Which newspapers or online do you read and why?

justforlaugh

me

independent.ie / independent.uk and http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/

I cant stand the guardian, far too left wing and the daily fail is far too right wing for my liking

stimpson

The Onion. I find it surprisingly accurate.

I mainly read German newspapers, I find the British ones far too British for my liking

darragh16

The Journal ... purely for the ridiculous and outlandishly left/right wing comments. Everything from the disaffected voter to the conspiracy theorist. they've all bases covered!

Augmerson

I don't read any. If I do, it's with the knowledge that most papers are owned by very rich individuals who control media empires and have their own agendas to look out for.

sbsquarepants

I used to read independent.ie (I say used to, I still do but not as much) but it's gone to pot lately, same with breaking news.ie. I get the bulk of my news from either here or reddit now!

canadianwoman

I read the Galway Advertiser. I get it once a week in my email and love reading it. I also read the Daily Mail, Aberdeen's Evening Express, The Irish Times, Independent.ie, the Hamilton Spectator, the Hamilton Community News (a once a week paper for my area), CBC.ca and The Toronto Star.

I like my news.

Conmaicne Mara

None, apart from farming publications. I find they're all full of spin & agendas, inc. the farming ones. Reporting factual news seems to have been thrown out with the baby & bath water.

Richard Hillman

Everybody reads the daily mail website. Some admit it, some do it in secret.

Hardonraging

Farmers Journal ... them lambs never get old !!

Mark Twain

Irishtimes and Independent for Irish news.

Daily Mail website for the lols and the mad genius/lunacy of it all.

Guardian for sport and tech. Daily Telegraph for my dose of moderate conservatism.

jimgoose

Ye Olde Indo, and sometime the Telegraph from over the road.

Mark Twain wrote: »

...Daily Mail website for the lols and the mad genius/lunacy of it all...

Let's see what we've got today... ah, yes:

"Naked easyJet passenger is tasered by police after challenging captain to a fight on tarmac at Manchester airport (then gets a slap from his girlfriend)"

Everything under control there, then!

Stepping Stone

The Independent, to see what spin they put on stories and for the letters. The Irish Times, letters, their spin on stories and stuff like consumer stuff. Irish Examiner, less spin than the other two. Letters. Love the letters. Daily Mail, mainly for the comments, Journal for the comments. Love the crazed commentators. Lots never actually bother to read the article.

For real news I tend to read a variety of broadsheets and make my mind up from there.

canadianwoman

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Everybody reads the daily mail website. Some admit it, some do it in secret.

How can you not read it. It's such a train wreck that you can't help yourself from looking.


Yes....I'm hooked.

Gongoozler

Don't read any except some the journal things. Though they're not going to last long with me, getting tired of their attempts to be what they think is Internet cool. Oh and their incessant retweeting of the daily whatsit. Christ if I wanted to read 12 ways you know you're irish etc I'd sign up to the ****tin thing myself.
I suppose they're still finding their place but either be a news group or be a tabloid, you can't be both.

crockholm

BigJugs.xxx

You'd never guess what some of those housewives get up to

Matt_Trakker

Gongoozler wrote: »

Don't read any except some the journal things. Though they're not going to last long with me, getting tired of their attempts to be what they think is Internet cool. Oh and their incessant retweeting of the daily whatsit. Christ if I wanted to read 12 ways you know you're irish etc I'd sign up to the ****tin thing myself.
I suppose they're still finding their place but either be a news group or be a tabloid, you can't be both.

I've the same grumble, I think they news stories are grand, they're short and to the point, but those

Gongoozler wrote: »

12 ways you know you're irish etc

are complete and utter nonsense.
Oh and that insufferable bore Lisa Mc-something, that chick seriously needs to get herself laid or some new vibrator batteries.
Or learn to meditate, something to relax herself anyway.

wp_rathead

The Irish Times and the Guardian..


...cause I am better than you

The Backwards Man

I like aggregaters like Google News or Newswhip.

super_furry

The Journal. They basically steal all their news from the papers/RTE, and amalgamate it so you only have to go to one site.

wilkie2006

ToughOne wrote: »

Daily Mail, for the pictures of hot girls

And don't forget: for this sort of shit too...

