Is "The Times" a good newspaper ?

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Reply 60

LawBore

It is the best all-round paper.

Reply 61

Xenopus

It's the one I choose to read, when I read a paper, but it has a proportion of crap in it like all papers do.

Reply 62

Mister_Pig

In France "The Times" is known as the best british publication. "The Guardian" is also very well known.

Reply 63

Diaz89

Anything owned by News Corp and Rupert Murdoch is a steaming piece of ****.

Reply 64

AntiMonarchist

It's not bad.

The Daily Star pwns it though

Reply 65

Mali Singh

id say the Times is the best, but I was really surprised that the Fort Hood story wasn't on the front page a few weeks back.
Maybe im being slightly pedantic... :p:

Reply 66

S_123

Bagration

Sorry, I meant it was hilarious.

Oh right haha. The forum-posting-machine had starred out a word in your previous post which I was finding really confusing lol :laugh:

Reply 67

Flying Scotsman

Come on, the telegraph is much better than the times for actual news content, the website is better as well. The times seems to have become very sensationalist since the start of the recession.

Why are people saying the independent? Last time I looked at it, it had some climate change story on the front page and not very much other news inside.

Reply 68

CasinoBrawl

It's the one I read, yes. Although I was slightly put off by a column a couple of weeks ago that basically said "O NOES MY SON'S GOING TO SECONDARY SCHOOL AND I CAN'T HAVE HIM GOING TO A STATE SCHOOL I JUST CAN'T!1!"

Reply 69

Joseph90

The Times is a good newspaper and I read it every day.

The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent are good too.

Reply 70

gbduo

Yes, I read it and always have done.

My school was the former home of the founder of The Times newspaper, so I grew up with The Times as it was delivered FOC every morning to the school!

Reply 71

Joseph90

Diaz89

Anything owned by News Corp and Rupert Murdoch is a steaming piece of ****.

I'm going to say this as politely as I can.

You're talking ********.

Reply 72

skipp

I remember when I worked in a newsagents...Not sure if it's the same elsewhere but there were definitely shopper habits there: the Mail was by far the most popular...mainly because they gave free things away, but also because it was a fairly middle of the road paper. The red-tops were the only ones I'd call 'Bad Papers'...occasionally people would actually apologise for buying them :giggle:

The number of Times readers definitely decreased whilst I was there so despite never having read the paper myself I guess the Times readers probably had good reasons for doing so, most began to buy the mail or stopped buying a paper but some began reading the telegraph or guardian...personally I like the guardian :h:

especially at the weekend...but I don't buy papers regularly...the Times just didn't seem to be able to compete with the mail, lost customers and this probably had an affect on the quality....

Reply 73

adamrules247

They have the best political cartoons by far and their letters page is pretty good, but it's the telegraph all the way for me.

Reply 74

usainlightning

The Sunday version is deifinitely the best Sunday paper. The Ingear section in particular is a very good read. However, it can be a bit boring during the week.