So, I find it interesting to know what kind of newspaper a person reads, it can help to find out to find out more about themselves.

Also, this is a discussion chiefly about different types of newspapers, their values, and what type you prefer.

I refuse to read any manipulative crap!

Don't really read any nowadays, sorry. They are all just too bloody depressing or obsessed with "celebrities". Made me laugh the other day, overheard two blokes talking, one was saying how he is really interested in Politics & likes to keep up with ALL the latest news. He was reading the sun whilst saying this.

I mainly use the internet, BBC news is what I mainly read/watch on the website.

I tend not to read the newspapers anymore as I can't be bothered to try and know about politics, it's just too boring. Though if I do read a paper I usually go for the Times. I don't like the fact it's owned by nazi man Rupert Murdoch, but I believe it's probably one of the least biased papers out there. Plus I like the su doku :)

The Guardian.

Depends, the Metro, Sun, Mirror, or the Mail if I want a laugh. But the Guardian if I want some news.

Whichever one has the least ads, celebrity bullshit, page 3 girls, and stories about kittens riding skateboards.

Why would you bother with a newspaper when the internet is around?

1)No cost
2)You get RELEVANT information. If you want to read up about games, do it. If you'd rather study knitting patterns, same thing.
3)you can read all the opinions of something you can go ahead. You can read that the homeless are sinking our society, that they aren't, or a balanced set of views.
4) the internet isn't owned by nazi thought police.

I admit that I do read the Mirror. It's tripe and I hate it, but my dad buys it so it is the only tabloid I read with any regularity. It does have comic strips however.

fish food carl:
I see that the Metro had no votes. I simply had to help it out.

I must admit I sometimes read the Metro because it's free & it stops mentalists on the bus/train from trying to engage you in conversation.

The Guardian, occasionally reading the Times as it's in my house and presents an interesting counterpoint.

I read EDGE for my news

The Guardian is the only paper i read because it comes with a free Threatrical,literary and art exebition review/guides and it's what all the lower class scum near where i live won't touch it.

I used to read the Mail for the funny factor and the Independent for actual news.

Oh and the guardian. Charlie Brooker is superb.

When I lived in the UK, I used to read The Sunday Times (and Metro on the bus to work- does it still have the Nemi cartoons? I miss those.) Our local paper, The Citizen, had an odd line in hyperbole ("Badger Rampage!" and "Island of Death!" were my favourite examples.)
I remember reading a copy of The Daily Mail once out of boredom, and it contained a poll. "Should we bring back hanging?" I laughed. Living up to your reputation, eh fellows?

The Sun, it's a nice easy read in the morning when you haven't quite got your brains in yet.

EDIT:Yes Xhumed, Nemi is still around.

I tend to just keep up with current affairs on the BBC News website but, on the rare occasions that I bother to get one when I'm at uni, it'll be The Guardian. Also any combination of Metro, London Lite and The London Paper, depending on what gets thrust upon me in the street when I go into town.

When I'm at home and have no choice (other than getting up and buying my own, but meh, effort), I'll have a look at my parents' copy of The Mirror... is it still just The Mirror or is it back to The Daily Mirror again? Actually, I don't care.

The Saturday Times and my Local Paper (Boston Target)

Anything more and I would drown in my own recycling bin.

'and people who read the Times actually run the country'

Dont know where this quote is from, yes minister i think. But it manages in 10 words to persuade me to read the times, if i get a paper. Which i usually don't cos i am dead tired in the morning and they are dead old in the evening

wordsmith:

4) the internet isn't owned by nazi thought police.

Yet.

I read the Times and the Telegraph on Sunday mornings.
Damn, I'm old.

I don't buy any papers but I read the The Grauniad website, mainly because of Charlie Brookers column. And Private Eye (it's more of a newspaper than any tabloid)

I'm not a UK Escapist, but I do read papers from the UK occasionally, those being the Independent, Times and sometimes the Guardian and Telegraph. However, my paper of choice is the Irish Times.

Well, I "read" the Sun, but to be quite honest I look at the boobies, the stupid story of the day and the sport. And i'd never pay for it.
What I don't like about British newspapers such as the MAIL, The Sun, The Mirror is that their political bias is so blatant, and what comes with that is a load of opinions and missing facts from articles. I wouldn't like to think of them as the news.
I read the BBC website every day instead, they tell you about things which have happened in the world without opinions. I don't want opinions in the news, I want the news so I can form my own opinions.

The daily express, so i counted that as daily mail. I'm so sorry guys but it's the one my mother buys so it's the one I read. It IS entertaining though, and its even more fun when my mother beleives EVERYTHING in it, shes told me several times how the world is definately more violent than it was when she was young, I ask her 'have you ever SEEN any of these muggings?'
'mother: well no but thats because we live in the countryside '

Sigh

I only read the Metro for Nemi. She's lush.

speedcoreXdandy:
I don't buy any papers but I read the The Grauniad website, mainly because of Charlie Brookers column. And Private Eye (it's more of a newspaper than any tabloid)

Agreed. Private Eye is awesome. Although the book reviews are crazy pretentious.

The Mail, just for giggles, but usually, if I've got the time (which I normally do if I'm reading papers in the first place) the Times and/or Guardian, just because they have always seemed the least biased and most intelligent of UK papers, normally. Just out of interest, is there anyone here, who has read and truly beleives some of the articles from the mail/express (Now 10 whole pence cheaper than the Daily Mail, gasp!) or has seen any particularly funny articles in those papers?