Do you read newspapers?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

I know I certainly get 95% of all my news and info from online sources or TV, but now and then I'll skim through a paper (Guardian - liberal opinions and Charlie Brooker, Independant, Morning Star once in a while). Is there a paper anyone here reads regularly? Or irregularly?

[Bronco]

Read the Independent most days, the best of the national papers I'd say

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I'm not 45 and I have a television and the Internet, so no.

[Bronco]

I'm not 45 and I have a television and the Internet, so no.

Last I checked you were in fact still allowed to read newspapers even if you're under 45 and have a tv/internet

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Last I checked you were in fact still allowed to read newspapers even if you're under 45 and have a tv/internet

lol, no I'll go to jail.

[bcbm]

yeah, i'll read the local daily paper and new york times if i can get a hold of them (usually in the break room at work) and i generally read the free weekly papers around town.

[Railyon]

local ass paper usually full of shit and lies to read for breakfast, that's it

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Occasionally. I do like Charlie Brooker, as far as satire goes he's a funny guy and probably the only reason I'd ever pick up a Guardian.

[Obs]

I read several newspapers, which people are pretty charitable in letting me borrow. Gotta spend my time with something now that my poverty's put me under house arrest.

[Goblin]

Norwegian newspapers fucking suck! all they write about is celebrities and shit! I still read them though...

[Ele'ill]

Yes, I'll read the local papers/city papers and anything else laying around.

[Bostana]

Yes every know and then. But only to make me look intelligent :lol:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I read my local paper sometimes, only because they threw it on my driveway though.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I have a subscription to the Industrial Worker (IWW paper). Otherwise, I will glance at the local-paper in the breakroom if it's laying around.

[NewLeft]

I read the free newspaper found in the subway, Metro and 24 Hours.

[Railyon]

I have a subscription to the Industrial Worker (IWW paper).

Oh yeah reminds me, I got a sub for Direkte Aktion, the FAU paper. Bimonthly though.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Oh yeah reminds me, I got a sub for Direkte Aktion, the FAU paper. Bimonthly though.
I heard Direkte Aktion is good! IWW's paper is almost monthly (10 issues a year).
I try to hear from FAU-IWA, but most of their websites, FB updates, and general internet stuff is in German. Much solidarity though :cool:

[Deicide]

Yes, everyday. But I don't buy them.

[Bandito]

As a journalist, I tell you - read and buy the newspaper.

Raising profit for the big company owners is not a motivation I'm after for sure, but restrictions for journalists are closely tied to the amount of money the company operates under. If it's more money, companies can, for example, break off sponsoring deals if articles are targeting that particular advertiser for being corrupt, and not feel it that much in the end. But if the papers are poor, they will thy to hang on to what little advertisers they have, because they cannot rely on sales to achieve profit.

More money, more freedom of the press.

Harsh, but reality.

[Rusty Shackleford]

i wake up in the morning bathe shave and brush my teeth and groom, go to the kitchen where my wife in a floral pattern dress is preparing eggs for my all american football playing son and church choir daughter. She hands me a cup o joe and the newspaper, i have a chat and peruse the sports and business section. kiss my wife goodbye and head off to work just after she hands my kids their lunches and they catch the bus.
















i come home later that night to find my wife is popping bennies, my daugther smokes marijuana, and my son was accused of continued and unwanted sexual advances by a member of the cheer squad, i drown my nights in domestic beer cigarettes and the andy griffith show.

[Left Leanings]

I used to take a newspaper everyday. I went through a phase of reading The Guardian, then The Times, and then moved on to the Daily Telegraph. Yeah, the latter is a centre-right paper I know, but I like the fact it's retained the broadsheet format.

If I'm taking the bus, I pick up one of the free city newspapers that's available on them, Monday-Friday.

If I buy a paper now (which is rare), it's either The Guardian or The Daily Telegraph (but only on a Saturday), and The Observer on a Sunday.

I visit my parents once a week, and catch up on the town's local rag (published Monday-Friday), and the free weekly newspaper that comes through their letterbox.

Other than that, I get news online :)

[Sentinel]

Besides the obvious - the party newspaper, which I also write articles for occasionally - I read lots of newspapers whenever I have access to them. I especially enjoy reading them when eating breakfast/lunch/dinner, or drinking coffee, and when riding a train or bus.

I don't subscribe to or regularly buy any major ones though. The free ones in this city are decent enough and these days I also have a smartphone anyway, so it's faster and cheaper for me to read the ones that cost money online instead. Generally I will only buy a paper if I know there is some article that particularly interests me.

One of the main reasons to why I don't subscribe to a daily newspaper, though, is that I'm away working at sea half of the time. There would be a mountain of old papers waiting for me every time I get home from work.

If I ever change jobs I might consider it.