What daily paper do you read and does it say something about you as a person?

[CockneyMafia]

I read the Sun during the week, and the Observer on a Sunday.

 

Why do I buy the Sun? Well for one, I only have about 10 minutes in the morning to read something, so it would be pointless buying a broadsheet. So, the sports pages, Dear Deadrie and Striker! give me my daily dose of banal titilation, and a pleasant divertion from the filth and poverty where I live.

 

If I want something more informed, there are plenty of online news sites to read at work.

 

I buy the Observer for the "monthly" magazines, which are excellent.

 

As a footnote, is there any reason to beleive that someone who reads the Sun, is any more decieved than someone who reads the Mail, Express or Guardian. I think not personally. They all have there own biased agenda.

[melthebell]

i only buy papers when theres a free dvd / cd

or when i need the jobs pages (local paper)

[Sultana]

I don't read a newspaper at all. What does this say about me?

[Lester_Bigot]

Daily Mail = good columns, opinions etc

 

Sheffield Star = On Thursday, jobs

 

 

I saw a youth buy a Sunday Sport the other week, he was so nervous that when the Shopkeeper, gave him his change, he dropped all his money on the floor.

 

He just left the shop without picking up his money

 

Shame on you young man

[JoeP]

Normally if I buy a newspaper it's The Times.

 

I read The Sun most days as there's always copies in the office.

 

You get a totally different view of the world from reading the two different types of newspaper - if you want to get a 'gut' feel, read a 'traditional tabloid. If you want a 'head' approach, read one of the oldstyle broadsheets (despite them now coming in 'compact' form

[nick2]

I read Metro, it's free.

[Macca]

I tend to read the Guardian, if I buy a paper.

 

Had a bit of a stare down on a train on Saturday though. I was sat in the part of the train where the disabled space and the toilets are. There are only two seats in this section, they're about 10ft apart and they face each other.

I was nice and settled reading my paper, when a middle aged chap got on the train in Manchester and sat in the second seat. He unfolded his copy of the Torygraph, and proceeded to fix me with an icy glare from over the top of the paper whenever he could.....bizarre, but funny.

He even made a big deal of offering his paper to the guard when we pulled into Lime St, before the guard had reached me. I was very tempted to gazump him, but I was too tired

 

 

(Oh and if I want to have a laugh, I'll pick up a copy of the Mail - it always makes me smile)

[AtticusFinch]

I don't regularly buy a newspaper (I read online versions and blogs instead), but when I do it's the Guardian. I don't agree with everything they write, especially not the blind support for New Labour that Toynbee, Kettle etc show, but I choose it by a process of elimination:

 

I can't stand tabloid newspapers. I think it's dirty journalism. They're full of sensationalism, fear-mongering, emotionally manipulative "why did they have to die?" articles and mindless celebrity worship. That's not what journalism should be about. I agree that all newspapers have agendas, but the agendas of tabloids are just so blatant. I don't want Rupert Murdoch's world view rammed down my throat as I try and find out the day's news. For this reason I don't read the S*n, Mirror or Star (especially not the S*n as I'm a Liverpool fan).

 

The Mail and Express might not be red-top tabloids, but they're still tabloids and they're too sensationalist. The Times is a Murdoch paper, the Telegraph is a tory paper and the Independent is also a bit sensationalist with overly-simplistic headlines splashed over the full front page. That leaves only the Guardian.

 

My favourite publication is Private Eye though, and I'm a subscriber to it. Private Eye is what journalism should be - investigative, fearless and not shirking from stories that affect corporate friends of the editor. Private Eye has more teeth than any of the regular daily newspapers, and often you read stuff in there that either appears months later in the daily press or doesn't appear at all. Their "Street of Shame" section regularly exposes the hypocrisy and sleaziness of the daily newspapers. For example, just hours after the Bahrain ferry disaster earlier this year, the S*n rang up the parents of one of the dead Britons before the Foreign Office had contacted them or they'd even heard about it and said "Hi, your son is dead. Can we get your comment on that?"

[KJ_VENOM]

i'll read the metro when i can get hold of one if i'm forced to buy a paper its the sun but i have an annoying habit whatever paper i read i read every last word (except the numerous phone adverts) and do the sodoku before i can put it down

[Grandad.Malky]

I read the Sun during the week,

 

I agree with your sentiments, if I have a meal break, get the sun read the front/back page and flick through the rest.

 

If I want a newspaper I would read the Mail, some interesting articles but too many adverts especially at the weekend.