Do people read the paper anymore?

stepbar · 13-01-2010 08:07PM #1

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?

admiralofthefleet · 13-01-2010 08:08PM

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

minidazzler · 13-01-2010 08:08PM

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

Oliver1985 · 13-01-2010 08:10PM

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

phasers · 13-01-2010 08:10PM

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

InKonspikuou2 · 13-01-2010 08:11PM

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.

K-Ren · 13-01-2010 08:12PM

We get the Mirror in our house most days.

What will that delightful Dave Storry do next?!

BluesBerry · 13-01-2010 08:13PM

Only when they have something free in them

mikemac · 13-01-2010 08:15PM

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

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

Senna · 13-01-2010 08:15PM

Why buy something thats free on the net??

GLaDOS · 13-01-2010 08:16PM

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

Mike 1972 · 13-01-2010 08:16PM

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

OutlawPete · 13-01-2010 08:18PM

I buy papers only to read on the Luas.

walshb · 13-01-2010 08:18PM

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

whiskeyman · 13-01-2010 08:19PM

stepbar wrote: »

"The Rag" aka the Sunday World and the Indo

Term appies to both those papers tbh

steph1 · 13-01-2010 08:20PM

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.

jokettle · 13-01-2010 08:20PM

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!

El Weirdo · 13-01-2010 08:20PM

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.

slipss · 13-01-2010 08:21PM

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"?

steph1 · 13-01-2010 08:22PM

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.

Bluetonic · 13-01-2010 08:22PM

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.

Latchy · 13-01-2010 08:23PM

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 .

gerry28 · 13-01-2010 08:40PM

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

My parents would get at least 10 papers a week

Liam Byrne · 13-01-2010 08:43PM

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.

ashyle · 13-01-2010 08:45PM

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

ashyle · 13-01-2010 08:48PM

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

Larianne · 13-01-2010 08:48PM

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.

OctavarIan · 13-01-2010 08:52PM

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.

JimmyTwoTimes · 13-01-2010 08:56PM

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

FearDark · 13-01-2010 08:57PM

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

Agricola · 13-01-2010 08:58PM

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.

phantom_lord · 13-01-2010 09:00PM

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

CrazyRabbit · 13-01-2010 09:00PM

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.

Aidric · 13-01-2010 09:00PM

I only buy a Sunday paper these days.

Alessandra · 13-01-2010 09:04PM

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.

TheMilkyPirate · 13-01-2010 09:04PM

JimmyTwoTimes wrote: »

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

flanum · 13-01-2010 09:19PM

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!!

gerry28 · 13-01-2010 10:07PM

JimmyTwoTimes wrote: »

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

good fella jimmy

JONJO THE MISER · 13-01-2010 10:08PM

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.

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Mike 1972 · 13-01-2010 10:11PM

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.

Gummy Panda · 13-01-2010 10:13PM

I get my news from AH

i_inky · 13-01-2010 10:15PM

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")

jif · 13-01-2010 10:16PM

whats this 'paper' you talk of?

ascanbe · 13-01-2010 10:17PM

JimmyTwoTimes wrote: »

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

Say hi to Nicky Eyes for me.

pretty-in-pink · 13-01-2010 10:22PM

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

OctavarIan · 13-01-2010 10:23PM

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!

Soil Mechanic · 13-01-2010 10:24PM

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?

Biggins · 13-01-2010 10:54PM

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.

stepbar · 13-01-2010 10:56PM

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".....

stepbar · 13-01-2010 10:58PM

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.

Fukuyama · 13-01-2010 11:02PM

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!

Do people read the paper anymore?

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