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)?

[Zacs-Master]

Current one looks like bog standard Ariel. Surely the G wouldn't use 'Times' anything?

[ichkeria]

I think website-based news (at least from reputable sources) is doomed. The future will be digital editions and (hopefully still) good old paper

[Zacs-Master]

Do you include the BBC in that ich?

[Gromit]

The Guardian does not use Times New Roman. Arial is a crap Microsoft knock-off of Helvetica, they don't use that either.

[ChillDoubt]

To answer your question sp I've not bought a paper for some 20 years, I tend to use the BBC site along with BBC News Channel/Sky News for keeping abreast of matters.

[Zacs-Master]

Gromit, I believe Ariel was designed in 1982 for Monotype Typography.

[sp1814]

Chilldoubt

I use the BBC's site, but the problem I have with their main news stories, although they seem well balanced...they just don't seem as 'in depth' as newspaper sites. Sometimes I get to the end of the story and feel as if I've only read about 60% of what's happened, if you see what I mean.

[sandyRoe]

I still buy 2 papers during the week, Belfast Telegraph and Mirror. No particular reason, more habit than anything else.

[sp1814]

Gromit

I'm looking at the 'beta' version of the Guardian website, and you may very we'll be right - personally. I can't really tell the difference between Helvetica and Times New Roman. They look alike to me.

I'm a Calibri man myself. Modern, simple and elegant.

[ludwig]

I don't buy a daily paper. I buy the Sunday Times and look at the BBC news website and TV news. I wouldn't pay to look at an online newspaper.

[Nibble]

On-line news from BBC, RT & Al Jazeera nice to try to keep a level playing field in my options, but then again maybe I'll keep on laughing at all of them, and giggling at the foibles of the world.

[Zacs-Master]

Looks like a slightly vertically stretched Guardian Egyptian to me
https://commercialtype.com/typefaces/guardian

[shaneystar2]

We get the I every day .It's got all the info I need and a good crossword.Good paper for 20p and 30p on Saturdays .
Buy a weekly local rag to see who's been hatched ,matched and dispatched and what's going on in the neighbourhood .
We used to buy the Telegraph and Mr S. the FT but too expensive these days .
I look at the BBC news on line and read bits of the the Guardian .Print off crosswords from the Guardian site .I would never pay to read a paper on line .

[jno]

can't really tell the difference between Helvetica and Times New Roman.

Eh? er... one's got serifs and one hasn't?

[Canary42]

I buy the i most days - a cheap crossword or two (plus a codeword and several sudoku) if nothing else, but I usually find it a good read as well.

[mikey4444]

I still buy the Guardian 6 days a week and the Observer and Times on Sunday. I have gotten into the habit of getting the I paper on a Saturday, for the crossword.

I can't imagine life without the Guardian. I have been reading it since I was in my late teens. I know that you can read it on line but its not the same somehow. Its difficult to get out in the sticks or on large council estates, but I still persevere.

[Old_Geezer]

Not bought a regular paper for years. Can get news on the TV and websites. Those that charge fail in their aim to get to me. Were I to renew getting a regular paper I think it'd be for more than the news, it'd have to be for interesting articles and suchlike.

[joeluke]

The Sun........for it's quality in-depth news coverage

Joking aside, for the football and horse racing pages

For those who don't buy a daily paper but access newspaper sites online - what happens when your internet access goes down?

I think the newspaper/internet conundrum is similar to the book/kindle one - it's personal preference

[sp1814]

joeluke

Yes, I get your point about having a connection to the Internet. I get Metro newspaper delivered directly to my iPad overnight, but if our Wifi decides to bomb out whilst I'm asleep, I'll get on the bus and will have a whole paper of nothing.

All of the papers and magazines I read have an iPad version, which is great, but then you're hostage to whether you've remembered to charge your device....