what newspaper?

The Bollox

what newspaper do you usually/always read? for me it's the Indo, just a habit I got from the oul fella. what about you?

Gone West

indo also.
and the local ones.
Occasionally the times for specific writers' articles.

Dagnir Glaurung

The Guardian. It's the best read for the price.

whassupp2

The indo during the week but the sunday indo is pure trash.

Doomspell

I like The Exaiminer during the week but I do like The Sunday Times.

jrey1981

Read several every day - generally the Mail, Sun and Indo, but then on a Monday I get the Guardian and the Irish Times on a Friday. Parents get two papers and brother gets one. Would probably alternate between the Indo and the Irish Times, if I was buying them.

Also read the UK Indy and Guardian every day on their websites.

Sundays I read 4 actual newspapers - again my parents get three and my brother gets one - and 3 online, which I read. Again, I would probably only get the Sindo and the Sunday Times if I was paying for them!

It's newspaper overload in our house tbh.

emeraldstar

Always the Independent. It's the only one I read really. I HATE tabloids with a passion. My grandmother gets the Irish Times and sometimes a local paper, so I'd read those very occasionally if I was over at her house, but in my house my dad always buys the papers and he always gets the Indo. I prefer it.

NADA

I would only read the Times or the Sun because they do be in my house. I just like the sun. It's really quite laughable! It's full of interesting ****! I read more books and magazines than papers though. Also should this not be in the Literature Forum?

Agamemnon

Examiner and Sunday Times as well.

Zapp Brannigan

Anything but The Sun, I've inherited the prejudice towards it.

the Shades

The Irish Times and due to freebies on the train, metro and herald am which are both mostly full of rubbish lol increased my trivia to throw into conversations times though

JC 2K3

emeraldstar wrote:

I HATE tabloids with a passion.

Then why do you buy the Indo?


I read the Indo every Saturday cos my mom buys it but it's really pretty crap.

I get my news from various sources online.

dango

^^ got there before me. Darn. The Times FTW

mikemac

The indo. Although I usualy read it on unison.ie

I wonder why the Irish Times doesn't bring out a compact version. It's the best thing the indo ever did

The paper I can't stand is the Evening Herald. Every lunchtime as I walk through town I see the latest headline for the Herald on the newspaper stands they have around town.
What a rag!

Gone West

college have a subscription to the indo, makes it really handy.

Dave!

My parents buy the Herald every day, so I usually end up reading that and getting p*ssed off at how much of a rag it is.....

cianr

I find the Irish Times the best.

Plug

Sunday world for me.

emeraldstar

JC 2K3 wrote:

Then why do you buy the Indo?

would you call the Indo a tabloid?? I wouldn't. Ok then i hate "sensationalist" papers like The Sun, Mirror, etc etc.... the way they put supposedly 'sensational' words and phrases in bold or italics in the middle of articles really grates on me.
Or maybe I'm just easily annoyed!!

PS: I DON'T actually buy it, my dad does!!

nlgbbbblth

Monday to Saturday
Irish Times
Guardian

Sunday
Observer
Sunday Tribune
sometimes get Sunday Business Post

I think the red-top OIRISH tabloids are appalling and seriously question why people would chose to buy them.

Especially seeing as how they hype up the England soccer team's chances. Funny how a lot of those Sun / Mirror readers (who are also Premiership / SPL supporters) hate the England team with a passion - and usually cite the arrogant English media as the reason.:rolleyes:

Rhyme

Herald AM and the Metro as i can pick them up on the way to work for free... and they have Sudoku

ThrownAway

The Echo and The Examminer


Worst newspaper EVER = The Sun It insults my intelligence to read it

Dirk Gently

The odd time I might check out the times and indo online but The Guardian is the only paper I actually buy regularly in the shops.

the Shades

emeraldstar wrote:

would you call the Indo a tabloid?? I wouldn't. Ok then i hate "sensationalist" papers like The Sun, Mirror, etc etc.... the way they put supposedly 'sensational' words and phrases in bold or italics in the middle of articles really grates on me.
Or maybe I'm just easily annoyed!!

PS: I DON'T actually buy it, my dad does!!

I can think of no other way of describing it. The shoddy journalism, minimum attention to facts, badly written english, bad editing and sniping at every other paper in the country make it an intolerable read almost adolescent in tone and approach. The only thing that seperates it from being as identifiable as the others as a tabloid is the lack of red top and randomly highlighted words throughout articles in bold.

muletide

I used to read the Indo but I found that they always went for the sensationalist slant in a story. They seem to want to include any bit of scandal they can and they have too many personal agendas ( yes I know every paper has an agenda) for my liking especially the Sunday edition so for me the Times is your only man good solid objective reporting and a serious interest in world affairs

muletide

Plug wrote:

Sunday world for me.

god help you

The Bollox

NADA wrote:

should this not be in the Literature Forum?

do you considir the news to be literature?

muletide

Marts wrote:

do you considir the news to be literature?

well there is plenty of fiction in the indo

Ruu_Old

Its the Indo for Ruu.

muletide

Ruu wrote:

Its the Indo for Ruu.

ahhh no ruu I tought you were better than that

Ruu_Old

muletide wrote:

ahhh no ruu I tought you were better than that

Only joking, News of the World* ftw!



*shudder

RobertFoster

I don't read newspapers. I don't watch the news either. If the news is newsworthy, somebody will tell me.

muletide

Ruu wrote:

Only joking, News of the World* ftw!



*shudder

I shuder too

Black Swan

The Economist, although it is formatted like a magazine, they sometimes refer to themselves as a newspaper.

r3nu4l

NADA wrote:

should this not be in the Literature Forums?

Actually it should probably be here


The Irish Times for me or if my local shop in Cambridge doesn't have any copies left then the Guardian.

Ohyeah

Monday to Friday

The Irish Examiner- a paper that despite my anti Cork bias has really grown on me. Some of the reporting is excellent and the front pages can be amazing.

Daily Ireland the politics of the paper are a more than a little greener than mine, but some of the writing is excellent and you read things you will find no-where else. I think it is good to have a none mainstream daily.

The Guardian- somedays, class paper but sooooo :eek: much in it its impossible to read it all

Sunday.
The Sunday Indo- I dont like the paper in many ways but I like some of the writers..
The Sunday Trib is decent and sometimes if I am feeling very high brow I get the Sunday Buisness Post

Lump

This was done a few months ago, I normally read the Guardian especially on a Saturday. I happen to buy the Sunday Independent, purely because it's the only Irish papaer sold in the shop nearest to me, and Brendan O' Conner makes me laugh. (I live in London BTW)

John

1huge1

irish independent and the sunday times

Pythia

The Irish Times, although I find it's full of bleeding heart liberal journos.

Nightwish

Monday - Saturday is the Indo. I dont buy a Sunday paper, cos they're all sh1te. I used to read the Tribune when Matt Cooper was editor.

Léan

During the week - The Examiner.
But at the weekend, The Sunday Times and The Sunday Tribune.

Franky Boy

Times ftw!Can't ****ing stand anything else.Independent has become far too sensationalist and it's just not worth the read imo!