Kate

>>>The Telegraph - also gives the sordid details but in a more upmarket way, ok if you can ignore the editorial bias.

The Guardian - read by intelligent people, but comment above about bias also applies here.<<

As long as we remember that ALL the papers have political bias, then everything's fine. We read the papers that match our worldview. Only TV news here has to show no bias.

I know the Guardian is biased. I just happen to agree with it. My father calls it socialist propaganda, but then he reads the Daily Mail, so also thinks immigrants are stealing our jobs, benefits, healthcare and women, and the gay mafia are running the BBC.

annhig

well, i just found this, and had a good laugh.

of course, the paper that one reads oneself is always going to the the one that shows the least bias and best reflects ones own views, from which I think we can guess that flanner doesn't read any papers at all, as he hates everybody.

I used to read the Guardian when I commuted; now I drive to work I get my news from the today programme on Radio 4 so no need or time for newspapers in the week. At the weekend we used to get the Independent but when i found that I was still reading it the following saturday I gave up.

no wonder the printed newspaper is going out of business.

PatrickLondon

Local (I mean, really local) newspapers can often be fascinating. Famously (though I realise you're not likely to be there), the Brighton Argus is well-known for its catchy billboard headlines:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/argusheadlines/

PalenQ

ttt - too bad they had to on orders from Brussels stop wrapping fish and chips in newspapers - I'd ask for page 3 of The Sun to be my wrapper!

janisj

>>I'd ask for page 3 of The Sun to be my wrapper!<<

Don't try to pull one over on us . . . You din't even know it was the Sun . . .

PatrickLondon

Not the Sun for fish and chips: even the most generous page 3 embonpoint wouldn't cover your six-pennorth, being on a tabloid-size page. It used to be much more fun in the News of the World or the People and the usual stories about the naughty vicar and his bubbly, vivacious organist (35), who pulled out all the stops as she (contd. p.13).

socialworker

In Edinburgh, I loved reading The Scotsman over breakfast. (I felt like I was in an Alexander McCall Smith novel. )

PalenQ

Don't try to pull one over on us . . . You din't even know it was the Sun . . .>

Unlike janisj I can mistake my tabloids but was correct in that one - not the Daily Mail as I thought had a bare-breasted bimbo on page 3 but the Sun - well unlike janis I am mortal and make an occasional slip up as we all do - well obviously not all but normal folk do.

by the way din't should be properly spelt didn't! I guess we all make mistakes!

annhig

and now the bimbo is on page 7, not page 3 - or so they tell me!

MaineGG

A funny take on who reads which newspapers in England.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGsco...tailpage#t=54s

bilboburgler

Sun, run by an Australian/American/Neo-Christian/thrice divorced man...
Times, see above
Telegraph, run by two twins from their Atlantic fortress (no really)
Daily Mail, as above but vagually British Lord
Guardian, amusing with the odd bit of good investigation
Independent similar stable as Guardian but with some bizarre beliefs.
It would be good to say that the BBC fits offers a balanced view that tidies up the above mess, but since they brought in the big earners at the top, the news sells the programmes not the facts.

Which leaves Private Eye and me old mate Ian Hislop as the protector of truth!

PatrickLondon

>>Which leaves Private Eye and me old mate Ian Hislop as the protector of truth!<<

As with all print media - <i>a version</i> of the truth. The writing is less than objective, a lot of the time; and not without its own self-righteousness.

bilboburgler

Patrick good to see you cracked my Irony

PalenQ

Well irony is as they say the new sarcasm!