British Newspapers

[SteveH]

A yank in one of my Facebook groups asked for information about the reliability as news sources of British newspapers, as he's movng here. I answered thusly:

Times (conservative), Independent (mildly liberal), and Guardian (more left-wing) are, I think, reasonably reliable among the high-brow papers. The Telegraph, also highbrow, is notoriously biased to the right (often called the 'Torygraph'). The Mirror (lowbrow, Labour) is somewhat sensationalist, but not too bad for reliability, at least compared to the Sun (lowbrow, very sensationalist, very right-wing, utterly biased). The Star is a comic which even its readers don't take seriously. The Mail and Express are middle-brow, right-wing (eye-wateringly so in the case of the Mail) and very biased and totally unreliable. The Mail in particular is as near to being openly racist as any paper can get away with nowadays, while the Express specialises is ridiculous, alarmist stories about freak weather events. Both fawn quite nauseatingly over the royals.

What are other people's opinions about the British press?

[ProfessorDavey]

A yank in one of my Facebook groups asked for information about the reliability as news sources of British newspapers, as he's movng here. I answered thusly: What are other people's opinions about the British press?

From James Hacker - as in Yes Minister:

'Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.'

[Roses]

We haven't taken a newspaper for donkey's years, but back in the day we took The Times.

[Walter]

A yank in one of my Facebook groups asked for information about the reliability as news sources of British newspapers, as he's movng here. I answered thusly: What are other people's opinions about the British press?

I used to take a weekly publication published on Thursdays if I remember correctly . It was very honest and quite amusing and reflected much of society at the time .
Now, what was it called? Oh yes , The Beano .

[Aruntraveller]

I'm not in any way defending it, but the Daily Fail is not quite as bad as it used to be, thanks largely to the departure of Dacre.

[jeremyp]

A yank in one of my Facebook groups asked for information about the reliability as news sources of British newspapers, as he's movng here. I answered thusly: What are other people's opinions about the British press?

The Times is owned by Rupert Murdoch. It can't be trusted.

Wikipedia took the unusual step of banning the Mail as a source - it's that unreliable.