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Shaun
28-11-2003, 14:12
I was reading with interest that Nthellworld.co.uk has made the national new paper(s), well it made the Guardian, but lets not allow that to take anything from it, its an historic day in the history of our new site.

As I was reading Towny's thread Here (http://forum.nthellworld.co.uk/showthread.php?p=88445#post88445post88445) and I wondered which papers our members read, so here's a
thread to find out.

Please be honest, there's no one judging you, its just yet another interesting and fun diversion from real work :LOL:

I read the Times

edit Well it was going to be a poll but it didn't work, :dunce: so you'll just have to post in the thread!!

Xaccers
28-11-2003, 14:14
The Heliograph (ok, just Hagar, but it has words!)

gazzae
28-11-2003, 14:16
The only paper I read is The Sunday Life.

During the week I get my news from skynews.com or
news.bbc.co.uk

downquark1
28-11-2003, 14:17
Guardian

Jerrek
28-11-2003, 14:17
Toronto Star

Stuart
28-11-2003, 14:18
The Evening Standard (local paper in London) because I like it's news coverage. The Mirror occasionally and the Sun occaionally (because it is funny).

Ben
28-11-2003, 14:20
This is a vote :confused: Looks like a normal thread to me ;)

Anyway I read "The Sun" but if you mean a real newspaper because come on... you can't call the Sun a newspaper really can you, Then I would have to say I don't :angel: Apart from our local Comet :p

Shaun
28-11-2003, 14:20
This is a vote :confused: Looks like a normal thread to me ;)

Anyway I read "The Sun" but if you mean a real newspaper because come on... you can't can the Sun a newspaper really can you, Then I would have to say I don't :angel: Apart from our local Comet :p

Yer, but I messed it up and took too long to put in the names of the papers so you'll all just have to say it out loud :dunce:

Toronto Star

Is that like the Morning Star?? (commi paper!):LOL:

Bifta
28-11-2003, 14:27
I read the Derry Journal, Belfast Telegraph and Irish Times.

homealone
28-11-2003, 14:34
Grimsby Evening Telegraph :)

philip.j.fry
28-11-2003, 14:37
news.google.co.uk, because it gathers news from a wide number of sources I (hopefully) get a more balanced view from it.

Xaccers
28-11-2003, 14:43
Grimsby Evening Telegraph :)


Oooo I forgot about that one!

Ramrod
28-11-2003, 14:47
The Times

zoombini
28-11-2003, 15:33
I read the nthellworld.co.uk news rather than be part of chopping down more trees to waste paper.

Chris
28-11-2003, 16:21
All of them! :cry:

Actually if I get to the stack of papers first in the morning I take the Independent and the Telegraph, then the Guardian 3rd if need be.

We share the task of compiling a daily clippings file on our industry sector.

I avoid the FT and the Wall St Journal like the plague, but if I had to make a 4th or 5th choice for reading it would be the Mail, then the Express.

If I actually buy a paper for myself (which isn't very often), it would be the Telegraph Mon-Sat, or the Sunday Times. Normally when I want to find out what's on the news I listen to BBC R4 (Today on the way in to work, and PM on the way home) or go to BBC News OnLine (http://news.bbc.co.uk).

dilli-theclaw
28-11-2003, 16:33
I don't read a physical paper.....

I am subscribed to a number of channels on my pocket pc via avant go. Which I read every day.

These are :-

BBC News
CNET News
Guardian
Guardian unlimited Film
HP Mobile
ITN
New York Times
The Times
Vnunet
ZDNet UK to go

Dave Stones
28-11-2003, 16:52
i read The Sun. I don't care what people say about it, the fact is if you look at the reader figures then they must be doing something right. and I'm sure 3 million or however many readers read it aren't the pondlife that other newspapers and high-brow people claim they are...

and on a sunday i read News Of The World.

and when it comes round i read Bugged (the university's stupid right wing paper that hates anything and everything to do with things that aren't socialist). that gets thrown away once we have read the front cover basically...

so yes, i am a sun reader. i'm glad i don't go to leeds university, apaprently the sun is banned from their guild building :erm:

Ramrod
28-11-2003, 16:59
Normally when I want to find out what's on the news I listen to BBC R4 (Today on the way in to work, and PM on the way home) or go to BBC News OnLine (http://news.bbc.co.uk/).Yes, they're good but I don't get the time to listen now.