NAKED airline passenger is tasered by police after challenging plane captain to a fight on the tarmac (earning him a slap from his girlfriend)

Fucking hell...

Witnesses said man, 52, stripped and yelled 'come on then' to captain
His disgruntled companion squared up to him and smacked him round face
The passenger is also said to have relieved himself against terminal building

speedboatchase

darragh16 wrote: »

The Journal ... purely for the ridiculous and outlandishly left/right wing comments. Everything from the disaffected voter to the conspiracy theorist. they've all bases covered!

So many Shinners in the comments section. It's basically a social club for them at this point.

speedboatchase

super_furry wrote: »

The Journal. They basically steal all their news from the papers/RTE, and amalgamate it so you only have to go to one site.

That's how online news works, and has worked for the past 10 years, to be honest. You get what you pay for and when you don't pay, you don't get the same standard of original reporting, investigative reports and insightful columnists. I find The Journal to be extremely precious whenever any newspapers report (and credit) the six or so original stories they break every year.

paintitblack

The journal for entertainment and the guardian for news. The guardian also has a great music section

Celly Smunt

The guardian during the week (maybe the observer if i'm on a train or plane,nice size),times on the weekend and maybe the business post on sunday for the technology section.

pharmaton

Independent, it's feckin free everywhere I go for lunch/coffee I find a copy and then I got addicted to the crosswords so I buy it if I'm given the option.

Lad Of Banter

rte.ie
thejournal.ie
news.bbc.co.uk
news.bbc.co.uk/sport
cnn.com
football365.com
cracked.com
boards.ie

twitter, facebook, etc... :pac:

maxwell smart

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Everybody reads the daily mail website. Some admit it, some do it in secret.

I like the bit about India. That is one f**ked up sub continent!

rainbow kirby

Physical? Evening Standard, because it's free and there's feck all else to do on the tube

Online? Guardian, Irish Times, New York Times

B.A._Baracus

justforlaugh wrote: »

me

independent.ie / independent.uk and http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/

I cant stand the guardian, far too left wing and the daily fail is far too right wing for my liking

College assignment, right?

Amirani

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Online? Guardian, Irish Times, New York Times

Ditto.

Oink

Newsfeeds: Irish Times, RTE, BBC
Paper (sometimes): Irish Times

I am unable to read red tops as I skip anything to do with:
football
celebs
random ****e, TV related ****e etc
stupid games
anything with a ridiculously large font
any article with a huge pic and only 3 lines of text

So before you know it I've reached the last page without reading an article.

skirt_hunter

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Physical? Evening Standard, because it's free and there's feck all else to do on the tube

Online? Guardian, Irish Times, New York Times

the holy trinity of middle class liberal reading

speedboatchase

The Times
The Sun
The Guardian
The Journal
Newswhip
Giant Bomb
Aint It Cool News
The AV Club
Gameological Society
Eurogamer
EDGE
Games TM
Game Informer
Empire
Gulf Times
Doha News
BBC Football
Guardian Football
Football Italia
Football Espana
ESPN

I read too much actually :-/

My name is URL

I don't buy any newspaper, and don't really have a preference for online versions either. I'll read an article if it interests me and is brought to my attention through Twitter or Boards or whatever, but I'd rarely browse any news site casually.

Peregrine

Online: Irish Times RTE and The Guardian for world news.

I rarely buy printed newspapers, if I do, it would be the Irish Times.

KyussBishop

Gave up on newspapers a long time ago; if there is an author I find who I like, I stick their RSS feed into RSSOwl to keep up.

It's a lot more informative, to just read from the authors you know are good quality, than to expose yourself to all the crap out there - eventually the crap starts rubbing off onto you otherwise, no matter how smart you are at picking it out.

A few I follow:
Slashdot - Read it more often for the funny/informative comments, than the actual articles
Naked Capitalism - I try (fail lately) to keep up with this, for (gradually) learning about everything that's wrong with economics (which is almost everything...) and how it affects politics, as well as for getting alternative narrative on events
Glenn Greenwald - Been following his writing for years; probably one of the most principled/critically-thinking/intelligent journalists in any news outlet; Edward Snowden deciding to blow the whistle to Glenn, was not a random choice

Degringola

Read both tabloids and broadsheets. I find that the tabloids are less politically correct and will say it straight out where the broadsheets can skirt around an issue/story.

