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Do people read the paper anymore?

  • 13-01-2010 8:07pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭


    Back in the day, in my household, a paper was got every day. It would be read cover to cover (by me). On a Sunday, two papers would be got - "The Rag" aka the Sunday World and the Indo. Again read cover to cover. Did me no harm as a young lad. Can safely say it helped me to read better.

    Fast forward 15 years, there's still one paper bought during the week and up to 4 bought on a Sunday!

    Is this common anymore in households?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    im the only one who buys a paper in my house and thats only for the racing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Paper? Do you mean pay per? As in pay per hour?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Oliver1985


    Evening Hearld every day and the sunday world on a sunday!! No morning papers as there crap!!:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    The newspaper is 50% sport and 20% ads. I'm not paying for a load of shyte I don't want when I can just read the good stuff online


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭InKonspikuou2


    I still buy the paper for the horoscopes. Fergus Gibson has been my path to enlightenment for many a year now. The power is either in his glasses or ginger goatee.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭K-Ren


    We get the Mirror in our house most days.

    What will that delightful Dave Storry do next?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    Only when they have something free in them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    The local weekly paper. Don't usually buy the larger national papers

    Your local paper will have the news you won't find elsewhere


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Why buy something thats free on the net??


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Would not read the paper very often myself, get most of my news online

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Ill take a notion to buy a newspaper maybe about once a fortnight.

    Parents buy it every day and at least two local rags every week as well. Dont understand how anyone has the time or money to read so much shyte (especially the Sundays)

    Get most of my news from radio or the internet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I buy papers only to read on the Luas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,222 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I usually buy the NOTW on Sunday's. The odd week day I will buy a tabloid to skim through it. With the internet so easily available the need for the paper is shrinking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    stepbar wrote: »
    "The Rag" aka the Sunday World and the Indo

    Term appies to both those papers tbh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭steph1


    I think sales of newspapers must be dropping big time now that most people are on the net. I was in my local garage late one night and the staff were taking the papers off the shelves and taking the bar code from each one. There was some amount of papers going back. I asked the girl could I have one without the bar code and she said they used to do that but they have been told that the whole paper has to go back now. I buy a paper on the odd occasion or when there is a cd or dvd that I would like. They are too expensive and are full of ads and rubbish. Would buy the local county paper more often as its only out weekly and you get all the local news.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    My parents still buy the Times every day and the local paper every week. I read the Times online every few days, don't see the point in buying it when the content is free!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    stepbar wrote: »
    On a Sunday, two papers would be got - "The Rag" aka the Sunday World and the Indo.
    That's two rags.

    Edit: whiskeyman got in there before me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭slipss


    Oliver1985 wrote: »
    Evening Hearld every day and the sunday world on a sunday!! No morning papers as there crap!!:eek:

    Have to love the Evening Herald. Wasn't their front page headline on the 12th of september 2001 "Billy from Jobstown likes sugar on his cornflakes"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭steph1


    jokettle wrote: »
    My parents still buy the Times every day and the local paper every week. I read the Times online every few days, don't see the point in buying it when the content is free!

    These things are free for the minute but if sales drop any more they will start charging for these sites. I did a survey the other day from the independent which popped up while I was browsing the paper and one of the questions was would I use the site if I had to pay for it. Needless to say I said no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,588 ✭✭✭Bluetonic


    Oliver1985 wrote: »
    Evening Hearld every day and the sunday world on a sunday!! No morning papers as there crap!!:eek:
    So just crap in the evening.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Sometimes buy a paper on the weekend , if only to read some intresting article that might catch my eye but in general the tabloids are just full of crap .The Irish sunday independent I read online ever week .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭gerry28


    yeah get 2 papers every sunday and one on sat none during the week.

    My parents would get at least 10 papers a week


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    I buy the Irish Examiner regularly enough, but Sundays are a dead loss with feck-all worth buying or reading.....maybe the Tribune if they've broken some big story.

    The Sunday Independent should just go ahead and print it's name on a red banner....the amount of exaggeration and bull**** I've read in that beats most tabloids.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭ashyle


    We buy the Herald every evening (I hate the trash that does be in it, but there's no other evening newspapers). I usually pick up the Irish Times when I'm in college cos it's cheap there. Saturday we buy the Irish Times, Guardian. Sunday, we have Sunday Trib, the Observer, Sunday Times (in an ideal world I take to my bed with the review sections and the magazines...bliss)
    I browse the news online throughout the day but I like to do a crossword in real life too :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭ashyle


    Oh and the Echo...for the court stories and pictures of 21sts and anniversary parties... good for a giggle :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    We get the Evening Hearld and Indo free every week day and then Sunday Indo and Sunday NOTW on eh, Sundays..

    I miss the Sunday Times in the house though. Style magazine RAWKS.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    steph1 wrote: »
    They are too expensive and are full of ads and rubbish.

    Most of them are €1 now. And ads are how newspapers get their money, no ads means no news. Also the online versions of newspapers are financed by money taken in through the print versions. Stop buying newspapers and it'll ruin online news.

    You will eventually have to pay for online content, this is a certainty.

