FLY2 10,108 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I haven't read a daily since I retired nearly four years ago. Not missed it one bit. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I read all the newspapers on-line. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Got a PC and iPad, I just can't muster up the enthusiasm to read the news. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DavidA 153 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 They will only lie to you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 We were buying Mon-Fri Daily Mirror and Daily Mail £5.75 Saturday Same £1.50 Total Weekly Bill =£ 9.85 Sunday Same £2.60 We decided we needed to economise and because the papers were always full of bad news, it was decided we would see how we go without them. It is a month now since we bought our last newspapers. We have not missed them at all, and we are £40.00 a month better off. All the news we need is easily accessible on the Internet or TV. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 If anybody wants to read the newspapers online then bookmark this Internet site. http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/alltnews.htm 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Done, Many Thanks. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,466 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Reading newspapers online is obviously cheaper than buying them (unless you want The Times online which you have to pay for) but it's also useful because it gives you a much wider view of the world than you otherwise might get. All papers have a political bias, left or right. You will agree with one more than the other. So I find it interesting to see what "the other side" are saying about a particular subject. I don't suppose for instance, a Mail reader has ever been converted to become a Guardian reader, but at least now you can easily see how a story is being reported from another political viewpoint, without having to buy another paper. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I have the BBC website as my home page, so I can see at a glance what is happening and can read more if I want. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Not bought a newspaper for nearly 30 years, why spend good money reading bad news all the time ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 It's down to you to not read a newspaper for 30 years, catfan but when you find out that milk has gone up to sixpence a pint, don't be surprised. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Haven't read one since around 1971 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I MUST have my 'fix' of 3 a day, its not the same somehow on line Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,466 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Haven't read one since around 1971 We've gone decimal now, you know. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisB 150 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I don't. I usually glance at the headlines on the news stand in the supermarket and the one that astonishes me most is the Express. My parents took the Daily Express and Sunday Express for many many years and how a once respected national newspaper has descended into the absolute garbage which it is today beggars all comprehension. You can almost guess what the headlines will be: NEW CURE FOR ARTHRITIS NEW CURE FOR DIABETES NEW CURE FOR DEMENTIA These 'stories' have been done so many times now, it's almost as if the Express is taking the p+$$ out of it's declining readership! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 i wouldn't have bought it....it would have been someone elses Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 #15 That is if it isn't scaremongering about the extreme weather! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 If papers are not paid for how can they survive to be shown online.papers have always sensationalized,but we as brits love to discuss this crap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I don't pretend to know much about current affairs but I prefer to make up my own mind about things, without reading spin from a politically biased press. At one time I subscribed to 'Private Eye', which told as near to the truth as anything else I've read - as far as I could ascertain 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 My preferred news source is google news, as this summarises and groups reports on subjects. That way, I can see e different slants the rags put on the news according to their political bias. The Express ceased to be a newspaper when it was bought by some bloke who had made his money out of porn (Sullivan?). Since then, it's been nothing but a comic full of crap stories about Diana, Maddie, and the EU. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,508 Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Do we still read newspapers? Yes ...... We've had a paper delivered every day for all our married life. For years and years we had the Daily Telegraph Monday to Saturday and then when my husband was working overseas a lot I found I just didn't have time to read the paper and it would sit on the kitchen table unopened to then be dropped into the recycle bin unread. I changed our order to Daily Mail because it was easier to skim through over a cuppa coffee and it was half the price. Hubby doesn't seem to mind not having the Telegraph to read with his breakfast now. We have Sunday Times every week and to be honest that would satisfy me for the whole week, there's so much to read in it. Even when we're away on holiday we buy an English paper wherever they're available. I really can't imagine not having a newspaper to read each day. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 We get the local rag delivered each day. It does keep you up a little bit about what is going on around town. Bit like the NEP. My wife is a keen coupon collector and she figures that with what she saves on groceries etc. it just about pays for the paper. I have not done the math to see if she is right. It's a pretty quick read, not much substance. Get most of my news online, but don't trust much of what I read on there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Not bothered with newspapers for years, most over here are politically biased too, get all the doom and gloom I need from the tv news or on the computer. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Same here I get the Grauniad a couple of time a year but the week end edition is now 2.50 I think a bit too much Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 I was always a Daily Mail reader when I was working, but now I'm retired, I just don't have the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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