I used to pick up two newspapers every day; the Liverpool Daily Post and a national. Haven't done so since last year. Why bother? Everything's on-line now. It's free, no need to go out to get it.
When I turn the pages I don't knock the coffee cup skedaddle. Oh, I am not mean but I save over £7 a week which amounts to £364 a year. I think I can think of something I can buy with that.

I hope the echo etc don't start charging for the privilidge of viweing online!

You can get the Daily Post for free around town, usually in the mornings.

I read the news online. You can pick and choose what you want to read, it's free and it saves paper.

Not always convenient not to buy one. e.g. when flying somewhere, but most of mine is now done online.

I now read the papers in a completely different way. On subjects that interest me I'll read the same story in several different treatments. I'd find it hard to go back.

I do miss doing the crossword on proper newsprint though. When I do get papers, for a train journey perhaps, that feels like a real luxury.

Paper write crap half the time anyway.

I just read the BBC News website.

You are right Snappel. They are full of junk half the time.

I don't read any papers at all. Certainly not dailys or Sunday rubbish.

Although I will glance at the Echo just to keep up with local issues.


I do sometimes read the Echo on-line too.

I used to pick up two newspapers every day; the Liverpool Daily Post and a national. Haven't done so since last year. Why bother? Everything's on-line now. It's free, no need to go out to get it.
When I turn the pages I don't knock the coffee cup skedaddle. Oh, I am not mean but I save over £7 a week which amounts to £364 a year. I think I can think of something I can buy with that.

Hi Michael

I guess I am a bit disgusted with the garish headlines and tabloidism of the Daily Post and Echo. Why don't they smarten up? Here in the U.S., in Baltimore where I reside and Washington, D.C., where I work, there are some good freebie newspapers. I do get the Washington Post most days and the New York Times Friday for the Arts section and Sundays for the Book Review section.

Chris

You are right Snappel. They are full of junk half the time.

I don't read any papers at all. Certainly not dailys or Sunday rubbish.

Although I will glance at the Echo just to keep up with local issues.


I do sometimes read the Echo on-line too.


Any decent non red top can be a very good read. Daily Post is far better than the echo for news and business news.

Ha Ha, Chris my old mate, I think you had better reconsider those two U.S. 'nationals'; "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." Former CIA Director William Colby; (who died suddenly after freak canoe accident) from Bernstein's 1977 Oct. Rolling Stone article

Any decent non red top can be a very good read. Daily Post is far better than the echo for news and business news.

you are probably right.

I don't bother much with any with papers at all.
I only look at the Echo 'cos I'm nosey about what's going on locally.
Quite often seeing people I know in various features.

I hardly buy them now to be honest, usually just at weekends when I'll get the nationals and the echo. It pains me to say it but the Echo has stagnated over the years, the Manchester Evening News has raced ahead in terms of quality. They do a mini version on a freebie which is almost as good as the echo we have to pay for. I will admit, being a tight are, to always picking up a free Daily Post when I have to be in town.

I hardly buy them now to be honest, usually just at weekends when I'll get the nationals and the echo. It pains me to say it but the Echo has stagnated over the years, the Manchester Evening News has raced ahead in terms of quality. They do a mini version on a freebie which is almost as good as the echo we have to pay for. I will admit, being a tight are, to always picking up a free Daily Post when I have to be in town.

This discussion is a bit like the discussion of whether books are passé or whether electronic resources are the coming thing and will surpass books in usefulness. The reality is probably somewhere in between and that both books and electronic media will be the thing of the immediate future.

The near future for print newspapers and magazines is probably going to be similar, that newspapers and magazines will not entirely disappear and electronic media will not entirely supplant them.

I know that, speaking personally, when I travel on the MARC train to Washington, D.C., I don't have a laptop, so I am pleased to read copies of the Baltimore or D.C. Examiner, the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, and New York Times, etc.

While possibly the situation may be radically different a hundred years or so from now, I don't, for the moment, see print media going away or being supplanted by electronic alternatives.

All the best

Chris