Newspapers

[ProfessorDavey]

You've described the Telegraph to a tee, I love the extremism of it that's the bit that makes me smile more than get annoyed with it, I'm so opposed to the lack of decent everyday morality of Murdoch Snr, Milly Dowler etc I couldn't possibly knowingly buy anything that passes through his hands, such as the Times.

Regards ippy

The Times wouldn't be my first choice, but I want a real paper and sadly the Independent isn't that anymore. I agree on Murdoch - but what to do eh!

The thing that really irritates my about the Telegraph is the kind-of casual acceptance that of course everyone really thinks how they do - the kind of equivalent of people who always talk about 'common sense' basically meaning what they thing regardless of whether it is common sense at all.

[SteveH]

Tony Benn said you should read a newspaper that has an editorial view with which you disagree.

And George Orwell once said that if you want to read the truth in a newspaper, you should start at the back - they usually manage to get the sports results right. He also said "some things are true, even though the 'Daily Telegraph' says so".

[ippy]

The Times wouldn't be my first choice, but I want a real paper and sadly the Independent isn't that anymore. I agree on Murdoch - but what to do eh!

The thing that really irritates my about the Telegraph is the kind-of casual acceptance that of course everyone really thinks how they do - the kind of equivalent of people who always talk about 'common sense' basically meaning what they thing regardless of whether it is common sense at all.

I think it's a case of like most things in life just do your best with all we have, there's no definitive answer.

Regards ippy

[Robbie]

When I worked in London I used to commute and picked up newspapers on the train which people discarded when they got off - outward and return journeys. I picked up all sorts, a couple of times a Scottish newspaper, goodness knows what it was doing around London. When I arrived at work people would ask me what paper I'd got for them today. There was also the free Metro but all the Metro is, is a hash of the tabloids.