Newspapers

Mills

Which newspapers (if any) do people read? Which would you recommend for an informed and relatively unbiased opinion? Which would you advise steering clear of and why?

C B

My current favourites/news folder has the following online papers (who pays for newspapers these days anyway)

- The Irish Times (http//:www.ireland.com): The only Irish newspaper worth reading, editorial quality has disimproved recently but it appears to be improving again over the last month or so.

- The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com) : Needs free registration. Good relatively unbiased news from around the world, not great for analysis.

- The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com): excellent op-eds and science sections.

- The Guardian (http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk) : Top quality newspaper with liberal biase, excellent guest writers and a great sport section.


Two good weekly news magazines are:
- The Economist (http://www.economist.com) : Pay site, great global political and business coverage. Very pro free markets, socially liberal.

The American Prospect (http://www.prospect.org) : Set up by writers who felt that previously liberal mags like THE New Republic and Nation had moved too far to the left. Attempts to be a standard bearer for the left wing of the US democratic party.


Slate (http://slate.msn.com ) is always worth a read.

And for diversion you can't beat the Onion http://www.theonion.com )

Gargoyle

LOL, the Irish Times and the Guardian are most definitely not unbiased newpapers.

Lump

I used to read the Irish times when at home. Now in England I don't read to many papers, but I read the Irish times online when I get a chance.


John

C B

Originally posted by Gargoyle
LOL, the Irish Times and the Guardian are most definitely not unbiased newpapers.

Which is why I used the phrase "with liberal biase".

You should probably learn to read before you comment on newspapers.

adnans

Originally posted by C B
(who pays for newspapers these days anyway)

i do well, i prefer to sit on the bus doing something productive instead of falling asleep and looking through the window.

i used to get The Irish Times almost every morning but since i'm not that really interested in irish local news that much, i have been getting The Guardian lately. much better world coverage and some top notch writing. also, its 50p cheaper then the times

adnans

Manach

For a biased conservative opionion recommend
Daily Telegraph - http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/

Christain Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/

Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/

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Originally posted by Gargoyle
LOL, the Irish Times and the Guardian are most definitely not unbiased newpapers.

Well I agree re: guardian as it might as well rename itself
"The Labour Party Progandist" (not too much of a mouthful)

The Times is the best of the Irish and I wouldn't wipe me árse w/ any of that Independant Newspapers tripe. My old man gets all the papers in work, thats the only reason they even get in the house....because they're free!!

I like the washington post website as well. I lived in Washington DC for 3 years so that used to be the daily anyway- but their sports coverage is very good as well:)

Shinji

The Evening Standard in the evening and Metro in the mornings when I'm bored and don't have a book to read on the train

The ES is pretty good, because its biases are obvious - its main one being that it doesn't trust the Labour government. It's not pro-Conservative either mind; it's a staunchly London paper and is of the opinion that the Labour party has fúcked London over. It's not far wrong, either...

I tend to flick through all the papers during the day at some point, actually bothering to read the Independent and occasionally one of the gutter tabloids, since they're a worryingly good barometer of public opinion.

In terms of up to date news though, news.bbc.co.uk is the ONLY place worth looking...

Clintons Cat

sun,mail and guardian

for relevent articles on the web i use google.

Hobbes

http://www.thepaperboy.com/

I find absolutly no paper gives a non-biased report. The only way to get the whole story is to ask both or more sides about the same incident.

Another site...

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

The site itself it a bit erm... Mulder'ish but it does occasionally point to news stories to help you find other news that most won't print.