Which newspapers do CCers read?

[ChrisKH]

The Metro.
It is a free 'urban-national' paper that is favoured by commuters as it is often found on buses and trains. I guess it is Londoncentric-national as many of the letters and texts are London based but the paper is available in other cities.
There is a strong Nemi following though how some readers can claim to be in love with a cartoon Goth I don't know. Her friend with the blue hair is much more interesting!

I always thought there was something "Claud-esque" in the Nemi character. Don't ask me why.

 

[goo_mason]

I used to read the Scotsman years ago but it went downhill and once they started covering celeb stories on the front page or on page 2, I stopped wasting my money. I buy the Weekend Scotsman now simply for the week's telly schedules.

I get my news online these days from the BBC, and read the Edinburgh Evening News online for the amusement gained from the daily anti-tram story and the mindless, poorly-spelled, poorly thought-out, raging comments from the same people day in, day out.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

So: to the people claiming that all newspapers are 'sensationalist' and you don't read any...

1. how do you know? and
2. how do you find out what's going on in the world?

 

[mangaman]

I read The Kingston Whig-Standard (my utterly terrible local), The Globe and Mail (Canadian), Guardian, New York Times, Le Monde (France) and Asahi Shimbun (Japan) on a regular basis (one a week catch up in the case of the last three. I read The Daily Telegraph when I visit my parents, which is rather like visiting a parallel universe (that's the reading the Telegraph bit, rather than visiting my parents).

At the moment, I'm sticking to Al-Jazeera online to find out what's really going in in the Middle East.

Of course Le Monde / Al Jazeera / Guardian /NY Times are all well and good - but the Kingston Whig-Standard is surely the newspaper of record.

I logged in to see what's happening your way and clicked on the "what's up" linky and arrived at this rather forlorn / windswept page.

http://www.thewhig.com/SearchCat.aspx?cid=567&cname=What's+Up

There must be something happening? (mind you the weather does look a touch nippy)

 

[Glow worm]

So: to the people claiming that all newspapers are 'sensationalist' and you don't read any...

1. how do you know? and
2. how do you find out what's going on in the world?

I am a newspaper fan though my favourite read - The Guardian- is probably not thought of as being particularly sensationalist, although one could argue of course about the paper's political agenda. It's a good question though as I don't read tabloids, mainly because I consider them too into celebrity tittle tattle which is just not my bag- but if I don't read'em- how can I judge? The only time I pick them up is say waiting in my local Chinese takeaway- probably not enough time to judge fairly, although a quick glance normally confirms some of my predjudices! I don't think I have ever bought the Daily Star or The Express for example as I judge them to be crap- (maybe unfairly?) so you may have a point!

The current issue of Viz, that great bastion of high brow thought describes in Roger's Profanasaurus (P.41), what it calls the 'f*ck off moment'. In this case, meaning how long one can listen to radio's 'Thought for The Day' in the morning, before yelling 'f*ck off!' at the radio. (Normally just a few seconds of course). I must admit, the same rule applies when I browse my mother in-law's copy of the Daily Mail. For me, the f*ck off moment normally arrives fairly sharpish! Strangely though, I rarely get the f*ck off moment when I read the Telegraph, despite it's political leanings being slightly at odds with my own, it's generally quite well written and clearly not aimed at a celebrity obsessed audience or out to terrify everyone about just about everything!

 

[Glow worm]

The Metro.
It is a free 'urban-national' paper that is favoured by commuters as it is often found on buses and trains. I guess it is Londoncentric-national as many of the letters and texts are London based but the paper is available in other cities.
There is a strong Nemi following though how some readers can claim to be in love with a cartoon Goth I don't know. Her friend with the blue hair is much more interesting!

Cheers NT - It's one that's passed me by. I'm off to London in March for a weekend so will have a look at it, especially if it's free!

 

[Fab Foodie]

The Daily Telegraph is my newspaper of choice.

I read the free Daily Wail when I'm on aeroplanes so that I can arrive in a foreign country seething with indignation and loathing foreigners.

I also pick-up a copy of the London Evening Standard on my way back through Heathrow.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I logged in to see what's happening your way and clicked on the "what's up" linky and arrived at this rather forlorn / windswept page.

http://www.thewhig.com/SearchCat.aspx?cid=567&cname=What's+Up

There must be something happening? (mind you the weather does look a touch nippy)

The Whig-Standard was once a proper paper with foreign correspondants and everything. Then it was bought by Conrad Black, who gutted the paper, fired most of the staff etc. Then he sold it on to Sun Media, who are Canada's equivalent of Fox, who have reduced the staff further and rely mainly on agency copy and their nationally-syndicated ****wit columnists.

It's not known as the Sub-Standard for nothing...

 

[krushavik]

I only get the Mail on Saturday because its got a good TV guide for the week. I don't read because most of the stuff in it makes my blood boil.

 

[mangaman]

The Whig-Standard was once a proper paper with foreign correspondants and everything. Then it was bought by Conrad Black, who gutted the paper, fired most of the staff etc. Then he sold it on to Sun Media, who are Canada's equivalent of Fox, who have reduced the staff further and rely mainly on agency copy and their nationally-syndicated ****wit columnists.

It's not known as the Sub-Standard for nothing...

The Conrad Black / Fox connections don't surprise.

The website is rubbish - very heavy on advertising and light on content!

I was hoping for more homespun tales of village life - but as you say it appeared to be full of national / State opinion pieces.

Mind you it's telling me it's -17 degrees at the moment ; I hope you're well insulated.

 

[Gixxerman]

Don't read any. Use t'internet.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Mind you it's telling me it's -17 degrees at the moment ; I hope you're well insulated.

It's warmer than it was this morning (-24 or -30 with wind chill).

 

[darkstar]

If I ever buy a paper, it tends to be the Times. Have a glance through the metro if there's a copy on the bus when at Uni, or the Local paper back home for the local sports.

 

[Ian H]

Guardian, occasionally Independent, sometimes Telegraph. Various local rags. Private Eye and, irregularly, other mags.