Chris
28-11-2003, 17:18
Yes, they're good but I don't get the time to listen now.
Getting to listen to R4 is possibly the only genuine advantage to commuting by car!

aliferste
28-11-2003, 17:20
Guardian.

Chris
28-11-2003, 17:24
Guardian.
I think it would have been fun to try to guess what papers people read based on opinions they've expressed in the forum. I couldv'e guessed you're a Guardian fan, Ali, and DQ as well - and I think I'd have guessed Times or Telegraph for Ramrod.

Dave Stones
28-11-2003, 17:38
I think it would have been fun to try to guess what papers people read based on opinions they've expressed in the forum. I couldv'e guessed you're a Guardian fan, Ali, and DQ as well - and I think I'd have guessed Times or Telegraph for Ramrod.

oo a psychic... what about me? :D

orangebird
28-11-2003, 17:44
I only buy papers at weekends. The Mail on Saturday, and the Sunday Times (on sunday, obviously)..during the week, I look at bbc & sky news online.

:)

Chris
28-11-2003, 17:49
oo a psychic... what about me? :D
Difficult ... you're rarely outspoken in the social or political threads, and they're the big giveaway. Seeing as you've only just gone to Uni it's quite likely at this stage that if you buy a paper, it's the same one your parents get. What that is, I couldn't guess! :)

Dave Stones
28-11-2003, 18:14
Difficult ... you're rarely outspoken in the social or political threads, and they're the big giveaway. Seeing as you've only just gone to Uni it's quite likely at this stage that if you buy a paper, it's the same one your parents get. What that is, I couldn't guess! :)

i'm rarely outspoken because i'm sensible enough to keep quiet. eg at college when it was voting time i was verbally targeted as "going to get what's coming to me" becuase of my political views crossing those of a socialist mob...

and yes the sun is what my parents read, we have all been brought up in a anti-guardian atmosphere (plus, papers with pictures and easy on the eye text are so much more easy to read than the essays they put in the independent, guardian etc).

ive never understood why people are so against the sun, when it has the largest reader circulation...

i cant actually find a link but i know it exists somewhere...

Shaun
28-11-2003, 18:22
I think it would have been fun to try to guess what papers people read based on opinions they've expressed in the forum. I couldv'e guessed you're a Guardian fan, Ali, and DQ as well - and I think I'd have guessed Times or Telegraph for Ramrod.

Me Me, what about me?

aliferste
28-11-2003, 18:40
(plus, papers with pictures and easy on the eye text are so much more easy to read than the essays they put in the independent, guardian etc).




A bit like the Beano or Dandy!!


The tabloids like The Sun and Daily Record are written so that an 8 year old can read them. Often the stories are senationalised and one sided and if you dont like reading about celebrities then your pretty much out on a limb!!

Atomic22
28-11-2003, 19:05
i buy the voice of the people commonly known as "The Sun"
fastest to print news
best for sport
etc etc

Mark W
28-11-2003, 19:08
am not a newspaper person - i stick to bbc news online and ananova :)

Ramrod
28-11-2003, 19:17
Getting to listen to R4 is possibly the only genuine advantage to commuting by car!Thats what I found....

Ramrod
28-11-2003, 19:19
I think I'd have guessed Times or Telegraph for Ramrod.Does it show?:D

cjmillsnun
28-11-2003, 19:25
The Independent & The Guardian, also when on a train The Times ('cos Mr Branson gives them away)

cjmillsnun
28-11-2003, 19:31
i'm rarely outspoken because i'm sensible enough to keep quiet. eg at college when it was voting time i was verbally targeted as "going to get what's coming to me" becuase of my political views crossing those of a socialist mob...

and yes the sun is what my parents read, we have all been brought up in a anti-guardian atmosphere (plus, papers with pictures and easy on the eye text are so much more easy to read than the essays they put in the independent, guardian etc).

ive never understood why people are so against the sun, when it has the largest reader circulation...

i cant actually find a link but i know it exists somewhere...

