Sunday Papers - could you really be bothered?

Biggins · 30-07-2009 04:51PM #1

Over the last few months I've realised more and more often that the less i get these papers, how much better I'm off.
* My head and eyes isn't flashed with further weekend unless celeb junk (both in the paper and glossy "Free" mag). I don't give a fcuk about Jorden, Britney or Big Brother!
* I'm not missing out on the really important news due to the news websites and my direct ability to chose individual specific articles.
* I'm not adding to the household pile of papers to be thrown out
* ...and I'm saving a few euro's too!

...to name a few conclusions.

Can we live without the weekend junk? Actually - can we live without news papers at all when at this stage, by the time you get the paper the next day, what your reading can be seriously old news within any 24 hour news cycle?

ScumLord · 30-07-2009 04:56PM

I could probably count on one hand the amount of times I've bought a newspaper. The likes of the sun have absolutely nothing at all worth reading in them and just upset me whenever I read them at other peoples houses.

All you get off them is bad news, they try to make out the world is an awful place when it's not really, they go out of their way to find every bit of bad news going which gives a completely unbalanced view of the world.

Everyone would be much happier if they stopped reading newspapers.

WeeBushy · 30-07-2009 05:00PM

I live for the Sunday Tribune. No interest in any of those glossy magazine bits, but their News, Sport and Weekend Review supplements are what get me out of bed on a sunday morning. It's just not the same reading them on the internet than it is sitting down with a nice cup of tea and the newspaper.

sam34 · 30-07-2009 05:00PM

i only ever buy a newspaper the day after a football match when i want to read the analysis.

sometimes i'd flick through the papers at someone elses house but i always end up regretting it, it's usually mindless junk

tommyfitz · 30-07-2009 05:03PM

Sunday Independent has turned into a real rag. Gene Kerrigan is the only intelligent writer they have. The rest of them all spout the same rubbish, especially that Eoghan Harris idiot.

Cookie_Monster · 30-07-2009 05:03PM

I now rely on AH for all my news needs. much better and unbiased reporting of issues :pac:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 30-07-2009 05:06PM

Life is so much easier when you don't have sky news and can't read the tabloids... ahhh, bliss.

Web news, ftw.

TPD · 30-07-2009 05:08PM

I'd only read local papers. Anything large enough to be in a national paper will likely be on the web, and therefore in AH at some point.

Whiskey Devil · 30-07-2009 05:09PM

I still buy the Sunday Times occassionally - takes me about a week to read it

but stick to news and Vincent Browne otherwise.

WeeBushy · 30-07-2009 05:10PM

I only consider the Irish Times, and at a push the indo (though it is fast becoming toilet paper) as actual papers. The rest are just trash, dunno how anyone could subject themselves to such nonsense. The Tribune and Sunday Times (a bit meh most of the time though) are the only two sunday papers worth reading.

kmick · 30-07-2009 05:12PM

Sometimes I buy them but mostly I regret it. The Sunday Times is ok but its mostly British news. I think with the availability of the likes of irishurls.com you are reading stories at 3 or 4 pm on Wednesday which are the headline newspaper stories on Thursday. Also nothing ever happens at the weekend news wise. I mean did you ever see the RTE news on Saturday or Sunday its farcical. I mean just beacuse Ennis has a one legged emu called stumpy leading its annual lovely girls parade doesnt mean its suitable for viewing when there is nothing else to fill your 30 minute slot. Just finish up early Anne.

Wertz · 30-07-2009 05:15PM

I used to buy the sunday times for years up until about 2 years back...mainly for the culture, motoring and news review sections and for the crosswords...but they kept on pushing up the price and kept on cutting the quality of their journalism...and filled the paper with more and more ads so I just quit buying it. I browse their website the odd time of a sunday afternoon but it's not the same as reading the paper/supplement.

If you're referring to comics like NOTW or the Sunday World...I liertally wouldn't wipe my arse or light the fire with them. Anyone that buys or reads them deserves all they get.
Not being elitist here but these homegrown tabloids have an awful lot to answer for as regards their content and how it dictates the morals of the country at large and the incessant demand for celeb goss and UK soccer coverage.

emy-87 · 30-07-2009 05:18PM

The Sunday Independent is utter ****e. Barry Egan and Aengus Fanning are perverted old men, and Niamh Horan is an attention seeking idiot. Granted, Gene Kerrigan is ok.

The Sunday Tribune is much better, it actually has articles that are about something other than Bertie Ahern, Sex or Katy French. The Sindo were the ones who made her 'famous'.