What horrifies me is the fact that so much of the news is now supplied by the agencies and you can read the same reports word for word across multiple papers. All singing from the same hymn sheet. You end up then with only one bias, particularly when it's to do with conflicts.
It's as of the word goes out from somewhere on high: these are the good guys and those are the bad guys and then that line is pushed everywhere. Gleichschaltung the Germans call it.

WoollyRedHat

The Guardian, it's the only mainstream newspaper that isn't afraid to challenge the perceived order.

Oink

Degringola wrote: »

What horrifies me is the fact that so much of the news is now supplied by the agencies and you can read the same reports word for word across multiple papers. All singing from the same hymn sheet. You end up then with only one bias, particularly when it's to do with conflicts.
It's as of the word goes out from somewhere on high: these are the good guys and those are the bad guys and then that line is pushed everywhere. Gleichschaltung the Germans call it.

Totally agree with that. The Murdochs of this world are ensuring a lot of newspapers are pretty much castrated.

Rubberchikken

love the guardian, read online and always buy the saturday edition.
like the telegraph at the weekends for travel reading.
keep up with news on journal and here of course:)

who the fug

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

The Guardian, it's the only mainstream newspaper that isn't afraid to challenge the perceived order.

So long as it has a left wing slant

Moi is a Torygraph reader online, refuse to pay for it as it has gone to cat, but it did get the Mp expenses story


Dream paper

Guardian with some Sub Editors from the SUN

WoollyRedHat

The right wing ones don't actually do real journalism for the main. They stick to the govermental narrative and don't question or investigate it.

Just look at most of todays newspapers (english at least), they all have run a press release from MI5. That's not journalism.. that's behaving as a mouthpiece... I find it funny when they go on about press freedoms and government intervention, when most of the time they tell the governments POV.

April O Neill

The Guardian, the Daily Mail (:o, no point denying it though!), the Telegraph, the New York Times.

No Irish ones. They're all dire. Yes, including the Irish Times. At least the Daily Mail is good for da lulz.

SimonQuinlank

Guardian and Washington Post online.

Usually read the Evening Herald if someone brings it home in the evening,if only to laugh at just how dire it is!

Idiots posting links on Facebook to the Journal and it's crap articles have put me off ever even looking at their site.

I usually buy the 'pay what you like' digital edition of The Blizzard for football too.Great read.

OneArt

Der Spiegel and WAZ Zeitung... Because I live in Germany.

I would read Irish newspapers online too, but the awful writing, basic schoolchild errors and piss-poor editing makes me want to cry.

crockholm

OneArt wrote: »

Der Spiegel and WAZ Zeitung... Because I live in Germany.

I would read Irish newspapers online too, but the awful writing, basic schoolchild errors and piss-poor editing makes me want to cry.

Be more of a "Titanic"man myself;)

Femme_Fatale

Irish Examiner and Irish Times.

British papers for features/opinion more than news - Times/Indie/Guardian.

To be fair to the "The Guardian is toooo liberal derp" heads, it can be a bit too right-on at times.

Daily Mail website articles the odd time yeh, blocking out the panel to the right that features young girls' appearances being dissected.

skirt_hunter wrote: »

the holy trinity of middle class liberal reading

Oh noez, "middle-class"! "Liberal"!

markomuscle

manchester evening news, to see what crime has been happening in the area.

Mark Twain

I'll have a read of the RTE website. Maybe the Drudge Report.

Current affairs doesn't interest me all that much. Same sh1t, different day. I find history a much more satisfying concept.

Legs.Eleven

The Guardian would be my main paper. Yes, I do agree that it's irritatingly right-on as other posters have said and I like to read those articles just for an auld cringe but most of the stuff is good journalism and lots of frivolous stuff too to while away the hours. I'd read the British Independent too the odd time.

The Irish Times is grand for the news from home but the more time I'm away from home, the less interest I have in the news from there.


I'd click on article from The Journal that are posted on Facebook. Seems to be some decent journalists on there and some good commentary pieces. Avoid the comments page because I don't want to get angry.

I'd also read the Spanish paper El Pais. Basically the lefty paper here in Spain. The rest of them hark back to the Franco era and are harrowing reads.