Poll: Do you, or anyone in your house, buy a newspaper?

Do you, or anyone in your house, buy a newspaper?

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Here's a little factoid.
I was in our Bargain Booze and looked down at The Sentinel which is our local paper.
I asked the owner if he sold many and he said about 20 a day at 2p profit so it's lucky if he ever makes more than 40p a day on them however it does get 20 people in the shop who may buy other things.
 
robfosters said:
I loved future music back in the 90’s. I was a teenager with little money and used to look longingly at the shiny synths like the JP8000, Prophecy, Trinity, Quasimudi Raven. I actually bought a JP8000 a few years back. I didn’t particularly need it, I just wanted to make a teenage dream come true. I had other teenage dreams but sadly couldn’t afford Denise Van Outen.
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I loved future music and later Computer Music and still love all that stuff and if I had space would have a load more synths that I currently do. I met Denise in 1997 a couple of weeks after she was in FHM, I had just turned 18....but I never owned a JP8000....so guess we are both jealous...
 
Newspapers are scaremongering rubbish to me and ‘bibles’ to the others. What I mean by bibles is that they believe everything in. “I’m telling you this as it’s in the paper” I get these people shop at my work. Most colleagues aren’t interested in Daily Express on legs.
 
MookJong said:
As a child "The Sunday papers" was a thing, as was taking the glass empties back to the paper shop on a sunday morning. Some of the papers had a comic in them for kids and the TV guide was always good to check what was on that week.

Not a chance I would buy one now, I do miss the ritual somewhat.
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Ah yes, the memories of reading Oor Wullie and The Broons on a Sunday.

There's definitely a cultural shift with buying newspapers nowadays.
 
Leicester Mercury is £1 and sometimes in the summer you are likely to get 30 pages.

Now we get customers buying S*n, LM. If they buy S*n every day and LM every Mon-Sat - that’s £11.75 a week!

Newspapers are out of date by the time you get them. Classic example was the day Diana was killed. It was my final day of being a papergirl. Some papers carried on as per day before news and some had 1am Diana in car crash.

Bet hardly any of those papers were read.
 
Who remembers the days they wrapped them in your fish/sausage supper? Sitting near the seaside or in the car near the seaside.

Obviously the grease proof paper was in between the food and paper.
 
byeo said:
Not purchased a paper in years, I don't need to when I've got a smartphone. My grandad on the other hand, walks up to his local paper shop every day, rain or shine to get his papers, he doesn't have a smartphone. Like many others, he's set in his way's and won't change.
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Gets him out of the house and doing a bit of exercise though...
 
I do; although not in paper form but electronically.

I much prefer effectively getting a PDF version of the paper so I can flick through it naturally like I would with a real paper instead of the new way of using an app (Like for The Times, Telegraph or FT); you just miss so much.
 
Might buy one for a train journey or a flight from time to time but that's about it.

I read (at least scroll through if I'm busy) couple of news websites, foreign as well, daily.
 
I get one most weekends, usually on a Saturday but sometimes on a Sunday, rarely both
As someone said above, there can be something of a ritual to it, and I like being able to take my time reading rather than being flashed at with clickbait
I spend enough time on a PC at work and home, without reading the a newspaper at it as well
Also, I don't find reading for a long time on a tablet very enjoyable
I like doing the sodoku and crossword
 
I don't think I've ever bought a paper for myself, was sent to buy them as a kid but even my parents have stopped reading them now. Can't think of anyone I know who buys them either.
 
I don't. I wouldn't mind paying for quality impartial journalism though. All newspapers feel too much like committing to 'picking a side' and I hate that.
 
robfosters said:
Imagine paying £20 a week for the Guardian
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I can't imagine why anyone would do that, premier tier subscription on Google Play costs me £5.99 per month. Less expensive, no waste or printing / transportation costs, much more convenient (always in your pocket), news updated instantly rather than daily.

I haven't bought a newspaper in decades, I'm amazed they're still in business TBH.
 
I've been buying a mix of them since the 80s, as stated in the 2nd of September thread.

I get the following Saturday/Sunday papers - The I (for the quizzes mainly), The Guardian (Left wing view), The Times (Right wing view).
The TV provides the headlines daily. I used to get The Independent for the commute into work and left it on the train every morning for someone else.

I've read many an interesting article, column and piece over the decades that I know I wouldn't have looked at all or even noticed with an online subscription or news feed.
I've always read from more than one source to get a more rounded view in general. Just like books it also feels much more natural to physically hold said item to me. I use my phone for calls, messaging and music/audio books only.
 
V F said:
Who remembers the days they wrapped them in your fish/sausage supper? Sitting near the seaside or in the car near the seaside.

Obviously the grease proof paper was in between the food and paper.
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Hence the saying that is still used "Todays news, tomorrows fish & chip paper"
 
I don't know anyone from my limited group of friends, or in their larger group of workplace friends (20-45yo approx), who buys a a physical paper anymore. The last person I knew bought one everyday on the way into work was 5 years ago and they were 60+.

Now as thats an incredibly small group size you can't really use that to expand out the trend to form a more general opinion so I looked at this - https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/most-popular-newspapers-uk-abc-monthly-circulation-figures/ - and out of 16 national newspapers only 1 (the "i" which is Free) increased in circulation from Aug 2020 to Aug 2021.

However there are several newspapers (Guardian, Observer, The Times and Telegraph) which choose not to publish circulation figures so there could be even more than just 15 national newspapers suffering from declining physical sales in total.
 
I only buy a newspaper if I am on a long journey (train) or know I'll have an hour or so sitting around somewhere.

I last bought one a month or two back, and was amazed at the price.
 
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