As a Rover driver, (and a Midlands resident) and a Liverpool fan, I find a lot of The Sun's headlines heartless to say the least, and as such I will NOT buy it.

Tricky
28-11-2003, 20:05
Don't have time although I do buy the Sun on a saturday so the misses has a TV mag for the week (doesn't she know what the sky remote is for? - PS don't tell her I said that!)

Always get the express if I'm flying around the UK - usually because you can read it on a small plane!

Bex
28-11-2003, 20:34
<snippity snip>so yes, i am a sun reader. i'm glad i don't go to leeds university, apaprently the sun is banned from their guild building :erm:

yeah leeds (my now ex uni) have banned the sun, but there is a newsagent across the road from the uni for those that do want to buy the sun ;)

personally, i read the times if i read any, but i don't read newspapers generally.....i normally just read whatever is lying around at home or at work....
i do check on yahoo for news articles..and ive started watching the news :eek:

Maggy
28-11-2003, 20:42
I don't buy newspapers-I read everyone elses.This way I do not add to the depletion of the worlds resources. ;)

Incog. :ninja:

Paul
28-11-2003, 21:07
none, I just watch the news on tv most evenings and catch the radio news on weekday mornings.

Tiptoes
28-11-2003, 21:20
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
www.annanova.com
BBC

Chris
29-11-2003, 14:36
As a Rover driver, (and a Midlands resident) and a Liverpool fan, I find a lot of The Sun's headlines heartless to say the least, and as such I will NOT buy it.

I believe there are still a large number of people in Liverpool that won't buy the Sun because of the story they ran after Hillsborough, alleging fans were stealing from corpses. :(

Stuart W
29-11-2003, 15:00
I only get papers on a sunday, but I go for the News of the World and The Guardian.

It's nice to have gutter press and broadsheet to compare storys.

After all, all our news is very heavily vetted, so we only get snippits of what is actually happening, but with enough snippits, one can hopefully get a semi-biast picture.
Thing is, I spend more time on-line than I do reading the papers, so I get my news from around the world I guess.

Ramrod
29-11-2003, 15:12
with enough snippits, one can hopefully get a semi-biast picture.
I think we get more than a semi-biased picture. ('specialy if you read the Guardian!:rolleyes: ):D

Shaun
29-11-2003, 15:23
I think we get more than a semi-biased picture. ('specialy if you read the Guardian!:rolleyes: ):D

:LOL:

Defiant
29-11-2003, 15:28
I buy The Sun on the Saturday too for the TV guide. I can't be bothered using the remote to see whats on. Its allot easier just looking through a mag

Lord Nikon
29-11-2003, 18:34
sources of news for me -

The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk)
MSN's Homepage (http://www.msn.co.uk) IF there is anything interesting on it
CNN (http://www.cnn.com)

Chris
29-11-2003, 18:46
I buy The Sun on the Saturday too for the TV guide. I can't be bothered using the remote to see whats on. Its allot easier just looking through a mag

Magazines are less likely to demand a re-boot before they tell you anything either. :D

iadom
30-11-2003, 09:48
Daily Telegraph for me although it is damned expensive in Spain and it is printed over there, 3.50 euro's for the Saturday edition.

Landed back late last night to find out that .com closed within hours of me leaving the country, and even worse, Graham has won Mornington Cresent. I feel that someone is conspiring against me.:cry: ;)

fireman328
30-11-2003, 11:25
Daily Telegraph (on line edition) mainly for news and crossword.
Wouldn't touch The Times as Murdoch owns it and I despise anything that he owns, which is why there never will be a SKY box in my house. I would rather use the basic 5 channels or FREEVIEW than put any money in his pocket.

Shaun
30-11-2003, 15:33
Daily Telegraph (on line edition) mainly for news and crossword.
Wouldn't touch The Times as Murdoch owns it and I despise anything that he owns, which is why there never will be a SKY box in my house. I would rather use the basic 5 channels or FREEVIEW than put any money in his pocket.


:notopic:
But doesn't his few channels on there help fund the whole Freeview thing?

