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The Independent or sometimes the Guardian. Though have to say like people above I read most of my news on the old internet now, The Register, The Inquirer (internet tabloid
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Hhmmm another Independent reader here. They only have circulation of about 300,000 , so we seem to have a high proportion on this board
read the broadsheets online now guardian, sydney morning herald etc
, haven't bought a "paper" paper in years
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Read the register online and the Sun, just because it is in the workplace
I get an evening local paper free because my son has a spare from his paper round. I rarely read any paper, cannot stand editorial embellishment - give me the facts.
The local paper might as well be the Daily Mail by sea for it's dreadful right wing stance on most issues.
I used to buy the Guardian but it's editorials and columnists pi$$ed me off with their fence sitting on the Iraq invasion, so I started buying the Independent, plus it has Robert Fisk and used to carry articles by Edward Said.
I do miss the Guardians supplements which were definately a bit younger and hipper but the Independent is generally better, plus i read the Guardian online in work.
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
Ditto... I should leave you a message in it!Originally Posted by Big Leon
I also read London Lite and thelondonpaper on the way home, it's war for the free papers in our fair capital.
I'll read the mirror, independent, times if anyone leaves them behind on the train or if dad gets one free in first class.
The Sun, Sunday Times.
Lots of Guardian readers on the forums I see... what a supprise.
The Times for me. I don't really get a choice since that's what my household gets anyway, but I still read the Times when I get a choice. Occasionally read the Independent or Guardian.
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
When i buy a paper it is the Independant. I read The Press & Journal (the local morning daily) when i'm offshore and if my Mum gets one (Tuesdays is property supliment).
Used to read the Scotland on Sunday, but it is a load of trash that thinks it is better than other sunday papers.
Most places don't get the Independant offshore, so i usually flick through the Times, Guardian, (Glasgow) Herald or Scotsman. If i'm really bored i sometimes pick up a Sun, but that usually lists about 30 seconds.
Daily Mail for me Mon - Fri
Press and Journal on Saturday
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I read whatever I can find on my bus while I'm checking it for lost property. The only news journal I always buy is the Private Eye.
If I've got a long lunchbreak and nothing to do I tend to buy the Guardian; for 70p it'll easily kill well over an hour. My parents (latterly just my mum) have taken the Independent since about 1988, so I used to always read that, but recently it's begun to strike me as the worst kind of misguided wimpy liberalism- the single issue front pages (with which I tend to strongly disagree) have put me right off it. Admittedly the Guardian has a tendency to kiss the New Labour backside, but it's not so serious as to spoil my reading.
When something interesting is going on in the financial markets I get the FT. It's a surprisingly good read. Costs a pound though, which is a bit steep for a tightwad like me.
At the weekend if I'm getting a paper I just get the one with the best free gift. There's sod all to choose between all the broadsheets in terms of the quality of their editorial IMO.
I used to use the Metro until I started cyclying into work.
I now use BBC news.
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Mainly the Guardian and sometimes the Independent after swiftly skipping the front page.
On the rare occasions when I'm round my parents, the paranoia of the Daily Mail is always a good laugh.
If I'm on the tube, then I like to shout at the Metro (Not literally - wouldn't want to make a scene). But it definitely isn't a quality paper, it's infuriating, badly researched old news (How often do you read a story in both the metro and the London lite on the same day?
I used to get the independent, but I just don't read all of it. And I still have a subscription to New Scientist, essential reading in the smallest room.
They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them.
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