A Question About Your Reading Habits

[sp1814]

This question has been raised a number of times on the News section, and I'm curious to see whether there has been any significant shift since the last time it was asked.

Do you still buy a daily newspaper?

If so...why?

The Sun and Sunday Times are now behind paywalls. Do you pay to access their online sites, or do you still want/like a 'real' newspaper in your hands?

Lastly...do you buy a newspaper for something specific (eg. the crossword etc)?

[emmie]

i love brunch, it's much more civilised than breakfast or lunch, and those in the US were gloriously over indulgent.

[Gromit]

Same as you sp. My iPad replaced buying a physical newspaper.

[jno]

my newsagent left (allegedly fleeing to Pakistan to avoid some sort of blood feud). His successor couldn't find anyone to deliver papers. So I've more or less switched to online news, chiefly the Guardian and BBC, since they're huge, free websites, but with an intermittent dose of the Mail, thanks to aog (always good to have a little laughter during the day). I sometimes use a friend's login to peek at the FT; I avoid Murdoch publications.

We get a free Guardian and Telegraph from Waitrose when we do our Saturday morning shop, though - have to spend £5 to qualify for each one (and a coffee), but that's easy enough.

[DTCwordfan]

Private Eye here - no sp, I like working with paper and ink as to anagrams etc and in scribbling lightly in the Sudoku options facing me before the number becomes apparent.

[BlueToffee]

sp1814, Brunch doesn't come between breakfast and lunch, it acts as both!

Only day of the week we have a fry up, roll on Saturday!

[Eve]

I used to buy a paper every day but then went to being addicted to Sky news on the TV. Now I just read various news sites online throughout the day (lunch break, evening laptopping etc...). I read local and national news sites and more professional news sites too.

[sp1814]

jno

That's an interesting point (and I'm not going to join in your naughty Daily Mail bating!)

30 years ago, people would buy one daily paper, but now with the Internet we have access to a broad range of political views - from the left of centre Daily Mirror, to the right of centre Daily Mail, to the completely bonkers (in all senses of the word) Daily Star.

Has this made us less or more tolerant of views that oppose our own?

I will be honest - personally, the political views of The Independent and The Guardian dovetail with my own exactly...which is why I find their opinions and comments so boring ("Yeah...alright...that's what I think, so what?")

Whereas I actually like reading The Daily Telegraph online because I normally disagree with their political take on current events.

Is that normal?

[sp1814]

Bluetooth

Oh, you are SO doing it wrong.

Brunch is the thing that you have whilst watching Loose Women.

That's a tv programme, by the way - not a lifestyle.

[DTCwordfan]

For the late arrivals, Blue Toffee, there's Lute as well! (Lunch & Tea).

[emmie]

had flapjacks, eggs, ham, sausages, waffles, french fries and a lots of coffee, that was brunch in one diner in US, i think i have left out some.

[pastafreak]

I have to admit to missing the paper mountain that is the Sunday Times. I often wished I could just purchase the sections I wanted.

[Cloverjo]

We get 2 newspapers at home. The Times and the D Telegraph. We're on holiday now so getting them on ipads. I wouldn't do this at home. I can't get the Listener crossword on the ipad and prefer the paper version for doing Sudokus.
My son, 22, never reads them but gets a lot of info online.

[sp1814]

Dtcwordfan

Sorry, but no. If we have to accept 'Lute' then we will have to accept 'Sinner' which is a combination of supper and dinner.

[boxtops]

we buy the i newspaper if we are out - if not, we go without. I like to do the crosswords on the way to work on the train. Many of the people sitting on the train (those not working) are reading on-line newspapers.

[sp1814]

Thanks to all the contributors on this thread. I have a feeling that in ten years time, the newspaper industry will look nothing like it does now. Like some others have said, I like the deconstruction of The Sunday Times in paper format, but as more and more people buy tablets (you can get a decent one for less than £50 now), I see dailies losing their grip on us.

Same with magazines.

[emmie]

in pretty much the same way it did when they moved out of fleet street, modernisation it's called, and comes whether some want it or not.

[DaisyNonna]

Have you tried wrapping broken glass in a tablet?
Or cleaning the window with one?
Or using it as insulation between the skirting board and floor board?
Or mopping where the pipe has burst?
Or as ballast for your recycling bin?
Or to cover the floor when painting?

[emmie]

i use mine to wrap up potato and vegetable peelings,

[DaisyNonna]

Oh! Forgot papier mache. Keeps the littlies happy for hours. Daughter once made a life size torso of Tutankhamen for a stage prop.

[mazie]

I buy 3 Newspapers every day...Can't get my head around doing crosswords online. I also use them to clean the windows and polish mirrors. I also still buy books or go to the Library