Chris
30-11-2003, 18:54
:notopic:
But doesn't his few channels on there help fund the whole Freeview thing?

Sad but true, Freeview is part-owned by Sky and carries a number of Sky channels. However, you're making only a minimal contribution to Murdoch's pocket this way as there is no subscription and if you don't watch his channels, they can't number you among their audience figures when they're trying to sell advertising space.

sir_drinks_alot
10-12-2004, 03:41
whan you get up what paper do you like to read.over Breakfast
do you like the heavys like the times and Guardian or are you more.
a light reader who likes papers like the sun

kronas
10-12-2004, 03:52
i dont read newspapers.

quadplay
10-12-2004, 03:53
I rarely read a paper, but I do occasionally get the Indepedent...

Shaun
10-12-2004, 05:22
I'm sure there was a thread about this a while ago

Edit - http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=4659&highlight=newspaper

punky
10-12-2004, 06:27
I'll read anything that happens to be in the coffee shop, or in the office when I go in. Sun, Mirror, Times, Guardian, Mail, Metro.

Every paper has some form of bias or agenda to push, I just compensate for that depending on the paper.

Chimaera
10-12-2004, 08:08
The Mail, at the moment for my sins - but only because my Mum is collecting the Royal Doulton tokens and she wants a double set! :D

Matthew
10-12-2004, 08:36
Considering I deliver and sell hundredes of morning papers a week I do not read any. I deliver them in the morning and then I work in the shop in the evening so I have to get them ready for collection in the early morning. It's all good fun.

sir_drinks_alot
10-12-2004, 08:56
I'm sure there was a thread about this a while ago

Edit - http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=4659&highlight=newspaper

oh sorry did not see that can a mod please merge the two threads

Edited to say
have just pm mod to ask tham to merge the two threads

Ramrod
10-12-2004, 09:39
We get The Times delivered. :)

Nidge
10-12-2004, 09:49
Daily sport for me I need to know where Elvis Preasley is on a day to day basis, last week he was in a chip shop in Ripon North Yorkshire.

Nemesis
10-12-2004, 09:54
oh sorry did not see that can a mod please merge the two threads


Threads Merged

bopdude
10-12-2004, 10:06
If and when I buy a paper it's the Express, full range of sports coverage and not just football :rolleyes: and the crossword, don't forget the crossword :tu:

Chris
10-12-2004, 10:37
Extra poll options added. :)

bopdude
10-12-2004, 10:47
Extra poll options added. :)MMM thanks Chris, is the poll accurate, i mean, is it really a dead heat between 4 papers ?? all on 25 % and the other 6 having 0 % each

Chris
10-12-2004, 10:53
MMM thanks Chris, is the poll accurate, i mean, is it really a dead heat between 4 papers ?? all on 25 % and the other 6 having 0 % each
Well, it's accurate only insofar as so far, four people have voted, which means the papers they voted for have 25% of the votes each. This is why politicians like percentages, they cover a multitude of sins.

(OT, but for example: The Welsh Assembly was approved of by a little over 50% of the people who voted in the referendum ... but only 20% of the electorate bothered to vote. That means the Assembly was actively supported at the ballot box by about 12% of the Welsh electorate. Democracy ... don't you just love it? :D )

Don't forget also that this is two merged threads and there has only been a poll for a day or so. When more people have voted, the poll should more accurately reflect the paper-reading habits of the forum. :)

Nugget
10-12-2004, 10:56
If I buy a paper in the week thesew days, I'll get The Mirror (but I normally only bother on a Saturday now).

On Sunday, I always get the Observer (cracking sports section :tu: )

bopdude
10-12-2004, 10:59
Well, it's accurate only insofar as so far, four people have voted, which means the papers they voted for have 25% of the votes each. This is why politicians like percentages, they cover a multitude of sins.

:)D'oh didn't notice the numbers there, did they just arrive via a mod edit ;)

Chris
10-12-2004, 11:02
D'oh didn't notice the numbers there, did they just arrive via a mod edit ;)
/ahem .... errr, no, Bop, the number of voters is always at the bottom of the poll ... ;)

bopdude
10-12-2004, 11:08
/ahem .... errr, no, Bop, the number of voters is always at the bottom of the poll ... ;)
Shows how many polls i've taken part in, ;) :p:

Halcyon
10-12-2004, 11:30
I normally get the Leicester Mercury on Thursdays as it has a guide to the week, and then read the Free Metro newspaper on the bus.

