Newspapers

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Going to the pub by yourself with a paper is a proper pleasure, especially on a Sunday afternoon.

With a cardigan on, and ordering a pint of Bitter poured into your own tankard they keep behind the bar for you.

 

[COYBL25]

With a cardigan on, and ordering a pint of Bitter poured into your own tankard they keep behind the bar for you.

Lol, you missed out the fact that I have my own seat too x

 

[COYBL25]

Or a sign you`re a proper Billy No Mates!!

Do you have any children mate ?. If the the answer is "no" you won't appreciate the attraction of solitude !

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Lol, you missed out the fact that I have my own seat too x

I'm more of a lock myself in the toilet for an hour to get a bit of peace (with the paper!) man.

 

[carlos21]

I'm more of a lock myself in the toilet for an hour to get a bit of peace (with the paper!) man.

Daily star is the best paper mate,

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Daily star is the best paper mate,

Has it got topless women in Carlos!

 

[carlos21]

Has it got topless women in Carlos!

On page 3 it has mate,

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

On page 3 it has mate,

That's why you read it Carlos?

 

[atrottel]

Newspapers are dead as News communication mechanism, they are now fully reliant on reflecting their readers political bias back at them so they will still buy it out of habit because it justifies their world view. They are little more that vehicles for selling advertising.

Was always the way - content and photos existed to fill the spaces between the property and car ads.

The difference now is that they are spectacularly bad at their new online role. Even the Mail, which is probably the most successful financially, just succeeds through pure numbers brought in by 'sideboobs' being 'flashed'.

(An idle fantasy of mine is to lie in wait outside the Mail sub-editors' houses and create a website invading their privacy and talking about their bodies.)

 

[carlos21]

That's why you read it Carlos?

Oh yes mate send me some page 3 girls please

 

[carlos21]

That's why you read it Carlos?

Only if you are not busy.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Oh yes mate send me some page 3 girls please

Just on my lunch mate, will put some up on your thread later.

 

[carlos21]

Just on my lunch mate, will put some up on your thread later.

Nice one kid.

 

[njligernj]

I think entities like The Guardian (or the New York Times) will always exist as they are capable of genuinely good journalism (also capable of utter tripe but some of that is a natural result of having to spit out a daily paper's insanely high word count). Picking up the Sunday or Weekly versions of these isn't really the same thing as being a regular newspaper reader.

Aside from those types of exceptions they are worse than worthless because they have a negative impact on society. If you aren't mocking any of your mates who read the paper then you need to start because they are doing themselves more harm than good.

 

[magicjuan]

One exercise I would recommend a teenager do (and older if they fancy it) is to buy 4-5 newspapers a day for a week as an exercise. Something like the Mail, S*n, Express, Guardian and Telegraph

Read them all, spot the cut and pasted stories that are the same across them, look at the facts some choose to leave out and the subtle editorial added in with no basis in fact or relevance to the story. Work out who the papers are being aimed at and how the stories are being altered to reflect the views of the target audience.

Once you've done that you should have an excellent grasp of bias in the media, be able to quickly spot it in other forms of News Delivery (TV/Interwebs etc) and will never buy a newspaper again or take any News Reporting at face value.

Or you could just google 'Noam Chomsky' and watch one of his you tube clips