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What's your favourite UK daily newspaper?

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SheilaS · 06/04/2011 15:03

After seeing Mumsnet in the Daily Mail today (a huge non-story) I was thinking about the papers I read (or don't read?!) and stumbled on this poll - I wonder if you have a favourite?

I found a poll online (it's free to click on)
www.folkdirect.com/newspapers

I'll put the results on here after a week maybe? I don't know if that poll expires, but it'll be interesting to see anyway!

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SheilaS · 16/04/2011 23:37

The Guardian is on that list at the bottom, Indiestarr :)

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claig · 20/04/2011 07:37

For balance and informativeness, without doubt, the Daily Mail

JemimaMop · 20/04/2011 07:39

I read "I" during the week and the Guardian/Observer at weekends.

mousesma · 20/04/2011 07:43

Daily Mirror but only of a weekend for the TV magazine :)

Otherwise I read BBC news (for the news) or the Gurdian online (for the commentary).

JollySergeantJackrum · 20/04/2011 07:45

We've been getting i since it came out. Before that we got the Daily Express, purely because the crossword is pitched at exactly the right level for us Blush

DorcasBouvier · 20/04/2011 17:21

The Mail online.

burleyburley · 20/04/2011 22:32

The Metro

bristolcities · 20/04/2011 23:38

The Guardian and The Mirror and always The Observer. I'm very pleased to see no one has said The Sun.

ilovesprouts · 21/04/2011 19:12

well i read the sun hides for cover !!!!!!!!!!!!

noddyholder · 21/04/2011 21:08

I like the 20p independent in the week.AT the weekend the observer nothing saturdays

bristolcities · 21/04/2011 22:18

Its ok sprouts I only buy the observer for the supplement any way [bublush]

ilovesprouts · 21/04/2011 22:21

i buy the mirror now and again

Meglet · 21/04/2011 22:22

Guardian.

galois · 21/04/2011 22:26

The Times / Sunday Times.

I have a soft spot for the Sun, though, if I see it lying around.

1gglePiggle · 21/04/2011 22:34

I always volunteer to go to the Chinese takeaway so I can read the sun! People are so snobby about it but it is the most popular newspaper in the uk! It's a lot more entertaining to read than the broadsheets.

bristolcities · 21/04/2011 22:41

But the mirror is entertaining just slightly a lot less right wing.

bristolcities · 21/04/2011 22:42

scrap the slightly, I obviously changed my mind Grin

smokinaces · 21/04/2011 22:45

Sprouts, I am a Sun reader too!

Kittytickle · 21/04/2011 22:54

Lady Fanny of Bum Street: I don't know if The Daily Mail (The Daily Nazi imo) was Hilter's favorite newspaper, but he was certainly popular with them: In the 1930's, they voted him man of the year, so they are not so different from what they were then, ha!

The Guardian is my favourite if I had to choose one.

mrswarthog · 21/04/2011 23:01

Metro daily, Telegraph online, Times at the weekend - used to be (for 20 years) The Guardian but tired of their anti-semitism & general anti-religion. AND at least both the Torygraph & the Thunderer are not po faced. Can't bear the Mail, just seems spiteful (& they pay the awful Liz Jones) [bugrin]

Rhian82 · 21/04/2011 23:06

But does it not depress you just how much stuff in newspapers like The Sun is made up? There was a famous apology: here - this is a newspaper that will honestly invent horrific details so that its readers will have a laugh at a tragic event without any thought whatsoever as to the effect this will have on the family and friends. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

All newspapers are biased, and all reporting is. But some journalists just have no consciences.

NetworkGuy · 23/04/2011 02:51

I have bought perhaps 15 (individual) papers in the last 35 years. If I come across a paper on a train or bus, I will take a look, but have used internet news sources for the past 10 to 15 years (dial-up using Enterprise 0345, Freeserve and Claranet, before broadband from 2001) and before Freeview/OnDigital, used CEEFAX and Oracle (Teletext services) plus local and national TV/Radio News. From the latter half of the 80s into the mid 90s, I used news pages on Prestel and information from Compuserve/ USENET for science, computing, telecomms, and similar topics.

I had regularly enjoyed Computing and Computer Weekly until around 2000 (from the mid 80s) and in recent years once again had Computer Weekly though this week printing has ceased entirely (a shame in my view).

jobrien1980 · 03/05/2011 13:04

I don't really bother buying newspapers in the UK (moved here from Ireland 5 years ago) as their biases annoy me. At the moment I read the BBC news website and keep an eye on the online Guardian and Telegraph on the basis that the truth lies somewhere in between :-P

Hates: the Mail...and the Times lifestyle supplements, which are just not in the real world (hilarious article a while back from a mother in London complaining that she had 'only' £70,000 a year to live on..."nannies are so expensive these days" blah de blah).

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