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  • View Poll Results: Favourite Daily
    The Times
    28 17.39%
    The Sun
    6 3.73%
    Daily Mail
    21 13.04%
    Financial Times
    9 5.59%
    The Daily Star
    2 1.24%
    Daily Mirror
    3 1.86%
    Daily Express
    0 0%
    The Independent
    27 16.77%
    Daily Telagraph
    18 11.18%
    The Guardian
    46 28.57%
    Evening Standard
    1 0.62%

  1. MacDaddi's Avatar
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    Favourite Daily Newspaper
    TSR, what is your favourite daily Newspaper?

    These will be Nation-Wide papers not local ones.

    Also includes sister papers such as the Independent's "the I" paper
    Last edited by MacDaddi; 12-05-2012 at 17:42.
  2. dothestrand's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Guardian, having been brought up on it, but I rarely buy it. Their website is really good though, and my boyfriend does freelance work for them.
  3. Jake22's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The ol' currant bun is my standard go-to paper but more out of habit then anything. An entertaining quick read.

    That said, we get most of the major papers (sans the red tops which I have to provide myself) at work and I also look at the Independent, the Times and the Guardian on occaision.
  4. Aphotic Cosmos's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Grauniad, for the interesting commentaries and great reporting on environmental issues as well as science and technology (when not conflated with the former, a la nuclear power where opinion is frequently confused with fact).

    I also read the Independent for world news stories, but I'm less keen on the opinion pieces there these days, and the Telegraph, although I hate people like James Delingpole with an unbridled passion and mostly just read it to see what the enemy is thinking, and to laugh at the whinging in the comment threads about immigrants, wind turbines and low house prices.

    And yes, the Daily Mail. It's hard to avoid, even my built in DM-blocker extension in Chrome is not foolproof. Mostly for the 1 in 50 stories that the DM runs which are totally missed out on by the broadsheets.

    When I say read, what I really mean is that I browse the websites briefly in the mornings.
  5. Dux_Helvetica's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Telegraph. It's sensible and conservative.

    Don't really mind the Independent though. The Guardian as you might imagine I'm not such a fan of.

    Don't know if you're able to change this but 'Telegraph' is misspelled in the poll by the way.
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    (Original post by Dux_Helvetica)
    The Telegraph. It's sensible and conservative.

    Don't really mind the Independent though. The Guardian as you might imagine I'm not such a fan of.

    Don't know if you're able to change this but 'Telegraph' is misspelled in the poll by the way.
    You're right, OP it's T-O-R-YGRAPH.

    You also seemed to spell the Grauniad like the word Guardian, they try and avoid that if they can.

    Personally I read the websites of all the broadsheets other than the Times (not paying for it, Murdoch can jog), the Sieg Mail website for the comedy comments section and Mirror for errrm the football transfer rumours . In terms of agreeing with them tends to be the Guardian.

    Jim Hacker explains it well.
    Last edited by roh; 12-05-2012 at 18:13.
  7. Stiff Little Fingers's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Guardian and the Independent mainly.

    I go out of my way to avoid the garbage in the red-tops, the Daily Heil and the Torygraph's political bias is not something I could read and the Express irritates me - Diana's dead, get the **** over it. Oh, and the Times is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and there's no way he's seeing one penny from my wallet.
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    I'm a Telegraph girl.
  9. MacDaddi's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    Sorry about that guys, I can't change it (Telagraph instead of Telegraph) and I realised right after I put the poll up
  10. pr0view's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Metro coz its free!
  11. hungryaardvark's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The I for me: i find the independent too wordy, but the journalistic quality is good, so the I makes a good compromise. Failing that, I'm a fan of the Guardian
  12. Norfolkadam's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Guardian. :yy:

    If I was back home I'd sometimes get the Eastern Daily Press and I actually quite like the Evening Standard when I'm in London.

    Sometimes I read The Metro on the bus to work but ... god it's such utter dreck.
  13. AlexInWonderland's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Telegraph, reflects my political views, and unlike The Times, I can read their website without paying.

    Although, when I buy a physical paper to say read on a train journey I buy The Times due to it's more practical form.
  14. Ham22's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Guardian, although I haven't bought a physical newspaper in years.
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    Since they closed their website to free access i've not read as much, but The Times is by far the best.
  16. HarveyCanis's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Times is my favourite, however I can rarely afford it. It is sufficiently civil libertarian and economically right wing, which matches my own views.

    My lack of funds does inevitably end up with me reading a mixture of the Guardian and Telegraph online, mostly the Guardian. Though I ignore the laughable CiF section.
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    the i

    where are you
  18. Drewski's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Times. Both habit and the fact it only cost 25p while at uni.

    Couldn't give two hoots that it's Murdoch owned, they criticise and mock him and Sky just as much as any other paper bar Private Eye.
  19. FDR's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    The Independent, I guess out of habit.
  20. Rtcw's Avatar
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    Re: Favourite Daily Newspaper
    No metro?
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