Which newspaper?

[NotABanana]

I really don't get why everyone hates the DM and thinks those that read it are a bit

I am looking to buy a paper each day and interested in what the general opinion is on which paper mostly prints the truth.

Times here

Sunday Times, I take DS1 with me to the newsagent to lug it home

Heh heh heh

Guardian... of course.

There is an incredibly high rate of Guardian readership on MN according to this thread. They should sponsor us or something.

I would die if i couldn't read a paper (a proper paper, not online crap) every day.It is an absolute must.

Guardian - G2 is good for features - society, women, work, family, health etc etc - all a bit more newsy and interesting than most featurey stuff, if that makes sense. foreign coverage and news in the main bit is good. economic and financial coverage not as good as it could be.

telegraph is way more biased, imo, than the grauniad. it thinks everyone sends their kids to private school for starters which gets right up my nose.

mail can be incredibly mysoginistic. likes its women at home.

for pure news you can;t beat FT and the Economist.

I don't think the Telegraph is way more biased than the Guardian - surely it is just a question of which bias you happen to share? The notion of objectivity in reporting is not credible, even the very act of selecting one story over another creates a bias.

The one thing I would praise about the Guardian (even though I don't agree with their politics) is that, according to Nick Davies, it had the lowest rate of stories deriving directly from wire copy or PR material - 50%. The Times had the highest at 69%.

Even 50% is way to high for a quality newspaper.

Love the Times for everyday and weekend, and the Mirror or the Sun for less intellectual stuff on the weekend. Will occasionally pick up the Observer on a sunday, but only read the magazine bit really...

Am v averse to the Indy and the Guardian, as everyone read them at uni and thought they were tres left wing and cool, and it made me want to throw bits of canteen food at them.

Guardian and Observer, same as my mum and stepdad - for some years we used to get all 4 "broadsheet" papers on Saturday and Sunday but have decided that was too ridiculous.

When I was a student and the Independent first started coming out it was read by people who claimed they were independent and voted Lib Dem - ugh - now often it's better politically than the Guardian, but I tend to read features more than news and the Guardian works for me there.

As I'm not a liberal and wasn't brought up as one, I don't think of the Guardian as that left wing, it's more the best of a bad lot to me.

dp sometimes gets the Morning Star.

I don't like the Daily Mail. And I thought it only liked women to stay at home if they had husbands in well paid jobs - it certainly doesn't like people staying at home in receipt of benefit. I don't like it because it encourages every prejudice going.

I must be the only person in the world who doesn't know which paper supports which political party.

No notabanana, I don't really get the subtleties either, I get the Guardian or Indie and the Sun for a balanced view . I know the Daily Mail is baaaad!

Actually I don't really read any papers any more as too poor and we never get around to reading them (oh to have our weekends of reading papers in bed back!) so I get The Week (and still barely read it!). But DH works in a Newsagents so brings home all the supplements from the weekend papers and I spend hours in the bath reading them!

the independent and on sunday the observr and the notw sometimes if there is a good scandal

notabanana if you google times subscription, you should be able to get a sub for £2 a week for 12 weeks, I just have.

I thought everyone takes the Daily Mash?

Guardian daily and Observer on Sunday (although I'm not that pleased with the Observer these days).

Oh BTS,in that case,join in our regular Sunday bitch about the Nobservber. All welcome!