Newspapers

[Brad]

I see today (at least in the North) The Sun has reduced its price to 25p. This is now 10p cheaper than the second biggest seller, the Daily Mirror. I wonder if there will be another newspaper price war like there was about ten years ago when you could buy most papers for about 10p including The Times. What paper(s) do you read and why do you read them? Do you go for a paper on style, content, political bias or the amount of tits in it (this includes Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson) Do you buy a tabliod and a broadsheet? Have you become a broadsheet reader now The Times and The Independent have become compact?
I have become disillusioned with the Daily Mirror lately having it read it on and off for a few years as although they are Labour supporting and I am not (although I was when I started reading it, but then weren't we all? )I just liked the format, but lately this fawning over Blair, constant jibes at other parties and it's pro-Europe bias, I've just become tired of its editorial acting like a spoilt schoolkid. Shame, as I had a letter published in there last week. Murdoch's papers have become less and less supportive of the government lately despite their deflection to the left back in the mid 90's before Labour came to power.
More importantly, why does every paper have that god-awful clueless codebreaker type crossword in it that I find impossible to do?

[nwtv2003]

I rarely read papers, usually I can never be arsed paying for them, if we go to the library at college there's usually 'The Times' and so we read that, but say if I get the bus I don't mind picking up the free Metro North West.

Talking about Newspaper wars, we were in Manchester the other week and you could get a full Manchester Evening News, full with Jobs and Sport and a free edition of 'TV Satellite and Week' all for 10p, what a bargain! Does anyone remember 'Today', as that was a shite newspaper which was probably most famous for collapsing!

Usually read the Warrington Guardian on Thursdays and we get the ad full Guardian Midweek pushed through on Tuesdays, that provide bugger all news, if they had a Warrington Daily it would fail big time.

[Gavin Scott]

I read Metro Scotland for free. I have the occassional glance at someone else's Sun, but only for a bit of sleb rubbish.

[dvboy]

I get most of my news online, but pick up the Guardian on a Monday for a proper browse through the Media supplement. Sometimes I pick up the Lincolnshire Echo or read it in a takeaway. We get Lincoln Chronicle and Target and sometimes Gazette (nostalgia paper) shoved though the door weekly.

[johnnyboy]

I read the Times mainly, but I also read the Guardian and Independent from time to time.

My choice of newspaper is actually dictated by how even-handed I find the coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - ie, those newspapers that remember there is a brutal, illegal and repressive occupation and that one side has helicopter gunships and the other has stones and the occasional suicide bomber.

I don't really read the tabloids, or what we traditionally think of the tabloids.

Although, like Gavin, I am partial to a bit of Metro when I am on the Metro.

[tillyoshea]

I read either The Grauniad or The Times, and when at home I occassionally look through the Mail. I also read the Guardian Weekly, and, in terms of news magazines, Time (very occasionally) and Private Eye. I read the BMA News, too, but I think that's stretching the definition a little too far...

[Chris]

I usually read the Metro every morning as I get copies from the station before getting on the train (when there are some there). If I can't get one at the station then there are usually lots of 'second hand' copies sitting on the train which I can peruse, provided that some cleaner hasn't binned them! .

I sometimes read the Grauniad and Daily Mail at college. At weekends I usually buy the Express or the Mirror depending on what's inside them before I part with my cash.

I usually don't buy the Sunday papers because of all the bumpf that comes with them and the cost!

Also I read the weekly local rag that gets pushed through my door at weekends but usually there isn't much news to report about in this area - well certainly not anything interesting anyway ... zzz ... zzz ...

Do you buy a tabliod and a broadsheet? Have you become a broadsheet reader now The Times and The Independent have become compact?

If there is one thing I hate, it is reading a broadsheet on a packed commuter train. It's near impossible without managing to hit the person on the other side of you with your paper. And don't get me started on the new 'Desiro' trains that SWT have recently introduced ... they really have taken the idea of love thy neighbour a little too far - the carriages are extremely cramped than the older ones and you pretty much sit squashed next to your fellow commuter when all the seats are all full because they are not wide enough people's legs and bums often hang off the half the seat if they're sitting at the end of the seat nearest to the gangway ... and the aisles are probably no wider than that a small TV set.

[stu]

I used to read the metro - was my favourite newspaper at one point as it was free and had staples to hold it together!

I only read my local paper now, to see who's vandalised what

[Brad]

What's The Grauniad?! Never heard of it! Is it a regional only paper like the Daily Record? (The Scottish equivalent of the Daily Mirror)

I'd forgotten about the Metro. Yes, it's quite good although I can't read it on the bus as it makes me ill. But staples are certainly a benefit. Shame other papers don't go down that route!

I did buy something called The Weekly News the other week, merely as I was bored and on holiday. It seems to be aimed at a middle aged female Cliff Richard fan who also likes Daniel O'Donnell and would want to win a To The Manor Born video (not DVD as modern technolgy would confuse her) and send off for their 'free pendant for every reader' offer. Thanks but no thanks. Mock gold just isn't me.
Needless to say, that was my only purchase of The Weekly News. The picture of Leanne Battersby on the cover should have been a warning sign anyway.

[MarkN]

What's The Grauniad?! Never heard of it!

It's this.

[Brad]

Doh! The penny ordps!