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Post by The Quito Diet on Dec 8, 2013 22:36:10 GMT
What do you use to get your updates?
Personally BBC News app on my tablet is the first thing I check in the morning. Also got a Guardian app as their sports opinion pieces are usually a good read. Loathe to admit I do regularly look at Daily Mail online as it's full of pictures (which hides their shocking journalism) that pad out stories well, and if I'm buying a paper it's usually the i just because it's cheap and usually an interestingly brief read.
I did try the FT whilst at uni but it was boring and served only as a reference in a few random assignments.
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Post by Maskya Yoshida on Dec 8, 2013 22:39:08 GMT
Okay who's the posh bastard who reads the independent
Big fan of the Guardians music and football coverage and BBC is my home page.
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Post by Dan on Dec 8, 2013 22:40:36 GMT
I only ever buy a paper if I want something to read on a train for 20 minutes or something, in which case I buy the Sun just because it's cheap and has enough rubbish in it to keep me amused for a few minutes.
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Post by allah on Dec 8, 2013 22:41:25 GMT
The Guardian is pretty much the entirety of my news coverage. Big fan of the comment pieces and news pieces. BBC News is useful as well, occasionally weirdly biased in one way or the other though. Also, finally somewhere half decent to stick this piece.
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Post by Germany's Top Scorer on Dec 8, 2013 22:42:12 GMT
Okay who's the posh bastard who reads the independent Big fan of the Guardians music and football coverage and BBC is my home page. I read it on occasion cos I borrow it from a chap at work who reads it, but you said this before I voted D: Then again, I also read Metro pretty much daily so maybe not posh.$
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Post by ic on Dec 8, 2013 22:42:15 GMT
The sun for dear Deirdre
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Post by Gobble Gobble on Dec 8, 2013 22:53:46 GMT
It all makes sense now.
I'm definitely one for the Guardian although BBC is useful as well.
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Post by Chelsfccg on Dec 8, 2013 22:55:56 GMT
Mostly use BBC, will sometimes give the Mirror a quick read.
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Post by g7vikings on Dec 8, 2013 23:00:39 GMT
I check the bbc first, then read the guardian's columns and then when I need to kill time in work go on the daily mail and perv on whoever they find currently relevant.
If I buy a paper it's the times. Best sports writers around. And that's why I'd buy a paper.
Other than that, it's twitter. Or even here at times.
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Post by Alex07 on Dec 8, 2013 23:02:41 GMT
I get most of my news from the Guardian app and read the majority of their football stories on a daily basis. They do some really good articles and the comments section is usually an interesting read.
Rarely ever buy a paper though. We get told to buy the FT by our lecturers and I'm sure it's like 20p in the uni shop, so I probably get it about once a month.
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Post by Shinra on Dec 8, 2013 23:03:15 GMT
I dont actually bother to check news but if I see the mirror on the table unattended I occasionally flick through it and have a go at the puzzles if they're not done yet. I'd never buy a newspaper myself because of the Internet but I don't even bother checking the news online now. For some reason it just doesn't interest me that much to know what's going on and it's usually bad anyway. Of course some times I'm present when ITV news is on as well but again I wouldn't personally choose to put it on.
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Post by Square on Dec 8, 2013 23:03:37 GMT
Always check BBC, Daily Mail is kind of a habit, my parents always bought it so must have got it from them. Since I started working I get the FT every so often, nout in there that interests me most of the time though so always feel pretty guilty ha.
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Post by constant on Dec 9, 2013 14:02:05 GMT
Over here I start my mornings with The Guardian (and this place) and then check the BBC occasionally throughout the day to see if anything interesting is breaking.
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Post by sween on Dec 9, 2013 18:32:28 GMT
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Post by U R GAY on Dec 9, 2013 18:49:30 GMT
It's all bullshit. I try to avoid it all. I keep an eye on things like BBC or the TV news roundups but try my best to avoid opinion pieces. Most news I get is from twitter nowadays, most opinion I'll get is person to person or over forums like this. Pretty sure we could write a sports newspaper that rivals any sports coverage in any of the papers. Having dabbled with journalism I find it very easy and was shocked by how little I had to try to get stuff published or impress journalists. Fairly low standard. Reporting is much the same as writing college/uni essays, a case of knowing what bullshit to say and what order to put it in. I don't have any time for the majority of opinion pieces I see in papers, I give less of a fuck about what Martin Samuel or Oliver Holt has to say about football than what Pestar or Djed have to say about it. They're no more qualified. Get the quotes and report the news. That should be a journalists' role. I don't see why I should be subjected to opinion being printed in national newspapers. By all means put them online and if someone wants to search for it they can find it, don't waste pages in a NEWSpaper. That goes for front of paper stuff too (cunts like Jan Moir, Richard Littlejohn, Ian Hyland or that Brick woman) because it always purports some agenda, and it's usually politically motivated, racially motivated or motivated by what advertisers they're trying to attract. Don't need indoctrinating.
The family buy the Daily Mail despite my best efforts to ween them off it.
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