Who buys a newspaper?

M0nica

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.

I’ve often found random articles in old newspapers that I didn’t pick up on at the time but then make sense of events that then happened. Can’t happen now as we switched to online during covid. But it did curb my obsession with cutting out and keeping old newspaper articles which started with me saving Katherine Whitehorns articles in the Observer.

Chocolatelovinggran

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

Good God no! I would never even glance at the Torygraph! You could have whichever newspaper you wanted actually - well that was the case in my local Waitrose.

The Guardian every weekday, Observer on Sundays. Have a subscription which makes it cheaper.

Love a newspaper

Saturday treat, my husband goes and buys me the Guardian. I read it online other days and make a standing order for it. God help us if it ever goes under...

I only buy 1 to put under the cat's litter. Best use of newspaper in my opinion. hugs

I do regret the disappearance of good local papers. There is nothing where we live now.

I just buy a Saturday paper as it has a decent TV guide and some good puzzles/crosswords, don't have much interest in the paper itself !

No , I haven’t bought a newspaper for years . I have digital Times and Sunday Times . One of the bonuses of a digital paper is that you can access previous issues and save articles .
My mums flat is full of old newspapers and folders full of articles cut out of the paper . She’s a hoarder , I’m the opposite and in the past would put newspapers in the recycling as soon as I’d finished.

J52

We have The Times every day. DH subscribes and gets vouchers, also an on line version. He pops to the village newsagents every morning, he’s an early riser.
In fact he’s reading it now, I’ve just finished the crossword. Not the cryptic one, it frustrates me having to think about it for most of the day!

We do too... Love the sunday magazines. He reads the paper and I read on my phone. We also have a local paper delivery every evening by the paperboy.

I spend most time doing the crosswords, more interesting than the news usually !

This might upset someone.

Our first DD died suddenly aged 7 months back in 1976 and we had her funeral 4 days later. At my PILs home I picked up the local weekly rag that had just been delivered. It was the Christmas issue and there on the front page was a column headed Baby Found Dead In Cot and a 4 inch long column all about our daughter's death. We knew nothing about the newspaper article, none of us had spoken to the press and what was printed was not what had happened. I still would love to give the journalist and the editor a good kicking. More than anything it taught me to never believe a word in the press or media.

I confess to buying the Daily Mail at regular intervals, purely for the puzzles section. I pass it on to my friend who uses it to line her cat's litter tray. (I hope that's saved my reputation)

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.

being ignored

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.

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.

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.

We still have one delivered every day.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Also have two online paid for subscriptions.