could jump on my sanctimonious pedestal and shout 'That is a generalisation!' or comment pithily that I should not judge a book by its cover reader to be a bit toffee-nosed etc etc.
OK, I'll get my coat...
Keep digging
I sometimes buy a Sunday paper but apart from that I never buy a daily. I just check the news online.
The thread is entitled 'Which newspaper do you read?'. Now I know a little about newspapers <snip>
OK, I'll get my coat...
Yes - I think I undertood that, though maybe I am missing your point here. Or maybe you are deliberately avoiding my question.
I read the P&J. Please feel free to stereotype me. I'll help you with your coat....
Yes - I think I undertood that, though maybe I am missing your point here. Or maybe you are deliberately avoiding my question.
I read the P&J. Please feel free to stereotype me. I'll help you with your coat....
Hmm, Moira, I imagine you as the Assertive, Springboard type, career female, who maybe reads the P&J on the morning coffee break, but reads all the broadsheets on her laptop, but then again I could be wrong, I missed Angela's double string of pearls, from my assesment of her [lol]
How come you can only vote for one newspaper? I read the Scotsman, the Guardian, and the Telegraph (all courtesy of the internet) plus the New York Times, Salon and Slate (also via the internet.) Not to mention the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. I may be an unusual case because I have to spend the first hour of every working day reading in the media. The effect is a lot like been beaten to death with feather dusters, my eyes become amazingly heavy and I find I am thinking in headlines and it takes a strong brew of coffee to return me to normality or what passes for normality in my life..
On the bright side media wise, my tv set has been disconnected for two years.
So I have become a radio junky....
And it's not newspapers but of a similar ilk and that is e-mails.
I have just thrown out 3,334 e-mails.
My pod neighbour is up in the five and six thousands.
I dont know exactly how many e-mails come with attachments from newspapers but there must be a lot!
Perhaps we should declare a media free day.
How come you can only vote for one newspaper? ...........
my tv set has been disconnected for two years.
So I have become a radio junky....
Good point rich. I had assumed Crayola was referring to the physical copy of the only newspaper which is delivered here daily and I voted accordingly. I should have remembered what assuming things can lead to.
My tv set is still connected but I have very little interest in it. I, too, prefer the radio but confess my choice here is again "local radio". Moray Firth Radio during the day, which switches automatically to Caithness FM in the evening. As a matter of interest, are you able to pick up these radio stations by logging onto their websites?
Re. picking up radio stations from web sites - I believe you can do this. At least I can get our local jazz station in Toronto (which is not too ambitious because I live there.) My morning radio guy has been raving about a device (I-pod size or threabouts) that can bring in most radio stations in the world and will record them and store them.
I am going to drop my morning guy a line to get the info.
On the topic of radio, Germany and Austalia both have excellent services with a lot of features and science stuff that I enjoy. I'll keep you posted.
Loch not Lock
28-Feb-08, 10:04
The Racing Post is the only really useful newspaper if you want an "earner". Forty years experience is the only other requirement.
percy toboggan
28-Feb-08, 18:40
Interesting to see the Daily Mail doing quite well in this little poll.
It's enough for some to choke on their Corn Flakes.
A well written paper of record (almost always) and essential daily fodder for yours truly. I find it reflects my thoughts more often than vice versa...there are also several regular contributors who are first class in my opinion...and in something as subjective as choice of newspaper my opinion is the only one that matters, after all.
I don't believe everything I read, yet I do admire the Mail for being a thorn in the side of this Government, and for knocking the Tories as they struggled to regroup post Thatcher.
They gave Brown a good welcome , and acknowledged his early success, but now the gloves are off, partly because he's revealed himself incompetent.
Cameron is seen as someone with it all to prove.
I can't omit Clegg, although he is an irrelevance...the lib-dems will shortly be realising that like Newcastle United, they chose the wrong chap.
The Mail is not quite the Conservative House magazine as some perpetual knockers seem to believe.
It's readers not the Colonel Blimpish little Britishers either....although in a fast changing world I really rather relish being lumped in with anachronisms.
In closing, does anyone find it regtrettable that so many people do not find the time, or have the inclination to read a newspaper each day?
George Brims
28-Feb-08, 18:59
Goodness me. I would never have pegged Percy for a Mail reader. [/sarcasm off]
I find it depressing that 45% of people responding to this poll don't read a newspaper. That's about 30% reading none, and about 15% reading The Sun. (Darn it, my sarcasm button is stuck in "On")
Dear god, i cannot understand why anyone with a reasonably healthy-functioning brain would pay even the measly 20p or whatever it is to read that trash .... It's just lies, slander, phoney horoscopes and boobs!
I don't think i'd even use it as bedding for my hamster, incase the poor thing manages to read any of it!!!
Get my daily news online and local papers sent down to me.
Thank you everyone for taking part in this poll. The results have been most useful.
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