what newspaper?

The Bollox · 15-07-2006 07:46PM #1

what newspaper do you usually/always read? for me it's the Indo, just a habit I got from the oul fella. what about you?

Gone West · 15-07-2006 07:48PM

indo also.
and the local ones.
Occasionally the times for specific writers' articles.

Dagnir Glaurung · 15-07-2006 07:49PM

The Guardian. It's the best read for the price.

whassupp2 · 15-07-2006 07:50PM

The indo during the week but the sunday indo is pure trash.

Doomspell · 15-07-2006 07:51PM

I like The Exaiminer during the week but I do like The Sunday Times.

jrey1981 · 15-07-2006 08:08PM

Read several every day - generally the Mail, Sun and Indo, but then on a Monday I get the Guardian and the Irish Times on a Friday. Parents get two papers and brother gets one. Would probably alternate between the Indo and the Irish Times, if I was buying them.

Also read the UK Indy and Guardian every day on their websites.

Sundays I read 4 actual newspapers - again my parents get three and my brother gets one - and 3 online, which I read. Again, I would probably only get the Sindo and the Sunday Times if I was paying for them!

It's newspaper overload in our house tbh.

emeraldstar · 15-07-2006 08:15PM

Always the Independent. It's the only one I read really. I HATE tabloids with a passion. My grandmother gets the Irish Times and sometimes a local paper, so I'd read those very occasionally if I was over at her house, but in my house my dad always buys the papers and he always gets the Indo. I prefer it.

NADA · 15-07-2006 08:16PM

I would only read the Times or the Sun because they do be in my house. I just like the sun. It's really quite laughable! It's full of interesting ****! I read more books and magazines than papers though. Also should this not be in the Literature Forum?

Agamemnon · 15-07-2006 08:16PM

Examiner and Sunday Times as well.

Zapp Brannigan · 15-07-2006 08:26PM

Anything but The Sun, I've inherited the prejudice towards it.

the Shades · 15-07-2006 08:33PM

The Irish Times and due to freebies on the train, metro and herald am which are both mostly full of rubbish lol increased my trivia to throw into conversations times though

JC 2K3 · 15-07-2006 08:43PM

emeraldstar wrote:

I HATE tabloids with a passion.

Then why do you buy the Indo?

I read the Indo every Saturday cos my mom buys it but it's really pretty crap.

I get my news from various sources online.

dango · 15-07-2006 08:51PM

^^ got there before me. Darn. The Times FTW

mikemac · 15-07-2006 09:14PM

The indo. Although I usualy read it on unison.ie

I wonder why the Irish Times doesn't bring out a compact version. It's the best thing the indo ever did

The paper I can't stand is the Evening Herald. Every lunchtime as I walk through town I see the latest headline for the Herald on the newspaper stands they have around town.
What a rag!

Gone West · 15-07-2006 09:27PM

college have a subscription to the indo, makes it really handy.

Dave! · 15-07-2006 09:29PM

My parents buy the Herald every day, so I usually end up reading that and getting p*ssed off at how much of a rag it is.....

cianr · 15-07-2006 10:31PM

I find the Irish Times the best.

Plug · 15-07-2006 10:42PM

Sunday world for me.

emeraldstar · 15-07-2006 10:49PM

JC 2K3 wrote:

Then why do you buy the Indo?

would you call the Indo a tabloid?? I wouldn't. Ok then i hate "sensationalist" papers like The Sun, Mirror, etc etc.... the way they put supposedly 'sensational' words and phrases in bold or italics in the middle of articles really grates on me.
Or maybe I'm just easily annoyed!!

PS: I DON'T actually buy it, my dad does!!

nlgbbbblth · 15-07-2006 11:01PM

Monday to Saturday
Irish Times
Guardian

Sunday
Observer
Sunday Tribune
sometimes get Sunday Business Post

I think the red-top OIRISH tabloids are appalling and seriously question why people would chose to buy them.

Especially seeing as how they hype up the England soccer team's chances. Funny how a lot of those Sun / Mirror readers (who are also Premiership / SPL supporters) hate the England team with a passion - and usually cite the arrogant English media as the reason.:rolleyes:

Rhyme · 15-07-2006 11:33PM

Herald AM and the Metro as i can pick them up on the way to work for free... and they have Sudoku

ThrownAway · 16-07-2006 12:27AM

The Echo and The Examminer

Worst newspaper EVER = The Sun

It insults my intelligence to read it

Dirk Gently · 16-07-2006 12:48AM

The odd time I might check out the times and indo online but The Guardian is the only paper I actually buy regularly in the shops.

the Shades · 16-07-2006 12:50AM

emeraldstar wrote:

would you call the Indo a tabloid?? I wouldn't. Ok then i hate "sensationalist" papers like The Sun, Mirror, etc etc.... the way they put supposedly 'sensational' words and phrases in bold or italics in the middle of articles really grates on me.
Or maybe I'm just easily annoyed!!

PS: I DON'T actually buy it, my dad does!!

I can think of no other way of describing it. The shoddy journalism, minimum attention to facts, badly written english, bad editing and sniping at every other paper in the country make it an intolerable read almost adolescent in tone and approach. The only thing that seperates it from being as identifiable as the others as a tabloid is the lack of red top and randomly highlighted words throughout articles in bold.

muletide · 16-07-2006 12:56AM

I used to read the Indo but I found that they always went for the sensationalist slant in a story. They seem to want to include any bit of scandal they can and they have too many personal agendas ( yes I know every paper has an agenda) for my liking especially the Sunday edition so for me the Times is your only man good solid objective reporting and a serious interest in world affairs

muletide · 16-07-2006 12:58AM

Plug wrote:

Sunday world for me.

god help you

The Bollox · 16-07-2006 02:43AM

NADA wrote:

should this not be in the Literature Forum?

do you considir the news to be literature?

muletide · 16-07-2006 02:45AM

Marts wrote:

do you considir the news to be literature?

well there is plenty of fiction in the indo

Ruu_Old · 16-07-2006 02:47AM

Its the Indo for Ruu.

muletide · 16-07-2006 02:48AM

Ruu wrote:

Its the Indo for Ruu.

ahhh no ruu I tought you were better than that

Ruu_Old · 16-07-2006 02:54AM

muletide wrote:

ahhh no ruu I tought you were better than that

Only joking, News of the World* ftw!

*shudder

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