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which newspaper is most respected?

not which one do you read. which british newspaper is the most widely respected?

EDIT: a bit surprised that the times has only had one mention so far.

(edited 12 years ago)

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Reply 1

waltz2

The Daily Mail. Clearly.

Reply 2

proud nd luvin it

Daily Telegraph!! :awesome:

Reply 3

Apollo11

Original post by Jeebus42

The Daily Mail. Clearly.

Damn it! You got there before me :mad:

Reply 4

jvasos

Respected:

Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent, (Guardian)

The dregs:

The Daily Fail, Sun, Mirror etc

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Reply 5

-aimz

The Guardian is pretty good, and The Times.

Reply 6

hrickards

The Guardian, but I'm biased because they sponsor all sorts of cool developer stuff.

Blatantly 'The Sun'

The Financial Times and The Telegraph.

Reply 9

ByronicHero

I read the Guardian.

The Independent is pretty good :smile:

Reply 10

lemmata

The Telegraph, the Guardian, the Independent, and the Financial Times are usually viewed as the most respectable UK papers. It's generally the left-leaning that favour the Guardian and the Independent and the right-leaning that favour the Telegraph and the FT. The Times was historically highly respected, but went to seed when News Intl bought it.

Reply 11

Steevee

The Guardian? :lolwut:

It's just the Daily Mail on the other side of the coin.

Personally, I think the Telegraph and Times are the most respectable papers.

Reply 12

jelly1000

The Telegraph is certainly the most politically neutral, but any of The Guardian, Times or Telegraph are seen as decent newspapers

Reply 13

Aj12

Would't call the Guardian respected tbh. No paper with a very clear bias should be seen as a respected newspaper.

Reply 14

lemmata

Original post by Aj12

Would't call the Guardian respected tbh. No paper with a very clear bias should be seen as a respected newspaper.

It's widely respected by the general public, but I agree that I wouldn't overall respect a paper with such a pronounced leftist bias so as to publicly make collective pledges of political support (eg republicanism).

Reply 15

carpe diem 123

Telegraph, or perhaps the Financial Times

Reply 16

The_Internet

Original post by jelly1000

The Telegraph is certainly the most politically neutral, but any of The Guardian, Times or Telegraph are seen as decent newspapers

I don't know. I read the independent and that seemed pretty neutral. They are a paper that tries quite hard not to push any political dogma in to the paper. The telegraph seems right wing, and the guardian seems left wing though I'd read both of those

Reply 17

W.H.T

The Independent :biggrin:

Reply 18

lemmata

Original post by de_monies

I'd say that Britain has no truly neutral press; the Independent always comes over as having a slightly left-leaning editorial stance, and the Telegraph as definedly right-wing, though they're probably the most neutral major papers in the country.

Reply 19

User237126

Based on readership: The Sun (Most read in Britain), The Daily Mail (Largest female readership).

Based on quality of the actual journalism: The Financial Times, The Guardian (sometimes).