Turtles Head Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 Is it just me who finds newpapers boring and full of time wasting shit? The Sun, Mirror, People, Star, Sport are all absolute bollocks. The Independent, Mail and Times are all boring. The Express is the only paper i can tolerate and that is even at a push. Most people i know buy one or two per day. I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facecloth Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 Is it just me who finds newpapers boring and full of time wasting shit? The Sun, Mirror, People, Star, Sport are all absolute bollocks. The Independent, Mail and Times are all boring. The Express is the only paper i can tolerate and that is even at a push. Most people i know buy one or two per day. I don't get it. For me it's just that they offer nothing. Because of the instant news era we now live in they, nothing they print is news, so they have to make stuff up to make it interesting, and to sell copies. The online aspects of certain papers are ok, such as the Guardian are pretty decent and I read them those, but I never actually buy a newspaper anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 but the Leicester Mercury is up to date and interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 Some people enjoy reading a newspaper and some people don't. It's not compulsory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zingari Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 Just be grateful that newspapers are ,or seem to be boring . Remember the old Chinese curse, “may you live in exciting/interesting times “ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 The Express? FFS! These day papers are not so much for an instant news fix, more for comment and opinion depending where you lie across the political spectrum and what your interests are. Personally, I find that The Times has the best sense of humour and does a good line in satire. The Express? FFS! These day papers are not so much for an instant news fix, more for comment and opinion depending where you lie across the political spectrum and what your interests are. Personally, I find that The Times has the best sense of humour and does a good line in satire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowlattsFox Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 It all depends on your expectations. I read a paper, a variety of different ones, just to kill some time, read some stories, see whats happening (whether its true or not I don't really care) and generally just to have a read. Think people get worked up over newspapers way too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 There's really no point in newspapers anymore, other than for entertainment if you're on the move. You might as well just go straight to Reuters if you want news, papers are just taking stories from either there or PA wire copy anyway, re-distributing it with their own bias and reading-level-appropriate language. Cut out the bullshit and go straight to the "source." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilo Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 I'd love to see The Sun's recipe. Download from Reuters Extract adjectives Insert right wing bias Insert picture of tits Weave in ropey puns Insert right wing bias Take out words with more than four syllables Serve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zingari Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 There's really no point in newspapers anymore, other than for entertainment if you're on the move. You might as well just go straight to Reuters if you want news, papers are just taking stories from either there or PA wire copy anyway, re-distributing it with their own bias and reading-level-appropriate language. Cut out the bullshit and go straight to the "source." I learnt that much from reading “flat earth news” too , but I was going to say they just took their stories from the press association releases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 I learnt that much from reading “flat earth news” too , but I was going to say they just took their stories from the "press association" releases That's a nugget I swiped from my uni days, to be fair, although I am a fan of Nick Davies and do recommend Flat Earth News as a starting point to anyone. I had to buy stacks of papers and magazines at uni and we were often encouraged to trawl through for, essentially, identical articles. It was a point they were fond of making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MattP Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 I read the Times. Excellent paper, it's a quid a day which is very good value, excellent columists and the only problem you have is you dont always get the time to read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted 25 October 2011 Share Posted 25 October 2011 I read the I (a lot cheaper than the other papers I'd read: Independent & Guardian) every morning over breakfast so I disagree they are boring. Edit: The Times - part of Murdochs media empire - no thanks. Never read the observer but as far as I've been told it's a decent paper - something of a half-way between guardian & mail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 Love a good newspaper mainly for the sport and form guide. Mainly read it online now days tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike the Metal Ed Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 I read i because it's the only decent read that I can afford. If a selection of free papers is available I gravitate towards the Guardian/Observer (I await your slings and arrows) or the Independent. I used to have to read the Express when I worked at East Leicester Medical Practice and it was terrible, at least the Daily Mail has some comedy value and decent sport. For a sense of balance, I can handle the Telegraph, the Times is too boring to me and I've read The Mirror in a chip shop once, and it was just as bad as the Express. