What Newspaper Do You Read?

According to Jim Hacker, you can tell what type of person someone is from the paper they read. Certainly there's a stereotyped Guardian Reader and Daily Mail Reader. But what paper or papers do you read the most?

 

I hardly read newspapers nowadays. I just don't have time anymore, because of work. If there's a copy of the Metro on the bus, I'll have a flick through that.

I remember in year 9 at school doing a term of lessons in English about media, though. We had to analyse and compare the styles of broadsheet and tabloids, and I read the Daily Telegraph. I became fascinated with the wealth of information in the broadsheets, and bought a few copies of the Tepegraph since then. Being young and not very political, I didn't realise that the Telegraph had a Conservative slant...I wonder if I'd be able to see that nowadays? I might buy a copy of the Guardian and leave it in the tea bar at work, see if anybody reads that over the crap they usually leave in there like The Sun

When I get a better job (and overcome my crippling addiction to the internet ) I'm gonna start reading newspapers again.

 

I read the Guardian and the Independent daily as well as my weekly local papers and Private Eye (does that count as a paper?)

Off Topic: Another Yorkshire person! Huzzah!

 

I think you can tell what kind of person someone wants to be

Sometimes buy the Observer on a Sunday, have Guardian online bookmarked

 

daily mirror only coz i get me chips wrapped up in it .

 

I'm a Guardian reader and, unfortunately, probably a bit of a stereotype. The guilty middle classes and all that. To make up for it I also read a selection of socialist papers, and sometimes write for the Weekly Worker....

 

Well we have a dispute in my household! I read the Gardian and John reads the Inde'! so it reall depends who buys the paper that day! Its usually John so I don't generally read it but there is a lot to be said about the Sudoku puzzles in the Independent -probly the best there is!

 

I read The Sun as I hate all the depressing stuff that hits me in other newspaper and i like the crossword

 

In the common room at Uni they get all the dailys in, and if someone's taken the Guardian, the Independent's next on my list. A fine paper, bit unconventional, but still some good reporting....

 

I find the Sun plays up on big moral panic issues a lot, and so is rather depressing, as well as quite misleading. The Mirror's a better tabloid, much less reactionary, and still quite light.

Welcome to the UK Forum by the way

 

I'm really interested in language and linguistics. Therefore I read all sorts of newspapers from The Times and The Observer to the Sun and even local newspapers too.

I like to analyse how similar stories are written etc and some of the puns from the tabloids are classic!

 

When (if) I get a paper I'll get the Independent or whatever socialist paper they're handing out on the High street. I'll only read the Telegraph or the Daily Mail (or the Sun/Mirror) if someone leaves them out at work and I can't be arsed to buy a better paper. The Times is OK, but not great.

 

Are you a socialist then Raven? Don't worry, I won't burn you if you are, I am :sunglasse

 

Guardian or Independent, and Observer on Sunday...good reads.

 

I have a paper round so i read lots of front page newspapers, but my favourite is the sun. It is quite relaxed, isn't depressing, got football news in, and quite often talk about global warming etc issues

 

i read the sun when i get the time & the news of the world on a sunday which is basicly the same paper. i read it because i find it funny, i dont take anything in it seriously at all & i love the problem page.

 

The Daily Star, for the breasts and all the important gossip, like what Posh Spice is wearing this week. We get most of the newspapers at work so at lunch i occasionally flick through the Indy, Telegraph, Mail, and Times. My parents still read the Express, poor fools..!

 

We put forward a motion to our college executive the other day to stop supplying the Express on the grounds that it was homophobic and racist (with particular reference to their Torchwood article and the Kilroy Silk one). Someone proposed an ammendment saying that to do so might curtail freedom of speech, so we should stop supplying it on the grounds that it was shit and no one reads it. The ammendment was carried and we no longer get the express in college. Woohoo!

 

Nice..! Normally i'd say the Mail was was worse, but at least that occasionally has some interesting content in it, even if it is hysterical. I assume you tried to get rid of the Sun for the same racist, sexist and homophobic reasons?

What did they say about Torchwood? "Why is everyone in it bisexual?". That is a bit unnecessary, i reckon. But it has an adult timeslot, so it can do what it likes i suppose.

 

My parents often get the Mail on Sunday