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Newspaper Readership Poll

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Swedes · 31/01/2009 19:52

Please answer the following questions - please post once only. And do not comment so as to deter Daily Mail readers.

  1. Which paper do you mostly read Mon-Fri?

  2. Which Sunday paper do you read mostly?

Please answer with one paper. No pretending - if you feel you should answer Guardian and Observer but in reality read the Daily Mail and News of the World, please namechange and answer truthfully.

OP posts:
twinsetandpearls · 31/01/2009 22:17

pmsl at the guardian and telegraph, are you a floating voter?

Quattrocento · 31/01/2009 22:17

  1. Which paper do you mostly read Mon-Fri? The Financial Times

  2. Which Sunday paper do you read mostly? The Times

noonki · 31/01/2009 22:22

swede - understand your enemy!

I really can't deal with the observer anymore - so it's either NOTW (if feeling like a slob out)

which means I'm left with

Mail on Sunday (pigs will have to fly to the moon before)

Sunday Mirror (sim to NOTW)

sunday times is terrible

sunday sport - slice of porn with your fry up darling

so Telegraph it is - I just remind myself that it is as right as can be, and argue with it in my head!

noonki · 31/01/2009 22:22

swede - understand your enemy!

I really can't deal with the observer anymore - so it's either NOTW (if feeling like a slob out)

which means I'm left with

Mail on Sunday (pigs will have to fly to the moon before)

Sunday Mirror (sim to NOTW)

sunday times is terrible

sunday sport - slice of porn with your fry up darling

so Telegraph it is - I just remind myself that it is as right as can be, and argue with it in my head!

WilfSell · 31/01/2009 22:25

Oh, and we have New Scientist and the Eye for toilet reading.

Doesn't everyone...?

Original poster
Swedes · 31/01/2009 22:31

Justabout - It's far too early to draw conclusions.

I find the Guardian really annoying and I find the Telegraph irritating.

OP posts:
BCNS · 31/01/2009 22:32
  1. none 2)Sunday Times
Threadworm · 31/01/2009 22:32

I was in the Telegraph once.

thumbwitch · 31/01/2009 22:41

Twinset - not a floating voter, no! I pick the paper on the front page usually, or on what they have on special (man it drives me mad if the DM has something on offer that I want, I have to persuade my sister to buy it so that I don't have to besmirch myself! )

But I can't stand the Times and the Indie is a bit too up its own arse sometimes.

When I worked in Oxford we had a cryptic crossword group at teatimes - 4 of us would each buy one of the broadsheets and we would work through the cryptics. We discovered an interesting hierarchy of difficulty!

Original poster
Swedes · 31/01/2009 22:44

Threadworm - did you perform sexual favours for the vicar?

OP posts:
pooka · 31/01/2009 22:46
  1. The Times (including Saturday)
  2. The Sunday Times

Am thinking of changing Mon-Fri and then hanging on to The Times on Sats and Suns (would miss the jumbo crossword on sats)

moondog · 31/01/2009 22:47

Telegraph/Saturday Telegraph
Knobserver (althoguh it is really pissing me off these days)

I've read the paper every single day of my life since i was 11, so 30 years.

Zaftig · 31/01/2009 22:51

The only paper I read is the Evening News. It's the Edinburgh local paper.

But I do read the BBC news site.

twinsetandpearls · 31/01/2009 22:53

The rightwingers seem to post later on.

AnnakeyRules · 31/01/2009 22:56

The Times
The Sunday Times

Hassled · 31/01/2009 22:57

I've been reading the Guardian since 1984 - it's just become part of who I am, like my fanatical love of peanut butter. I'm admiring of people who've actually changed papers - I think most people just stay in what they've designated their comfort zone. Or they read the paper their parents read, because it's familiar.

Private Eye is one for train journeys - I'm unable to get on a train without a copy of PE.

Quattrocento · 31/01/2009 22:58

Who are the right wingers TSAP?

twinsetandpearls · 31/01/2009 22:59

The Telegraph/ Times readers.

Quattrocento · 31/01/2009 23:01

I'm not sure you are entirely right about Times readers. The Telegraph though well you are probably right about them.

herbietea · 31/01/2009 23:08

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thumbwitch · 31/01/2009 23:09

come come, TSAP, the extreme right wingers are the DM and the Daily Express readers, surely?

My grandad always had the Daily Mirror as he was a self-confessed communist.

Spidermama · 31/01/2009 23:11

  1. Guardian on a Monday. Tues-Fri either Independent, Sun, guardian or Mirror - whichever takes my fancy.

  2. Observer.

mynewnickname · 31/01/2009 23:19

Any of the 'broadsheets' mid-week online except the indie as I find it dull.

Saturday - Guardian AND Telegraph - covering both ends of the political spectrum there.

Sunday - used to be a very loyal ST reader but have gone right off it. Very trashy these days, celeb obsessed and up its own.

Can I add a new dimension to this thread (with apologies to the OP). Which supplements/ sections to people tend to read most e.g. travel/ property/ family/ personal finance?

Molesworth · 31/01/2009 23:21
  1. read the guardian online in the week
  1. nobserver

whereas DP is more of an Evening Standard/News of the World man

twinsetandpearls · 31/01/2009 23:42

yes U was sure about the Times, I think the Times should be right wing or certainly right of centre but attracts all sorts of vagrants.