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I've read the Telegraph all my life because it's free (parents get it). Quite like it. Don't mind the Independent the few times I've read it. Distrust the Guardian. I am half trying to work out what to read when a stude (if, of course, I read anything).

― Bill, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on. Tell me.

― Bill, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Irish Times......bits of the Guardian. We get free copies of The Evening Herald. It's a good comedy tabloid. They had a great story back in November called "BIN LADENS GAY COHORT". Apparently this right hand man was gay due to his liking for going to the mens baths.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Grauniad / Observer as a "least worst" option. Occasionally the Indie. Sometimes my parents' copies of the Times but I certainly wouldn't trust a paper with William Rees-Mogg as a contributor. Others in my family get the Sun which I actually don't mind: it's nowhere near as xeno/homophobic as it was and, unlike the Daily Mail, its journalists don't pretend to be cleverer than they are.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been reading the Guardian for years - I find it offers much the best writing quality and the most entertainment, and I probably distrust it slightly less than the others. The Independent On Sunday on Sunday. The Indy is my second choice generally. I don't care for the right-wing leaning of the Telegraph or, worse, the Times, and the others are too dumb for my tastes.

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I subscribe to the International Herald Tribune + NRC Handelsblad (heavy-weight Dutch evening paper) and the Guardian Weekly. I regularly dip into various British and US papers (NYT/Washington Post) on the net. The coverage of international news in the British papers is lamentable.

― stevo, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Dallas Morning News, supposedly the NY Times of the southwest.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Age at morning coffee and The Weekend Australian on the (duh) weekend

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Guardian on Fri and Sat - for the 'arts' reviews mainly, to be honest - and the Sunday Times for the supplements.
I'll also skim through The Sun that a house mate buys and leaves lying around, throughout the week. I can never bring myself to read Richard Littlejohn's column though, I can do without his poisonous shit.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I read the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (only on Sun) and the Benton County Daily Record (only on Wed). The local stories are usually crap and the people who write to the editor are idiots. It's quite sad.

― Lindsey B, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Guardian every day. Off stands here in Japan, the Asahi International Herald Tribune and the Japan Times, maybe twice a week. Sometimes the New York Times. More often Liberation, whose cultural coverage is best.

Online, the BBC News site, the Associated Press site, CNN occasionally, and the Salon news feeds. And, for a laugh, the truly scary paranoia of Reb file, which is all about chemtrails and how no plane ever hit the Pentagon.

― Momus, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Long term Guardian reader. As mentioned by Robin C above, it's the "least worst" option, ho' I canremember when it was actually the best option. I will probably ditch the Observer& go w/out a sunday paper soon

― NoRMaN PHaY, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I read an alarming amount of papers at work (one of the only things the filters don't catch), but I don't know if that counts really. Mostly the New York Times, the two Detroit papers and assorted international ones when I get time (mostly the Guardian).

I did feel a bit sad when I recognized one of N.'s obscure references to a John Nash article Guardian. That's what has started me thinking I maybe read too much of this stuff.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

While I subscribe to the LA Times, I really don't actively read it or any other newspaper, translated to online source or not, anymore. To be honest, it would take up too much time to properly review everything and keep tabs on fun places like this, though somehow I'm still soaking up the basics of what's going on in the world as well as a fair amount of analysis. Strange, really.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like Ned I don't read anything regularly, yet I somehow still manage to find out about the bigger happenings in the world. When I do want more information on something, it's the Washington Post Online for me.

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the guardian i suppose. least worst being the operative phrase i guess. the arts coverage is poor though

― gareth, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Another Guardian reader, skim The Mirror, The Sun and the Indy occassionally if they're lying around at work.

― Anna, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I read De Morgen on paper. I read the Guardian online. I fear that if one day hell comes descending on earth I will miss it cause I never read anything but the culture section.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The only paper paper that I buy is the sat guardian for obvious Guide- related reasons. Metro and (occassional) Eve Standard from the library rack in the tube. I also read Guardian website. Private Eye count as a paper? I've recently taken to grabbing the Mail whenever I see it lying around, then I scour it for stuff to upset me. Peter Hitchens does the job usually.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Guardian due probably to it being the paper that my parents have always bought. And The Observer on Sundays mainly because of Nigel Slater and Vic Marks writing about cricket. The lifestyle bits make me flippin' angry though.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What's all this about trusting the media? Come on, you're the most wildly cynical bunch of bastards I know - I can't quite believe you'd open yourselves up to the press, leaving yourself vulnerable to their mendacious charms.

I like the Guardian and read it every day. I buy the Observer on Sundays, but when it doesn't have one of its excellent monthly supplements the Sunday Times probably shades it in terms of entertainment.

I also get Private Eye on subscription, but that's not a newspaper.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't mendacious a wonderful sounding word though?

― Anna, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I met a tramp on O'Connell street once and he was screaming "tu es mendax" at everyone.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

I love that rebfile.com site! yes it's funny, but there is a lot of serious stuff on it as well. too cool. thanks Nick!

― Toni Conte, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I have come to appreciate the Guardian a lot more since I stopped working for it. As Jonnie says, the lifestyle bits are often maddening (but then so are every paper's). The Observer is still is as rubbish as ever, except the monthly magazines (I don't read them much but I can see they are well done).

My mum gets the Telegraph on Saturdays and I enjoy reading that when I go home. The Arts & Books section is good. Though never as good when I'm not in that sitting room. My dad is very politicised and well-informed but only ever buys a paper for my mum. He picks them up on trains though. He's left wing but has never been a Guardian reader, or a regular reader of any paper. I've always respected that.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The Observer Food Monthly is pretty good. I still mainly read the Guardian, but I've just about given up on the Saturday one. Bloody hell, the magazine's bad enough but the new review bit (WORSE than the old section!) - is it supposed to bore you to death or make you feel inadequate to death, or both at once?

― Ellie (Ellie), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh I love that section. I've thought they should rip off the LRB like that for years. Yes, it makes me feel uneducated sometimes, but its a good counterbalance to all the lifestyle tat and crappy columns.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I just think you should have to choose (ie pay) to deal with that sort of thing over coffee on a Saturday morning, not have it thrust upon you willy nilly. However, I was surprised to like the David Lodge piece this w/end which I thought was unusually interestingly wrong.

― Ellie (Ellie), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

certainly DL generally sticks with merely boringly wrong

i bought it but didn't read it, except the paul foot piece on tony benn, which wz disappointing

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I started that piece with interest (but caution, as I suspected DL was a bit rub), 'cause I actually knew about the subject and most of the books he mentioned. But I found myself drifting and didn't get anything out of it at all. I ate a sandwich instead.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't read the paper much, but I do search out the Friday Guide section of the Guardian if possible, mainly for the vicious single reviews.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Pah - it just seems to be Andrew Mueller all the time these days and he's rubbish.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the phenomenology and narrative stuff that I'm interested in, not so much the problem of consciousness per se I don't think, although to be honest it's not a literature I know terribly well except the populist end of it.

― Ellie (Ellie), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

This is good stuff. That's exactly what I think about the disappearance of Soaphead.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

1) I subscribe to (and skim) the Washington Post.
2) I pick up the Washington City Paper, mostly for the club listings. Anyone who has read that paper for more than a year, after glancing at the headline, can predict what the lead article and the letters to the editor responding to that article will say.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

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