Quote: sootyj @ April 23 2010, 11:30 PM BSTSteve I hate to say but. Yes it does. It makes you a very, very bad person right up there with Steven Wright.
I do read the Mail occaisonally for research purposes.
But what good writers?
I used to like Keith Waterhouse & Ian Wooldridge.
The Crossword is very good, I've heard that Marc P does it as well, but he throws the rest of the paper away.
Aw!
And so they should!
It's a tough job running the forum, especially in these times of recession.
Quote: sootyj @ April 23 2010, 11:28 PM BSTTje Evening Standard?
Now that is truly abhorent. Like the Daily Mail but even more petty, boorish and even less funny.
Did you get to feed Brian Sewell?
Didn't use to mind the Standard; it can't afford to be too openly biased in case someone comes along and tries to split the market. Gone very news lite though since it became a freebie, though still more substance than the the likes of The Mirror or The Star.
Reading The Sun is like smearing shit over your eyeballs.
The Mail is a bit barking, but for proper mental you want The Express.
Quote: Chappers @ April 23 2010, 10:54 PM BSTWho really cares? Paper papers are cheap enough.
Being in Oz, I can't pop down the road to buy The Times. Some of its online content is excellent, such as this recent article: Hookers, hash and a haven from Robert Mugabe
I will be slightly miffed when I scan The Times online, click to read articles of interest and find I have to pay a subscription. The (possible) trend toward online media paywalls signals that only the wealthy educated elite will (likely) pay for good online content, while the rest of the world is kept dumber by reading the freely available, biased churnalism that is devoid of background and insight.
I don't know what worries me more, living in a world where most people get their news from free papers, or a world where you have to pay to read on-line. Very scary!
Quote: sootyj @ April 23 2010, 11:28 PM BSTTje Evening Standard?
Now that is truly abhorent. Like the Daily Mail but even more petty, boorish and even less funny.
Did you get to feed Brian Sewell?
Being boringly conservative by nature, I found The Standard not too bad and not bulky. Alas, I never encountered Brian Sewell, but I did get to meet a few pooftahs there, one of whom threatened me with "you will never work in England again" after I rejected his friend's advances during a night out. I was so naive back then, I had no idea they were queers. I thought that was just how British wannabe toffs behaved.
Quote: Kenneth @ April 24 2010, 12:23 AM BSTBeing boringly conservative by nature, I found The Standard not too bad and not bulky. Alas, I never encountered Brian Sewell, but I did get to meet a few pooftahs there, one of whom threatened me with "you will never work in England again" after I rejected his friend's advances during a night out. I was so naive back then, I had no idea they were queers. I thought that was just how British wannabe toffs behaved.
Engagingly Australian.
Quote: AngieBaby @ April 24 2010, 12:20 AM BSTI don't know what worries me more, living in a world where most people get their news from free papers, or a world where you have to pay to read on-line. Very scary!
They're effectively the same thing, if you think about it.
*Thinks*
I've thought about it and I've decided 'proper' papers witholding information is worse.
Papers are yesterday's news. Good riddance, epecially to those ridiculously big ones that were used mainly as social ezclusion device.
Quote: Kenneth @ April 24 2010, 12:13 AM BSTBeing in Oz, I can't pop down the road to buy The Times. Some of its online content is excellent, such as this recent article: Hookers, hash and a haven from Robert Mugabe
I will be slightly miffed when I scan The Times online, click to read articles of interest and find I have to pay a subscription. The (possible) trend toward online media paywalls signals that only the wealthy educated elite will (likely) pay for good online content, while the rest of the world is kept dumber by reading the freely available, biased churnalism that is devoid of background and insight.
£10 a month is probably the equivalent of buying it. You're not of Scottish descent are you?