    [edit]Oh, and I'd read the Guardian & Irish Times during the week, Sunday Times on a sunday. And the local paper but that's a total rag.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 JimmyTwoTimes


    Yeah, most days I get the papers, get the papers.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    I read the S*n every day, well the back 4 or 5 pages anyway, the rest - muck.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Either the Indo or the Times is got in my place every day. I wouldnt actively look at the news on the web. I still like a paper but wouldnt necessarily buy one every day meself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,895 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    i have about 15 rss feeds via rainmeter on my desktop instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Newspapers : An antiquated method of reading yesterdays news in a sensationalized manner, interspersed with boring adverts and an ancient form of blogging called 'columns' written by people who couldn't make it as real journalists.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    I only buy a Sunday paper these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭Alessandra


    My family buy 1 or 2 papers per day. I used to read the Times most days at college. That's much hassle now so I catch up with news online and buy the Sunday Times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,099 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    Yeah, most days I get the papers, get the papers.
    :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    Cant beat finishing off somebody elses half finished crossword over a pint of guinness after a days work.. great wind-down.. also cant beat the sunday world when dying of hangover over a big fry-up and coffee!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭gerry28


    Yeah, most days I get the papers, get the papers.

    good fella jimmy


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    I buy the CORK Examiner regularly enough, but Sundays are a dead loss with feck-all worth buying or reading.....maybe the Tribune if they've broken some big story.

    The Sunday Independent should just go ahead and print it's name on a red banner....the amount of exaggeration and bull**** I've read in that beats most tabloids.

    :p.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    OctavarIan wrote: »
    Stop buying newspapers and it'll ruin online news.

    You will eventually have to pay for online content, this is a certainty.

    True to a point (unless they find a way to make online newspapers survive solely on advertising/sponsorship) but newspapers arent the only folks doing online news. Broadcasters (and others) are in on the game too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    I get my news from AH


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 i_inky


    I'd read the Indo, the Times and the FT every day (get them in work).
    Never really enjoy reading the paper on line except if it is to just grab the headlines.

    (and I agree the Sindo is just pure and utter rubbish. It only exists to keep Rosanna Davison in a "job")


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭jif


    whats this 'paper' you talk of?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Yeah, most days I get the papers, get the papers.

    Say hi to Nicky Eyes for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭pretty-in-pink


    The local paper, otherwise no. I prefer to read books. and the interwebs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    True to a point (unless they find a way to make online newspapers survive solely on advertising/sponsorship) but newspapers arent the only folks doing online news. Broadcasters (and others) are in on the game too.

    I was referring to online newspapers, should have clarified that in my post sorry!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 49 Soil Mechanic


    Up North,
    get the 'Final' of the Belfast Telegraph most weekdays, never on a Saturday, then my Sunday ritual of a long dander to the shops for the Sundy Tribune (national) & the Sunday Life (local).
    Also the weekly Ulster Star for local events.

    ^
    agree with most the the other posters re: quality (or lack thereof) of most newspapers -it is actually quite difficult to get a hard objective factual content paper, as opposed to say, at both extremes, the likes of the Sunday Indo (long rambling "ego-piece" columns. e.g. "In myyyy opinion...";"It is well known..." or the classic "Surely all honest/right-thinking/reasonable etc ad nauseum people would agree that...." ) & the Sunday World (light, constantly repetitive phrases with very little elaboration or in depth research. e.g. "GASP! LOOK AT THIS! SHOCKING!" with obligitary pretty lady byline..... )

    Q. whilst not wishing to get into the merits of whether certain 'Nationals' are really local to some places or not, what are folks experiences of their own local/regional papers like regarding quality by comparison?

    Feel free to post the Title banner headlines/frontpages!

    Also re: online content vs. bought Newspaper, that is very akin to the Kindle debate - can an electronic format really substitute for the printed word?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    I buy sometimes a Sunday paper that is not full of the usual dead brainfodder for the masses, crap.
    Those available rags during the week I avoid faster than my ex-wife and a frying pan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    That's two rags.

    Edit: whiskeyman got in there before me.
    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Term appies to both those papers tbh

    Not back in the day it wasn't. It got caught up with the Celtic Tiger and as the media would say "ran with it".....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    It's funny now...... when in Dublin I might purchase a "working" weekly paper once a month and if I'm in Dublin during the weekend, the Sunday Business Post is my paper of choice. Great paper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    stepbar wrote: »
    Back in the day, in my household, a paper was got every day. It would be read cover to cover (by me). On a Sunday, two papers would be got - "The Rag" aka the Sunday World and the Indo. Again read cover to cover. Did me no harm as a young lad. Can safely say it helped me to read better.

    Fast forward 15 years, there's still one paper bought during the week and up to 4 bought on a Sunday!

    Is this common anymore in households?

    I buy the indo 2-3 times a week. Always on Sunday. I'm 18 so I get a bit of stick for reading a big broadsheet :( but when I read The Star that my dad buys I want to bang my head off the table. Having a single page of politics in the middle of sixteen pages of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears is laughable. I think they only put it in there so they can still call themselves a newspaper.

    And the Opinion, Columns and Lifestyle sections in the Indo and Irish Times are WAY better! :p


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