Who buys a newspaper?

Todays headlines on front page

“Burnham bid to topple Statemer. But he must win by-election first”

“Farage paid £1.4m cash for home after £5m gift”

Starmer of course!

DH had one delivered every day but I did not continue his subscription. I miss it sometimes but not enough to buy one.

We have the Guardian, Observer and weekend I newspapers delivered. Always have.

I buy a Saturday newspaper and read it through the weekend.
argymargy, the free newspaper given by Waitrose was The Telegraph.

I don't buy, or have free newspapers at all, physical or online, I can't abide anything like The Guardian, etc., and the Sun, Mirror and so on are nothing but doom and gloom, politics and freaks in the jungle, whatever!

I love physical books on subjects I'm interested in, so I'm sticking to those!

We have the Saturday Guardian and Sunday Observer delivered, plus digital access. I get my news online these days, but much prefer a printed paper for background, puzzles, interesting articles. DH still has a local weekly paper delivered too, but it’s not what it was. Full of adverts and filler, not even printed locally, but he likes the sports pages and crossword. Ditto the Metro, but at least that’s free.

My DH buys a paper on Saturday as we get the tv magazine for the following week with it.

It used to have a section with recipes, gardening advice from Monty Don and a trivia page. All now gone and only the puzzle pages remain but the tv section is really good. The newspaper itself not so.

Digital Times and Sunday Times. When I visit my club (once or twice a week) I read the Guardian and the Telegraph for balance.

It is still possible to have newspapers delivered. I buy a paper whenever I go out shopping but I buy the local paper. It is unbiased and only reports on local events. I also like the puzzles.

Guardian and Observer. Delivered every day.

We have the Times everyday. Plus Private Eye and the Economist delivered. I don’t like the digital versions as the articles you read change your algorithm so that you get fed more of the same type of articles leading to an echo chamber.

The joy of the printed paper over digital media, is that digital media only show the top stories and stories that your algorithm shows. A good newspaper will show a wide range of stories across all genres with no personalisation.

The number of things I have learnt about or discovered by a random article in s newspaper is beyond counting. It rarely happens after reading digital media

Yes, we have papers a day most days.

We buy a newspaper maybe two or 3 times a week.
Always at the weekend.

Also have two online paid for subscriptions.

Until recently we also bought subscriptions to the Washington Post or New York Times (alternating!)

You need too much spare time to read everything you want to in them - it seems to me.

I haven't bought one in years and don't subscribe to any on-line either.

I do watch TV news though, on several channels, a couple of time a day at most.

I did subscribe to 'Positive News' which was delivered through the post. It sought to redress the balance in the mainstream media for whipping up people's anxieties about the state of the world.

Sadly I cancelled the subscription because it was a luxury I couldn't afford and I never got time to read it!

I agree with MOnica about the advantages of a print newspaper and 'random articles'.

We buy the Guardian and the Observer with their voucher scheme which makes them marginally cheaper. We collect it daily from a local shop; it's not cost effective for them to deliver any more.

I also have a digital subscription to the New World and the Financial Times.

10 minute walk to the newsagent every morning to get me going. Then read the paper while eating my breakfast.

We can still get newspapers delivered here.

If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would not be buying a newspaper in future I would have been shocked. However, I've not bought one for years.

The amount of information one can find online now is incredible. I've learned about so much that's going on in the world which we would never learn about if relying solely on newspapers.

We still have one delivered every day.

We have two delivered daily incl weekends. DH has vouchers for the Times and S Times and I have them for the little 'i newspaper', used to have The Observer as well but two mounds of unread supplements was too much.

I hope Bluebelle's comment about papers not lasting beyond our generation doesn't come about. Two of my adult daughters have papers on voucher schemes.

I subscribe to an online version of the Guardian and I have Private Eye delivered. I sometimes buy the Independent from the corner shop.

I dip into the BBC for news and views.

I did take the Telegraph cheap offer online for a month it was so biased in its reporting and editorial I didnt continue, the Guardian is also very biased in a different way. I want a "newspaper" to report news not tell me how to think and influence my views. Maybe I will try the FT online for a month.

The BBC is least biased but even that has a left leaning agenda

I do read the local paper to keep up with local happenings that is useful, I allow myself half an hour or so for a coffee when I do the weekly shop. Letters to the editor is always good amusement, outraged nimbys protesting about their pet interest not being ignored.

being ignored

We have the Times delivered every day and both read most of it. O H doesn't read about fashion and the only sport I read is the cycling.