Which newspaper do you read?

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And why?

I would assume it's not the daily mail!

But I've seen criticism for The Guardian on this topic as well...

i read the guardian, daily mail (for me the newspaper equiv of popping a zit - unsavoury, unedifying and yet strangely satisfying), various others online

i wait all week for sufficient local news to accumulate and then buy our county local rag on a friday

In my youth it was always the Guardian. For the last 20 years the Daily Telegraph.

For years DH used to buy it via pre paid vouchers which costs a lots less. The trouble was you felt committed to going to buy the wretched thing every day ( no shop or paper boy where we live). Then having got it I always read it from cover to cover.
A few months ago he decided to stop buying it. I thought I would miss it but in fact I feel strangely liberated.

Thank you - lots of food for thought!

FT and Times delivered every day plus at the weekend also the Telegraph. The best feminists are capitalists. Women can and want power and money. That is not in any way inconsistent with feminism. Indeed it is very unfair to women to be told that they need only to want and be concerned about matters domestic. The hijacking of feminism by the left has done it no good.

I used to read articles on the Times website everyday, but not now you have to pay.

so have switched to the Guardian online although it is generally too lefty for me, and I generally do not agree with many of the comments,
I do like alot of the blogs about TV - particularly the Mad Men one, which is the only place I have left comments.

If I do buy a paper it tends to be the TImes, but mainly because I will be on the train and need a smaller paper plus can spend time doing the Killer Soduku

DT on a Saturday (General Knowledge crossword!) and sometimes during the week. Very Tory, obviously, not particularly feminist friendly. Work has i at the moment and that seems to be much better from a feminist perspective and easier to read during a lunch time.

Over the web - the BBC. Agree with whoever said that the BBC World Service is excellent (although I am slightly biased as my cousin and her partner work for them!).

Used to read the Times and Guardian but stopped both during the election as was so disgusted.

Now read the Indie but secretly miss the Sunday Times.

Guardian online, sometimes the Times, usually have a look at one of the tabloids (although won't buy them) and a peak at what the Fail online is saying (just so I have the most recent data on what Kim Kardashian is up to and which immigrants are threatening to take my jobs and marry my daughter etc etc).

Sometimes have a look at the Metro and/or City AM on way to work.

Observer and News of the Screws on Sunday. 'tis tradition in our house.

Used to be a newspaper addict - I have spent my career in jobs that required you to read them all (especially the tabloids) every day. I haven't bought a real newspaper for years but will consume all and any when the opportunity presents itself - coffee shops, abandoned ones on trains, at work (when I used to work outside the home) or (now) in client's offices, in other people's houses, aeroplanes, free-sheets, local press etc. That way you get the physical pleasure without the cost or the recycling.

For actual news I prefer to use Twitter / iGoogle to customise the news for my neeeds - get most info based stuff from Guardian, FT and BBC online. That way I can weed out horrible crime stories, pointless celebrity twaddle, columnist axe grinding and royal coverage.

Guardian, independent, telegraph (has the best travel section, but some dreadful comment, particularly the forelock-tugging that goes on about the royal wedding), I occasionally look at the Age (australian paper).

I subscribe to the FT. The rest I look at online, apart from buying the Observer on the weekend for the food section.

I read The Guardian and El Pais online - both do good international coverage, though I tend to draw my own conclusions and I'm not massively fond of their columnists. I agree with what people have said above about some posters on the CiF, though, as an aside, isn't that judging a lot of people on the basis of the minority? the way judgements about mumsnet, say, are made?

When I'm in the UK I sometimes get the Independent.

I used to read The Economist a lot, but have really gone off it really - bunch of apologists for bankers and dictators.

Daily Telegraph, and the Mail when in cafes. But I'm not sure I'd fall into the 'feminist' category, really.

LeninGrad - sorry for misunderstanding - I use iGoogle rather than Google News. That way you just get RSS feeds from news sources / blogs / sites of your own choosing. So it's opt-in rather than filter out - bad use of language.

Of course all my good work goes out the window when I pick up The Metro on the Tube.

Putting food on the tables of the poor is not exploitation. It helps them.

I would agree women are ofte mugs and pick badly paid jobs because they can bea bit silly or are conditioned by silly parents to be in low paid roles. More fool them.

"The hijacking of feminism by the left has done it no good." Agree, Xenia. The perceived left-ness of feminism is the one big thing that puts me off it as a principle.

I don't use the word although the concept that all peopls should be treated fairly under the law and have a fair time at home is not one most people disagree with and is what it means to me.

What is very annoying is some women suggesting women don't want power, money and success and that those are awful male values. To suggest all women just want to clean houses, babies and husbands and go no further than the front door is not at all liberating for women and isn't correct. It is not male to enjoy earning a lot and running things. it's huge fun for many women and not bad at all.

It surely depends on the woman. Shouldn't feminism mean women (and men) having the choice as to whether they want to go out and earn a fortune or stay at home with babies? I chose to do the latter, though I could have - was doing - the former. What I wanted was choice. A top notch (private) education gave me the choice to do whatever I wanted (which, of course, is a whole different conversation).