Does anybody buy a printed newspaper nowadays.
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Between March and November when I'm on site I buy the local weekly paper, the West Briton, no need to buy anything else as I have a choice of many different papers that people have ordered!
Interestingly, this year on my site the daily mail has outsold everything else ten fold. Not quite sure what to make of that?!
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Between March and November when I'm on site I buy the local weekly paper, the West Briton, no need to buy anything else as I have a choice of many different papers that people have ordered!
Interestingly, this year on my site the daily mail has outsold everything else ten fold. Not quite sure what to make of that?!
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K, you know me, Not only do I not buy a newspaper from the Main Stream Media who are to totally discredited, I wont listen to the garbage the BBC spews out daily. I go to the alternative media where truth is still valued. Thank goodness for the internet. If you allow yourself to be lead by the MSM, you'll end up believing lies.
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'Alternative Media', isn't that a euphemism for 'cults?'
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I buy the Sunday Express every week just to get the General Knowledge Crossword - several years ago they raised the prize to £1000 and made the clues easier, which tells me that the management know that lots of people only buy the paper for the crossword now!
When I am on motor home trips I treat myself to the Daily Express each day to get the crosswords and puzzles to do - and paper to protect the carpets on rainy days!
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The West Briton, our local allegedly, is one of two papers we buy weekly, the other being the Sunday Times. It was once extremely popular, more than your average local paper. However since its ownership is national, all the income seems to have been siphoned off to support failing national titles. Its staff has seen savage reductions, and I do wonder about its future. Doubtless it will struggle on a little longer, but it is hardly worth buying, sadly. The technique adopted to counter the online media seems to be to try to replicate the dross often seen on, e.g. Facebook. It's an old media equivalent with attempts at selfies of students at end of term balls, baby competitions, and other means of alienating its older readers - as if the new media users would ever be seen dead clutching a paper. I omit the word 'news' as there is so little from the journalists' own investigations, and what there is is far too parochial, or simply mildly re-drafted press releases from the local authority,health authority, police authority and so forth. Grrr.
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Facebook and its kindred guff is absolutely no use for lighting the fire in the morning, so real papers will always have a certain demand even if the news is yesteday's.
I do wonder about the so called "News" on some websites when they give a date along with the story which is a few days ago. That is "Olds" to me. Does getting a degree in journalism no longer include knowing the meaning of words?
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If you like GK crosswords the Telegraph on Saturday has a good one and on the last Saturday of the month has an extra jumbo GK with some cryptic clues to add to the mix, no £1000 prizes though , £500 for the jumbo and a pen for the normal Saturday
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"So I had a quick read at the Mail myself and was impressed by their sense of propriety and the evenhandedness of their investigative reporting. I can see why the Daily Mail is the country's most popular newspaper among the intelligent honest British people."
Haha you're having a larf, very funny!
I sometimes read the 'I' in the local garden centre coffee shop and buy the Times now and again but never at weekends - too much bumpf.
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I have bought a newspaper everyday for the last 40 years and continue to do so even though I now live in a fairly remote place. The newspaper deliverer only come to my nearest neighbour ( half a mile away) so I get a walk every morning.
I don't understand people not getting a paper. I believe all media outlets are biased but at least with a news paper you are choosing the direction of the bias.
Guess what paper I get?
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