What does your newspaper say about you?

[Emmielu]

Looking around on here & other forums its mainly the guardian that gets the best comments for great reads & correct info. Daily Mail however doesnt. But what do you think the paper you read says about you when you compare it on here? iykwim?

I read daily mail online & sky news online but by reading daily mail & comparing to what people think on here & other forums, i feel a little common or dumbed down lol!

According to Ipsos Mori polling the top 5 issues in the country in June 2010 were

www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=2624

Education comes below crime and immigration.

So if the Mail readers' concerns are as given above, then the Mail is representative of the people.

The Mail makes me - all that hatred. Someone who has committed a crime is never just 'the burglar' or 'the rapist' - he/she is always the 'Bosnian Immigrant' or the 'Polish benefits claimant' - the slant is always that crimes are committed by foreigners who should not be here. Of course plenty of similar crimes are committed by native Britons, but somehow these never make it into the Mail.

And woman who work are evil for neglecting their children, whilst women who stay at home and look after their children are sponging off their husbands' hard work.

It should be called the Hate Mail.

I'm not sure that my newspaper says anything about me. I read The Times because it is well written on the whole. It is biased slightly to the right and I'm a Labour voter but there are enough left wing writers to balance it out a bit and anyway I don't think it really matters, it is good to hear opposing views.

Dh would prefer it if I bought The Guardian but I don't enjoy it at all, it's quite sloppy and the writing style bores me.

We used to be a two newspaper housesehold (Indy and Guraniad, Observer and Sindy), then went down to one newspaper (Guraniad/Observer), then only the Saturday Guardian and the Observer, then only the Saturday Guardian and now most weeks we don't even buy that.

We still read it online (in addition I read Spiegel Online for my German news & current affairs) but I refuse to shell out more than a quid even on normal weekdays.

The content seems to have become more and more advertorial, and the content that interests me most (liveblogs of news and current affairs) aren't in the print edition anyway.

When I read Flat Earth News last summer it added to my feeling of being turned off from newspapers in general.

I also listen to Radio 4 (Today & PM) on my commute. My colleague tells me this means I'm boring.

Don't read any newspaper, and since moving, there aren't even free local papers through the door.

I rarely if ever watch TV news, radio is usually on BBC R4 or R5 but must say that if I hear the same 90 second clip of some BBC reporter on a later news broadcast I switch off the news and do something else.

Online I tend to follow technology section of *> NewsNow.co.uk

Can't stand the Guardian, think it's a shambles of a paper.

I don't buy papers very often but when I do it's i
I mostly read teletext and watch the BBC news

I rejecct all newspapers. I said on another thread today that I can't stand the fact that newspaper articles consist less of fact and more of inflammatory BS designed to try to feed me my opinion. If I found a paper that just told the news without opinion shoved in, I'd buy it.

The Guardian's a real mixed bag, that's its problem. I like its investigative journalism very much, when it can be arsed to do it, and some of their investigative articles have totally influenced my life and career choices. I'm happy with its political stance.

However it pollutes itself with its almost totally London-centric view of life in general and devotes way, way too much time to navel-gazing crap that only middle-class, high-earning London types could possibly have the luxury of giving a shit about. So I totally understand why people sneer.

I do really like Zoe WIlliams though. Zoe I know you're a MNer and I'm glad you're writing more widely for them, I love your stuff.

Zoe Williams does the paper review on sky news and is about the only guardian liberal leftie i can stomach.

I think the Guardian is a load of balls! I sometimes look at it online.

I haven't bought a paper for years, I sometimes read the Daily Mail at work.

Does the Daily Sport still exist? Is that even classed as a newspaper?

Having been part of a couple of news stories in the past year (very minor ones) and noticed that every fact was wrong although carefully presented ie a bystander said etc, I am much more cynical about news.
i read the Times but do not take any article as gospel.

Imperfectionist - am curious... If you can't bear to be seen with a paper, how can you work for it?! Genuine question, probably naive, but how do you work for a paper you have zero affinity with?

I take the Sat and Sun Times
yes, I said that on purpose
It's as close to MOR you can get, I think. And I like the supplements

Private Eye for real news

@HomeEcoGnomist, I can't be the only person to have worked for a company or government whose ethics I disagree with? I think that is quite a luxurious stance to take, on the whole.

Anyway, in answer to your question, I was a young journo on one of my first jobs - when offered a job on the biggest selling national newspaper, or my local rag with a circulation of 10,000, I was tempted and I took it.

I enjoyed my time there (on the whole) I learned a lot, I progressed in my career, I didn't get sucked in, I left for a better job, and years on I'm lucky enough to work somewhere I have 100% affinity with. As a youngster making my way in a very competitive field, I didn't feel like a hypocrite, I felt I'd been given an opportunity. And I didn't know then what I know now. Who did?

'Private Eye for real news' yes most real news is elsewhere these days, since the move towards lifestyle supplements. (The magazines the lifestyle stories should be in are now advertorials.)

I read the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph most days, courtesy of my workplace. My political views are fairly leftish, but I like to see what other papers have to say and have seen some good writing in the Telegraph. Agree that there is too much navel-gazing in the Guardian atm, would like to see them spend more time on journalism. Can't stand the Daily Mail for the way it tries to get lower middle-class people such as me feel hard done by: I don't need more hatred and envy in my life.

I only buy i Independent for train journeys other than that I look at most of them on line.
I find myself looking at the Mail and then immediately needing to shower.

I read all the papers (over the net), every newspaper has it's own propaganda slant on everything. They are all trying to sell you lies to promote their own agenda and they all have one, very rarely do I see any real unbiased news (that includes the Guardian which some people here seem to think is a cut above the rest, it isn't). I suppose that makes me multiple personalities

bobbledunk

Totally agree, I dont read all but read independant, telegraph, times and daily mail occasionally - guardian.

Sometimes I am shocked by how the Guardian removes what i would say is very critical info from an article, and often the daily mail gives the full back ground. Also alot of articles in indepenandt are similary doctored..and you cant comment on alot of them.

The mail and telegraph give you lashings of what they think is unfair etc..and lay it on thick.

I would never ever read just one paper to be honest,....and I would worry about anyone spouting views from just one!

If you want to get a broad picture of anything you dont just go to one source. Out of all the papers though, I would say the Guardian shocks me the most for biased slanted reporting.