What do you 'pick up'?

[dukesdenver]

MrBen Wrote:

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> - FT Weekend (every week)

Does it still come with 'How To Spend It' magazine? Fascinating and horrible at the same time!

[Huguenot]

GQ? Whoopsy ;-)

Subs to The Week, Private Eye and Focus. Regularly pickup New Scientist, Nat Geo. Occasionally Time and Newsweek.

I don't see the point of printed newspapers, so haven't touched them in years. They need to set up some sort of micro-payment credit system so they can pay the journalists - maybe 0.1p a page (about what they get from papers after paying for newsprint).

Maybe that's what we should do? Someone want to join me launching an online payment system for the press? That'd f*ck Google News too, which'd make everyone happy: carpet-baggers.

Online it's the BBC, Grauniad and EDF many times a day, occasional forays into The Daily Mash and The Onion. Occasional use of Facebook and Linked-in, mainly for work.

Very little else.

[mockney piers]

Private Eye, unquestionably the best paper, plus the daily mash.

For daily news I'll get the independent, better now it's toned down it's bloody preaching somewhat.

If I see a Telegraph lying around I will read Henry Winter, best sports journalist. James Lawton is also very good but by god he moans!

[mockney piers]

ooh, good cross post!

[MrBen]

dukesdenver Wrote:

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> Does it still come with 'How To Spend It'

> magazine? Fascinating and horrible at the same

> time!

Unexplicably it still does. What... you mean that diamond encrusted luggage is not your thing??

But it does a great Entrepreneur section that keeps small business owners up to speed, there's a small biz agony aunt and Merryn Somerset-Webbs articles cut through the usual bullshit and are informed, well researched and bring some common sense to the table. Recent one on the housing market especially good.

[Moos]

If I buy a paper, which is unusual for me, it'll be the Times (with associated Murdoch guilt) or the Independent. Independent is especially good at the weekend. I really don't like the Guardian style much, and the Telegraph is dull. That's the trouble with any paper, if you keep reading it you start to re-read articles and views that you saw months before and the tone starts to get same-y. Agree with Mr. Ben re: telling one's liberal friends about not reading the Guardian - it's akin to saying you don't like reading. I get a shocked look and then an expression of pity.

I like the Economist and rather shamefully regularly read the Week, which helps me keep on top of the news even in times when I haven't got time to read any other printed news, erk. Oh yes, and InStyle..

Online I like the BBC, and sometimes the daily mash. I used to read the Onion but got bored of it.

[Cassius]

Sunday Times - I don't really go online at weekends. During the week The Times, Guardian and Independent online during lunch. The freebies when they have film reviews on Thursday and Friday - but only rejected ones on the train which I can then liberate to a recycling bin afterwards.

[????]

The Guardian's a new labour rag

[Tony.London Suburbs]

You Tube: "Sunday Observer-East End Thug" is a belter if you like that kind of Arnie Iannucci humour which j'adore.

EET knocks on the door of a female stranger and enquires which paper she reads.....

"I TAKE the Observer" she replies...

"I don't care which fec++ng paper you TAKE Darling, which one do you read??"

He barges in and interrogates her of which parts of The Observer she has/has not read....hilarious....ends with him threatening to get "Nutters from Parkhurst to track her down with meat cleavers, while she is hiding with The Yettis up The Everest":))

[Jah Lush]

From "Yes Prime Minister":

Jim Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers:

* The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;

* The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;

* The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;

* The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;

* The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;

* The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;

* And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read the Sun?

Bernard Woolley: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

[snorky]

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> The Guardian's a new labour rag

I can cope with a bias in papers, thats not a problems for me.

Its the jewel encrusted literary turd at the top of the Tony parsons & Julie Myerson shit heap. Awful handwringing, simpering, unoriginal, reactionary cod left poop sheet for the smug earnest pushy fuckers who make my every living minute seem like a lifetime in the burning heat of my own bespoke agnostic hell

The saturday issue has extremes - It has the Guide, an pocket sized handy entertainment guide that I find both original & invaluable. It also has the magazine - which each week seems to be a shopwcase for the winners of the most numbingly dull yet most annoying columnists of the year - it makes the ES magazine seem like a fuckin' seminal agitptop revolutionary tome

[SimonM]

Butbutbut.....The Guardian has "Doonesbury!!!

[Keef]

Ha ha Jah, I love Yes Minister / Primeminister! Great quote!