SMHarman
10-12-2004, 11:53
Sad but true, Freeview is part-owned by Sky and carries a number of Sky channels. However, you're making only a minimal contribution to Murdoch's pocket this way as there is no subscription and if you don't watch his channels, they can't number you among their audience figures when they're trying to sell advertising space.
:notopic: I read today that nearly 7% of the licence fee also ends up in his pocket (not the BBCs).

Graham
10-12-2004, 19:43
What's this "morning" business...? :confused:

Oh, yeah, it's the time I go to bed! :D

Paul
10-12-2004, 23:26
Added (and voted for) None. :)

AndrewJ
10-12-2004, 23:29
Me I read Microsoft magazines and other pc related ones.

ALso I read the local estates Daily paper.

Shaun
11-12-2004, 00:10
Well, it's accurate only insofar as so far, four people have voted, which means the papers they voted for have 25% of the votes each. This is why politicians like percentages, they cover a multitude of sins.

(OT, but for example: The Welsh Assembly was approved of by a little over 50% of the people who voted in the referendum ... but only 20% of the electorate bothered to vote. That means the Assembly was actively supported at the ballot box by about 12% of the Welsh electorate. Democracy ... don't you just love it? :D )

Don't forget also that this is two merged threads and there has only been a poll for a day or so. When more people have voted, the poll should more accurately reflect the paper-reading habits of the forum. :)


So were the original results wiped? I'm sure the original poll showed who voted for what! :erm:

homealone
11-12-2004, 00:44
Added (and voted for) None. :)

thankyou - I read the evening paper, which has todays news, not yesterdays ;)

carlingman
11-12-2004, 03:52
This is nicked from an old British sitcom, Yes Prime Minister:

The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country.
The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
The Sun is read by people who don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

Which tells you as much as you need to know about the British press.

:D

Seti
11-12-2004, 05:27
I read The Independent and very occasionally The Guardian. Hmmmm Maybe I should be running the country ! :LOL:


I also read South Wales Echo for local news

SeTi^

greencreeper
11-12-2004, 10:41
I rarely buy newspapers. If I'm on the bus I'll pick up the Metro - poor reading but it gives me the headlines. Sometimes I'll buy the Yorkshire Evening Post if a headline grabs me or I want to know something, such as why, yesterday, the traffic coming in Leeds from City Square was bumper-to-bumper. Though half the time there's no explanation :rolleyes: I also get the Computing newspaper delivered free each week and I read that cover-to-cover. Oh and sometimes I get The Times - it's my favourite newspaper.

Occasionaly I buy a computer magazine or the Economist (for business news). I also have the Gay Times delivered, which I know some frown upon as a naff magazine but I like the writing. It's light.

If the mods added CCN, Google News, BBC News it might make interesting polling. Are the newspapers losing ground to cyber news?

sir_drinks_alot
11-12-2004, 12:06
some times i read the Internationals (on the web) stuff like.

the washington post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/)

or
the new york times (http://www.nytimes.com/)

and if i don't wanna read any thing to heavy

daily record (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/)

i know you use to be able to buy usa today (http://www.usatoday.com/) in the shops but i just can't find it anymore

Tezcatlipoca
11-12-2004, 18:18
The Guardian, & sometimes the IHT.

For other news sources, I also like to browse the BBC news website, & watch C4 News.

punky
11-12-2004, 18:51
IHT?

Tricky
11-12-2004, 18:59
Tend to just use the BBC.CO.UK

Old joke - 8 out of 10 teachers read the Guardian, the others pay for it.

Tezcatlipoca
11-12-2004, 19:07
IHT?

International Herald Tribune. It used to be a joint effort between the Washington Post & the New York Times, but is now solely owned by the NYT.

http://www.iht.com/

I tend to get it when I go abroad, but I do buy it here when the newsagents near my work actually has it in.