Did you buy a newspaper today?

abouttobebanned

Just out of curiosity.

I can't remember the last time I bought one...so feel quite hypcritical when I say that it would be a tragedy if Print Journalism died out.

But is it getting close to dying?

Dotrel

Printed newspaper is dead but I reckon it'll still have a life in the form of subscriptions on kindle/tablets.

maygitchell

PS BEFORE YOU VOTE:


The Sun is not a newspaper, it is a tit rag cum soaker-upper

Gummy Panda

Nope.

Easy access to news online

J_E

Isn't it Magic Land Dizzy? Such a classic series.

meoklmrk91

No, but I usually do.

Used to buy one everyday. Then they all just got really ****e. There are now two types of papers to buy in this country.

Type 1: The what is Jordan doing today paper.

Type 2: The stuffy boring, so far up its own hole paper that it can't figure out if it's a newspaper or a Joycian novel.

Now there should be a type three, for normal people who want to know whats going on in the world,has insightful intelligent columnists and still has something thats good for the craic. Nothing at all like it in this country though. So I go and get my news online.

sdanseo

No "I occasionally buy a newspaper option". That's me. Poll edit perhaps?

squod

On a Monday? They're full of gay soccer talk and the like. No thanks.

Agricola

No, maybe buy 2 or 3 a week.

phoenix833

No, but I usually do.

I'd probably only buy one on a Sunday. Rarely though. The Indo or the Sunday Times, getting good bang for your buck with those ones.

4leto

No
I use to religiously buy an Indo or Times depending on the headline
But I stopped and opted for the ostrich approach about been informed about our current crisis.

But newsprint and magazines are dying a rapid death, look at all the high profile failures in America. I heard recently even the mighty New York Times is in trouble.

maygitchell

phoenix833 wrote: »

I'd probably only buy one on a Sunday. Rarely though. The Indo or the Sunday Times, getting good bang for your buck with those ones.

More value than poor alison got out of her apartment thats for sure :rolleyes:

efb

Only buy the Irish Times on Sat

Kevin Duffy

Buy one? When they're giving out Metros for nothing??

That's right, you heard, I'm in town!

storker

I did buy one today (Indo) but I usually don't. Unfortunately, today it was pretty much a content-free zone. I do real the IT and Indo online though.

Stork

starbelgrade

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Type 2: The stuffy boring, so far up its own hole paper that it can't figure out if it's a newspaper or a Joycian novel.

That sounds like the storyline of David Norris' life.

Princess Peach

No, but I usually do.

I sell newspapers for a living.

Buy Buy Buy! (but only from my shop)

I don't buy them cause I get them for free. And also I don't read them. Usually just read the cute animal page in the Sun and the problem page of the Star.

maygitchell

Princess Peach wrote: »

I sell newspapers for a living.

Buy Buy Buy! (but only from my shop)

I don't buy them cause I get them for free. And also I don't read them. Usually just read the cute animal page in the Sun and the problem page of the Star.

You enjoy page 3 too?

pragmatic1

No, never buy them

Buy one everyday because there is zero craic in work.

abouttobebanned

Cydoniac wrote: »

Isn't it Magic Land Dizzy? Such a classic series.

I'm very embarrassed about that error. I was torn between magicland and treasure island dizzy.

Mike 1972

Dunno how anyone in Ireland has the money (or time) to buy newspapers everyday.

On the rare occasaions I find myself in a shop before 1pm during the week Id usually take a notion to pick up "I" (bitesize version of the UK's independent"). Would never buy a Sunday paper though. Theyre overpriced, full of rubbish and a bit sad.

Firetrap

Magic Island Dizzy

No but I'll usually buy a paper or two during the week. All depends what's going on really. If a person was to buy a paper every day, it really adds up money-wise.

Dotrel

maygitchell wrote: »

More value than poor alison got out of her apartment thats for sure :rolleyes:

I'm sure she laments it every day as she jogs round Central Park and daddy pays off the mortgage back in Dublin.

connundrum

I got an Irish Times for free with a '9 Item Breakfast' this morning.

I was a sneaky bastard and actually had 12 items, so it was especially free.

In general I might buy the Sunday Business Post every few weeks. And maybe a Heddald once or twice a week.

Immaculate Pasta

This will probably sound dead pretentious but sod it.

No I don't buy or read a newspaper but I do subscribe to The Economist each week and read that. It gives me a much more rounded news coverage from around the world and I also find it much more interesting than celebrity obsessed newspapers. I feel much more informed reading The Economist every week than reading the paper everyday. :cool:

Mike 1972

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

I do subscribe to The Economist each week and read that. It gives me a much more rounded news coverage

LOL

Irish Guitarist

I think I've bought two newspapers in my entire life. One had a free Prince CD and the other had pictures of Carol Vorderman in it.

Latchy

Online reading where it's at ...

WindSock

No but I was close to tears in the shop when I saw that poor wee girl who died in the fire, on the front page
I was more upset by the fact that I don't usually stir easily.

Son Of A Vidic

No, but I usually do.

I rarely buy a newspaper, but why restrict yourself to one news source when you can utilise many online.

Hercule Poirot

No, but I usually do.

I haven't bought a newspaper in over a year, they're all full of the same ****e. When David Beckham's new hair cut appeared on the front of a newspaper - THAT was when I stopped buying them. Adulterated gossip mongerers the lot of them!!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Magic Island Dizzy

I'm starting to feel like the man who time forgot when reading my newspaper on the train each morning. Everyone else is busy with their ipad/phone thingamajigs.