Do you still buy a newspaper?

[HOGEPH]

One of my New Year's resolutions was to give up buying any newspaper. Easily done and I can't say I've missed my daily ration of biased, inaccurate hysterical drivel with an emphasis on celebrity goings on.

For the same reasons I think I shall shortly be giving up television as well.

Anybody else abandoned the fourth estate?

[thinfourth2]

We get the local evening paper delivered everyday and we would truely miss it if we didn't get it.



The fires a complete bugger to start without it

[deviant]

Never buy newspapers and tend to just flick through the local free one to see if there are any money off vouchers before it goes in the bin.

[escargot]

Occasionally I'll buy a paper during the week. I religiously buy the Sunday Times though.

[thinfourth2]

Oh and not watched TV news for 2 years at least

So how has your view of the world changed since you stopped reading that we are all going to die horrible a week next Tuesday?

I know that since i ignored the mass media my outlook on the world has improved

[V8mate]

escargot said:

Occasionally I'll buy a paper during the week. I religiously buy the Sunday Times though.

Free commuter papers in and out of London each day, but always buy papers on a Sunday and often on a Saturday too. Mainly because the weekend papers are so much more than just 'news' and are great to spend a lazy morning with.

[mitzy]

Get a Metro paper during the week thats free

Sometimes the times on sunday.

[HOGEPH]

The newspapers need to return to what they started out as.

1. Reporting just the news factually.

2. Wrapping chips.

3. Arse wipes.

[sneijder]

Get the Mail free, read it for laughs.

I still read 'Straight to the point' in the letters section after they ripped it to bits on the Big Breakfast years ago. Read the footy on the back and it's straight in the (recycling) bin.

I prefer todays news on the interwebs.

[Jasandjules]

Get the paper at the weekend only now. It is used as base lining for the litter tray... Apt, I'd say.

[ipitythefool]

Try and get my daily fix of City AM, but that's about it.

[hunt_the_fox]

I get the Times delivered daily but have a strange relationship with it in that I don't use it for news, I immediately turn to the back page and read the entire sport section then try to do both crosswords then bin the main section keeping the Times 2 bit for the evening telly. So I don't read the news bit at all really, also don't watch the TV news- too depressing.

[Los Palmas 7]

I take the Telegraph on a semi-regular basis, but only for the crossword.

Often get the Telegraph on Saturday for the crossword(s) and the motoring section (Honest John and James May).

Bought the Sunday Telegraph yesterday for something to do, but it's still sitting on the side in the kitchen, unread.

It does seem a waste of money buying something of which I use about 2%.

[PD9]

I read the sport in the supermarket every lunchtime. Yes I know I look like a suited up hobo.

[Los Palmas 7]

PD9 said:

I read the sport in the supermarket every lunchtime. Yes I know I look like a suited up hobo.

Let me get this straight; you go into the supermarket, pick up a paper, read it, then put it back on the shelf without buying it? Saw a couple of lads do this in my local corner shop the other day and it really annoyed me.

They are retail establishments, not friggin' lending libraries.

[spidermanUK]

Los Palmas 7 said:

PD9 said:

I read the sport in the supermarket every lunchtime. Yes I know I look like a suited up hobo.

Let me get this straight; you go into the supermarket, pick up a paper, read it, then put it back on the shelf without buying it? Saw a couple of lads do this in my local corner shop the other day and it really annoyed me.

They are retail establishments, not friggin' lending libraries.

Quite right! Why do you think it's OK to stand in the middle of a busy supermarket reading a paper that you have no intention of purchasing?





Any decent sized supermarket will have customer bogs, so pick up the "rag of choice" and head straight for the karzi, at least you can have a "sit down" whilst reading the paper!

[10 Pence Short]

spidermanUK said:

Any decent sized supermarket will have customer bogs, so pick up the "rag of choice" and head straight for the karzi, at least you can have a "sit down" whilst reading the paper!

Quite why you'd want to spend your leisure time in a supermarket, let alone the toilets of one, is beyond me?

[Famous Graham]

Will occassionally pick up a copy of The Scotsman to read in the pub, but it's infrequent and irregular. Most of the time it's "tram this", "tram that" anyway

[Soft Top]

Not daily but I do like a Sunday paper.

[NoelWatson]

Subscribe to FT. Have cancelled as it is too depressing. Will resubscribe in a few years (assuming still working in city) when global economy shows signs of recovery