Any decent newspapers?

[yellowbentines]

BBC news website for me, news without adverts.

[Charlie Foxtrot]

I surprised myself with the amount of content I read in The Guardian. Politically I ignore it, but for other news and content it is much better than The Times and Telegraph. I found with the latter two I was only reading a few paragraphs of an article and deciding it was rubbish. The only newspaper I buy now is Motorsport News.

[Blib]

Sun
Times
Guardian
Daily Mail
Daily Express
Daily Telegraph
Independent
Daily Star
NOTW

[Willie Dee]

Blib said:

Sun
Times
Guardian
Daily Mail
Daily Express
Daily Telegraph
Independent
Daily Star
NOTW

He said decent newspapers... not newspapers or publications which pretend to be newspapers.

[Steffan]

I rather like the i paper.

Readable, balanced, concise, not celebrity based.

I suspect the web and alternative communications (Blogs, Twitter, Facebook etc)
will steadily grow and daily newspapers steadily fall.

Twenty years or so newspapers will be halved or less.

That's progress.

[carmarthenf1]

The Daily Telegraph helped expose this idiot!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[ATh]

yellowbentines said:

BBC news website for me, news without adverts.

Biased trivial rubbish, I find.

[Tadite]

I'm in the states but I think The Economist is the single best news product on the planet. A lucky thing as I've been the middle of nearly uninhabited wastelands and been able to buy one.

[BoRED S2upid]

I get all my news from Pistonheads. When I buy a newspaper its usualy 'I' as I don't have all day to read it or in the case of some of the big Sunday papers all week!

[wl606]

This is what the Daily Telegraph now considers to be a major news story "Emile Heskey's fiancée Chantelle Tagoe sparks fire alert when Christmas dinner practice goes wrong" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou... Oh how the once mighty have fallen.

Edited by wl606 on Wednesday 16th November 19:45

[GTIR]

The Telegraph.

Yesterday £1
Today £1.20.



That's a big increase. (you can work the % yourself)

[12gauge]

wl606 said:

This is what the Daily Telegraph now considers to be a major news story "Emile Heskey's fiancée Chantelle Tagoe sparks fire alert when Christmas dinner practice goes wrong" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou... Oh how the once mighty have fallen.

Edited by wl606 on Wednesday 16th November 19:45

And it still got 42 comments. So someone must be interested.

Fox news is a load of codswollop. However its also AFAIK the only commercially profitable 24 hour news channel out there. Say what you like about it, it gets people watching.

People generally prefer to read stuff that shocks them rather than the more boring but more accurate account of things. Its why the Mail is the best selling paper.

If you actually want decent analysis, id suggest finding some good blogs and frequenting them. Things like this I find good for economic analysis.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
http://www.zerohedge.com/
http://market-ticker.org/
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/

Even Pistonheads forum is probably more informative about cars than most the motoring sections of papers.

Funny that, that unpaid bloggers and forum members produce far more insight than so called journalists on their fatcat salaries (particularly the BBC fat cats).

[dbdb]

wl606 said:

This is what the Daily Telegraph now considers to be a major news story "Emile Heskey's fiancée Chantelle Tagoe sparks fire alert when Christmas dinner practice goes wrong" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou... Oh how the once mighty have fallen.

Edited by wl606 on Wednesday 16th November 19:45

"How the once mighty have fallen", indeed. I find the Telegraph to be a poor newspaper now. It isn't just the trivial bks like this and the Telegraph's new obsession with everything Royal - their coverage of important issues is superficial, selective and incredibly biased.

[JensenA]

GTIR said:

The Telegraph.

Yesterday £1
Today £1.20.



That's a big increase. (you can work the % yourself)

Try the 'i' - only 20p! a good newspaper.

[AJS-]

I wouldn't bother with a newspaper. I use PH as a sort of filter, any story that's important will get through that way, the rest of it is just noise. Some days nothing important happens.

Read Cicero, ideally in Latin.

[Xtype]

I enjoy reading the gaurdian.

[shirt]

^^get him!

used to read the times daily. despite the murdoch issue i found it mostly objective and better written than the others. telegraph can be a bit stiff and the guardian trying too hard to be trendy.

these days i browse the gulf news and the khaleej times, but very much like denzel washington in training day, it's purely for entertainment value [journalism is stretching it].

still miss the sunday times, although most visitors are cottoning on to bring one out for me.

[Randy Winkman]

dbdb said:

wl606 said:

This is what the Daily Telegraph now considers to be a major news story "Emile Heskey's fiancée Chantelle Tagoe sparks fire alert when Christmas dinner practice goes wrong" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou... Oh how the once mighty have fallen.

Edited by wl606 on Wednesday 16th November 19:45

"How the once mighty have fallen", indeed. I find the Telegraph to be a poor newspaper now. It isn't just the trivial bks like this and the Telegraph's new obsession with everything Royal - their coverage of important issues is superficial, selective and incredibly biased.

It's about the same level as the Mail nowadays.

[anonymous-user]

shirt said:

....... used to read the times daily. despite the murdoch issue i found it mostly objective and better written than the others. telegraph can be a bit stiff and the guardian trying too hard to be trendy.
.......

+1, The Times for me too.

[shirt]

good point about the economist, best one for actual news.