Ok, Rant over. so yes, I could live without them, but I do like reading the Tribune relaxing with a cup of tea on a sunday afternoon!

rugbyman · 30-07-2009 05:21PM

am on day 14 of a holiday, currently having pleasant theraphy on boards in a web cafe. am reading Uk dailies and despair of a balanced read. Times seems the best. I really wonder who their target audience is, but they presumably know what they are doing.

Regards,
Rugbyman

adamski8 · 30-07-2009 05:25PM

eh yeah of course, what else am i going to bring into the jax

Limerick Dude · 30-07-2009 05:27PM

Like other people in this thread, the only sunday paper worth reading is the tribune, everything else is just painful to read.

goldenbrown · 30-07-2009 05:29PM

bothered I read thm online

markesmith · 30-07-2009 05:32PM

Heard the Tribune is a good read.

I only ever get the Observer - it's a great read, really good with a coffee on a Sunday afternoon, or with a pint in the evening. Top-notch sport, always a really good article in the magazine, a good digest of what's happened during the week.

The Sindo sickens me, it really does. It has no relevance to my life whatsoever. But for some reason my parents buy it every week.

Sunday World just frightens me about travellers, drug gangs and prostitutes in the apartment next door.

Mail on Sunday just frightens me about immigrants, European integration, and the hardship Katie Price goes through.

Observer ftw. Sunday Times is good too, but I usually just get the Observer.

yerayeah · 30-07-2009 06:31PM

Examiner and the Times during the week, Tribune and sindo sport on Sundays, not at all bothered for any other paper except for the local ones...

camero · 30-07-2009 06:33PM

there gone into some joke now i dont whent to no who is sagging who

Latchy · 30-07-2009 06:36PM

Reading the Tabloids and the more upmarket newspapers online is much cheaper and saves the clutter and bother of recycling paper, yes

angel01 · 30-07-2009 07:24PM

I never buy newspapers, I just read them online. Why buy them when you can read the news online for free

K4t · 30-07-2009 07:43PM

ScumLord wrote: »

The likes of the sun have absolutely nothing at all worth reading in them and just upset me whenever I read them at other peoples houses.

And whatever is worth reading in it can be read in under a minute in the shop.

mobius42 · 30-07-2009 07:43PM

I think newspapers are going to move online.

The main problem with online news sources is their credibility. Newspapers (well, some of them!) have established a reasonably good reputation over the years and so people are willing to trust news from them online. Most of the best news sites online are run by newspapers.

Keogg · 30-07-2009 07:46PM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I now rely on AH for all my news needs. much better and unbiased reporting of issues :pac:

+1 on that:cool:

simu · 30-07-2009 08:04PM

I stopped buying the Sundays ages ago and read online instead. I found the paper versions too bulky, and they really clutter up the room. Also, most of the articles are regurgitated rubbish. If I want a glossy magazine, I buy a proper one because they're far superior to the Sunday paper glossies.

So, no - I could nae be bothered.

Spiritoftheseventies · 30-07-2009 08:11PM

Yes Tribune good and Times has some good opinion pieces on Tuesday. Letters pages in Times also good for opinions and Irishman's diary throws up some interesting articles. End of the day very important to know whats going on around you.

tech77 · 30-07-2009 08:44PM

tommyfitz wrote: »

Sunday Independent has turned into a real rag. Gene Kerrigan is the only intelligent writer they have. The rest of them all spout the same rubbish, especially that Eoghan Harris idiot.

Eoghan Harris.
/shudder

irish_bob · 30-07-2009 08:46PM

tommyfitz wrote: »

Sunday Independent has turned into a real rag. Gene Kerrigan is the only intelligent writer they have. The rest of them all spout the same rubbish, especially that Eoghan Harris idiot.

a left winger , eh

irish_bob · 30-07-2009 08:53PM

markesmith wrote: »

Heard the Tribune is a good read.

I only ever get the Observer - it's a great read, really good with a coffee on a Sunday afternoon, or with a pint in the evening. Top-notch sport, always a really good article in the magazine, a good digest of what's happened during the week.

The Sindo sickens me, it really does. It has no relevance to my life whatsoever. But for some reason my parents buy it every week.

Sunday World just frightens me about travellers, drug gangs and prostitutes in the apartment next door.

Mail on Sunday just frightens me about immigrants, European integration, and the hardship Katie Price goes through.

Observer ftw. Sunday Times is good too, but I usually just get the Observer.

nice liberal young man

Stephen · 30-07-2009 08:53PM

Are you trying to imply that Eoghan Harris is not, in fact, an idiot?

Sunday Papers - could you really be bothered?

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