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottthefox Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 I'd love to see The Sun's recipe. Download from Reuters Extract adjectives Insert right wing bias Insert picture of tits Weave in ropey puns Insert right wing bias Take out words with more than four syllables Serve Not so much a right wing bias, just plain political incorrectness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MattP Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 Not so much a right wing bias, just plain political incorrectness. I was going to say the same thing but couldn't be arsed. The Sun isn't on any wing, it just talks bollocks. For something so right wing they did a damn good job of hammering the Tories over the last 15 years. The left have to believe all the thickos are on the right though, they need that to sustain the higher than thou attitude that came after a brief flirt with homosexuality whilst undertaking some pointless social studies degree at university. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 I used to read the Indy, had some cracking editorials and some decent articles in it. I delved into the I when it came out and was getting a lot of good press and I have to say I was massively disappointed. It's hugely lightweight and insubstantial, not really what I wanted out of it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini Logic Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 'i' has to be the only paper worth reading/buying - 20p or 30p on a Saturday, first two pages summarize the entire paper if you haven't got an hour to go through it, there aren't pages and inserts full of nonsense views from people you don't care about and you still get your 3 sudokus and a couple of word ladders. I understand that Newspapers are out of date as soon as they're printed (and particularly out of date 20 hours later when I read them!), but for me it's much more enjoyable and healthier to sit down for an hour each night and read the newspaper, than to sit for an hour on the Reuters website. While we're on the subject of crap media outlets, can I rant about all of our 24hr News channels - they've become such a joke in the recent years that I find myself watchin Al Jazeera or Russia Today. Were they always this crap? Did I just not notice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21st Century Fox Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 I'd love to see The Sun's recipe. Download from Reuters Extract adjectives Insert right wing bias Insert picture of tits Weave in ropey puns Insert right wing bias Take out words with more than four syllables Call Papa Murdoch to check the story targets his latest enemy Serve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilo Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 I was going to say the same thing but couldn't be arsed. The Sun isn't on any wing, it just talks bollocks. For something so right wing they did a damn good job of hammering the Tories over the last 15 years. The left have to believe all the thickos are on the right though, they need that to sustain the higher than thou attitude that came after a brief flirt with homosexuality whilst undertaking some pointless social studies degree at university. Not at all. Some of the thickest and most politically ignorant people I've ever met have been Mirror readers who vote Labour because their dad does, or base their allegiances purely on the fact they hate the Tories because 'they're posh.' No brief flirtations with homosexuality or pointless social studies degree for me either. The Sun is undeniably right-wing, always has been. It backed a Labour government that was so far removed from traditional Labour traits it was almost Tory, and dropped it like a ton of hot bricks once Blair fecked off and Brown started moving the party left again. Look at their views on immigration, asylum and Europe if you still don't think it's a right-wing publication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AoWW Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 Indy or Observer for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wherethefoxhat? Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 Is it just me who finds newpapers boring and full of time wasting shit? The Sun, Mirror, People, Star, Sport are all absolute bollocks. The Independent, Mail and Times are all boring. The Express is the only paper i can tolerate and that is even at a push. Most people i know buy one or two per day. I don't get it. Preachers of doom ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 If you don't like what you see in the nationals fight back. Community Journalism is on the rise. Next week sees the launch of Media Week which will be encouraginging ordanary people across Leicestershire to get involved. If you are a part of a community group or want to form one come along to one of the events at the old Central Library or Phoenix Square. It is being run by Citizens Eye. I have recently set up a new blog. I am hoping to make it purely news and social issues. I will be putting RSS feed from groups and people from various areas. You are free to comment. It may be contraversal at times but no more than on here. I will try and put some posts of my own from any link that I find. I just need the traffic to show my journalist tutor I am doing something plus it could be fun. We Are One is my other blog. Put one or two bits on. Won't please everyone but I want response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxyPV Posted 26 October 2011 Share Posted 26 October 2011 I was going to say the same thing but couldn't be arsed. The Sun isn't on any wing, it just talks bollocks. For something so right wing they did a damn good job of hammering the Tories over the last 15 years. The left have to believe all the thickos are on the right though, they need that to sustain the higher than thou attitude that came after a brief flirt with homosexuality whilst undertaking some pointless social studies degree at university. You do talk some bollox. Guardian and the Observer - usually online as I don't get much of a chance to read it from cover to cover as I'd like to. To be fair though I'll read anything if it's in front of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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