Who buys a newspaper?

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 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.

Guardian and Observer. Delivered every day.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

Starmer of course!

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”

I began buying a newspaper in my teens and once married had one delivered. So I suppose I’ve read a newspaper every day for 60+ years.

I also read and listen to other news sources.

Sitting as I write with tea and newspaper which gets read through breakfast at coffee break and lunch time if I haven’t finished it by then.

Digital for The Times and just weekends for a hard copy of The Age’ Very ,very different points of view, different countries, different politics which is how I like it.

It must be 15 years since I bought a newspaper. It became an unnecessary expense that I didn’t really miss once I stopped it. I read the news online from various sources.

I still buy the local paper, because I like to know what’s happening where I live, and a paper copy is the only way of finding out what’s on, as the online version only does main stories. I save them up to light the log burner, newspapers serve a good purpose in that.

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!

Surely it will die out completely with our generation Can you imagine any of your grandkids buying a newspaper? None of my children even buy one !

I used to love reading newspapers but now cant see the print.

Guardian delivered every day! Waiting now it to arrive.

I do get the headlines online of course and watch the TV news but that's pretty superficial. I like to read what going on in more detail and to consider alternative perspectives.

I buy a newspaper if I am passing the newsagent but whereas we used to have one nearly everyday this has dropped to a couple of times a week plus Sunday paper

We buy The Times on Saturdays. DH reads it from cover to cover with the supplements so it lasts us all week. The rest of the time we rely on the TV news.

We have The New World, Private Eye and Observer on Sunday.