Do you still buy the paper?

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Newspapers are suffering in sales due to the emergence of 24 hour news available to us via the internet and news channels. Some say the newspaper industry will continue to slow down until it will no longer be a major market.

So I was wondering? Do of any of you still buy a paper? If so, why?

I do occasionally. Sure I can check the net for stories at any time on the net but it's quite nice to just sit down and have a paper in my hand to read.

I generally read The Independent, just in case you were interested.
 
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I very occasionally read the newspaper, if i'm going on a long journey (over an hour) and have forgotten a book. Otherwise I may buy one every so often at uni when i'm in the union shop 'cause they're all subsidised down to like 20-40p depending.
 
Oh yes.. Papers are still higher resolution than monitors. Until they make ipads with the same pixel density is the Iphone 4 I will always get printed media.

There is nothing I like more than waking up on the weekends mega early getting the paper, putting a bit of Wagner on, on my headphones and slowly absorbing the news. I get the Guardian on Saturday and the Times / Observer on Sunday. Brilliant stuff.
 
nope, used to buy the odd tabloid to read at work but I don't find them interesting enough these days
 
Nope. Used to read the Indy, but haven't bothered getting it delivered since I moved about 3 years ago.

Don't really feel I miss anything that I can't get online.
 
I buy every day;

Sun
Record
Scotsman
Independent
Metro of course

sometimes times/herald/telegraph and other stuff economist, private eye etc. magazines of interest. porn?

:D

& Internet news sites.
 
Yah.. Papers are all I can afford. Until I can steel an ipad or Iphone 4 I will always get printed stuff.

There is nothing I like more than waking up on a weekday mega late getting the paper back from the job center, putting a bit of N-Dubz on, on my headphones and slowly trying to read the news. I get the Sun and/or Mirror. Brilliant stuff.
 
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If i do, I buy the Sun, News of the World, Daily Star or any other paper with bright colours, cringe stories about celebrities, shock stories and generally lots of pictures.

I have no shame.
 
Yes, The Times and Sunday Times. I can read them over breakfast, on a train, in bed, fold the pages, do the crossword, scribble on them and read the bits that aren’t online.
 
I do occasionally grab a paper on my way to work....but don't think I would start paying to access news websites as seems to be there latest idea to recouping there losses.
 
Local rag every week.

Evening Standard when in London - though that's not buy anymore.

Daily Telegraph on saturday.


Whilst at the dentist/doctors I, ahem, read the Daily Mail.
 
occasionally the times during the week, and my partner usually gets the big weekend one for all the crap inside it. waste of paper if you ask me...

Mostly just read the news on the internet or listen on radio 4 though.
 
I used to, and if I'm passing the student shop I nip in and get one that's subsidised. Otherwise unless I want to do the cross word I no longer bother. I spend a few minutes every morning browsing the news online anyway I don't need a paper copy.

Westyfield2 said:
Whilst at the dentist/doctors I, ahem, read the Daily Mail.
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Oddly enough I do this.

Then laugh at what people call journalism these days.
 
People still buy them but less and less ever month apparently! I'm sure where i live is the same as everywhere else in the UK and probably the world so.

BUT newspaper content is meant to somehow be different then the online stuff, not to sure how exactly but it is!
 
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