What paper do you read?

j dub u · Post by **j dub u** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:17 pm

kins83 wrote:
jim wrote:Special mention must go to the Metro which I read daily on yon bus. The cartoon "Nemi" by Lise that is in it is so fucking astoundingly terrible it's quite beyond belief. I read it every day and it hasn't failed at being consistently woeful yet. It's addictively bad!
Amen. Apart from that though, the Metro isn't a bad read for free! I like it when you get two people battling it out over the course of a week in the letters page. Passes the week nicely!!

i'll give the metro a Amen to always on the way home from work takes me exactly 25minutes to read it from baker street to canning town.

Nice!

benjybars · Post by **benjybars** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:40 pm

allow the metro.. allow all the free london papers..

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:06 pm

metalboxproducts wrote:Do you think the back lash is partly to blame on people/media expecting so much from a labour government and said government dilivering so little. Or rather Blair being more of a torie then Thatcher. Not much has changed really from the tories in fact it's just like the tories have been in power for the last ten years

Yeah, I was just saying that I can't think of one paper that supports Labour anymore. The media is technically the only real opposition (and even they're found wanting).

You can always depend on the Telegraph to be tory, but the Guardian and Mirror both are traditionally left wing which would indicate that the friends they tried to make in the centre-right papers hate them, and the people they were supposed to be representing dislike them too.

No wonder they're so quick with the injunctions

obiwan · Post by **obiwan** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:01 pm

benjybars wrote:allow the metro.. allow all the free london papers..

Can read one of these back to back in thirty seconds!
The best things in life don't come for free

ruskie · Post by **ruskie** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:39 pm

Daily Mirror. Labour through and through non of that tory biased crap in the sun etc.

misk · Post by **misk** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:51 pm

the onion.

its where all my views come from.

clarkycatdealer · Post by **clarkycatdealer** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:27 pm

the sun , newsof the world , daily mail.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:48 pm

The Times, and The Observer at the weekends.

ruskie · Post by **ruskie** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:34 pm

Shonky wrote:
metalboxproducts wrote:Do you think the back lash is partly to blame on people/media expecting so much from a labour government and said government dilivering so little. Or rather Blair being more of a torie then Thatcher. Not much has changed really from the tories in fact it's just like the tories have been in power for the last ten years
Yeah, I was just saying that I can't think of one paper that supports Labour anymore. The media is technically the only real opposition (and even they're found wanting).

Can't believe you can compare blair to thatcher. Not saying labour have delivered on all their promises but the first years under blair were spent undoing the mistakes the tory goverment made. Thatcher years to me mean boom and bust, unemployment at record levels and general disregard for the working class and especially northern working class towns where she had little or no support. I have witnessed first hand the damage that women did to communities in yorkshire after destroying the mining industry and part of the problem in these communities today is that they are still recovering from the monumental loss of jobs in the area. Be intrested to hear what your opinions are though why you compare the two?

If you compare the sun and mirror on a day where a big story about the government has dropped it is clear to see the editorial bias for labour and tory. Sometimes quite subtle and done in a way that can be scathing but with a point to it.

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:11 pm

Thatcher is the best thing that happened to this country.

Blair is a lying bastard - who's done absolutely fuck all. His legacy is nil.

gena · Post by **gena** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:33 pm

I read "National Geographic", "Illustrated science", "Medical science" and other medical papers

tootsi dj · Post by **tootsi dj** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:35 pm

The Sun simply cause thats the only paper thats ever in my house,

ufo over easy · Post by **ufo over easy** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:26 pm

I read The Week cos it's great and I'm lazy.. their condensed versions of the past weeks editorials and stuff are pretty excellent, and seem balanced. Good way to get a fairly broad overview quickly.

ruskie · Post by **ruskie** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:47 pm

Spaceboy wrote:Thatcher is the best thing that happened to this country.

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Bold statement. Better than Winston Churchill?

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