Newspapers and Magazines?

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 21 May 2007

Dear Friends,

It would be fascinating to read what other members here read for news and entertainment.

I sometimes buy the Telegraphs on a Saturday, if I have the time to read it over the weekened. I also enjoy a friend of mine's Guardian at the weekend as well. I get old copies of the Gramophone from time to time from a friend, which I find useful for scanning the releases section. I also will pick up the Farmers Weekly if there is something going on like Foot and Mouth or Bird Flu. I have even bought Private Eye for a laugh now and then. Sometimes I get the Horse and Hound to catch up on things like the Banning Of Hunting Act. Very rarely I buy a classic car rag if there is an interesting article on an old model I am interested in! radio times at Christmas and for the Proms Propectus.

Telgraph/ Guardian/ Gramophone/ Farmers Weekly/ Private Eye/ Horse And Hound/ Radio Times/ Classic Car type mags...

Anyone else prepared to comment. ATB from Fredrik

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Bruce Woodhouse

Guardian/Observer as a daily paper. Had the Independent almost since it was launched but swapped this year, mostly without regret. I have read a paper almost every day since I was a teenager, starting with the parental Telegraph and proceeding steadily to the Left ever since (much to the horror of my parents).

I subscribe to a few magazines, nothing nicer than the hefty package landing on the mat each month!

EVO, consistently the best motoring magazine I think.

Car; which is a bit of a mess at the moment after a big revamp.

Singletrack; slightly quirky and decidedly north-o-centric MTB mag. Great photography.

Bruce

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by fidelio

this may not mean much to you guys, but -- i like the l.a. daily news, shameful gossippy rag. the l.a. times is free at the office, as is the wsj, but it's become basically worthless in recent years. wsj is surprisingly stupid. i took the economist for years but gave it up only bcs. i just don't have time. excellent publ. though (best way to get american news - foreign paper). for around town, there's the l.a. weekly, now owned by the n.y. village voice. not too great - works way too hard at being hipsterish. but has the movie listings. best of all, though, is the world weekly news, for bat boy and sasquatch sightings, and jesus in a piece of toast.

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Mike Hughes

I used to read the Guardian on a Wednesday for the jobs mostly but now I just get Thursdays for the IT pages. My wife gets a Times on a Saturday, which I sometimes peruse (although it always feels like life is too short to spend time with The Times in any form) and Sunday is Observer day.

That aside I get Mojo, Uncut, The Word and HiFi+ as well as anything that catches my eye musically. At Christmas I'll add a Q and an NME for completeness. I also periodically buy Personal Computer World or Computer Weekly.

My wife brings a Manchester Evening News home every night but rarely completes it.

Mike

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Richard S

The single best piece of advice I received at school was to read a quality paper as it would expand my vocabulary and broaden my horizons.

Taken The Guardian/Observer ever since then.

The Word music and more as it says on the cover. Consistently well written and has intoduced music that might have passed me by

A heap of Railway titles including Traction and Model Railway Journal.

Richard

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Rasher

I mainly read books, but I get Uncut every month simply because the subscription renews automatically and I can't be arsed to cancel it. I get passed down Private Eye which I read on the toliet. A buddy of mine would always have a pile of Superbike & Performance Bike mags by the toilet.
I also buy the Radio Times every week, but it never even gets opened.
I only buy a newspaper if I'm ill in bed, which isn't very often - I think the last one had something about a Royal wedding - Charles & Diana I think.

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Staedtler

Have been a big car nut ever since I grew out of reading the Beano and graduated onto Performance Car. After that died I moved onto it’s spiritual successor, Evo, and also get Autocar every week. I went through a phase of getting some classic car magazines but got fed up of the 4 year cycle of articles…
I only get one paper a week the Daily Mail on a Saturday, purely for the excellent TV guide it has, though that has recently changed for the worse…. I get my news updates from the BBC website during the day.

My wife gets the two local papers that I don’t need to read as she can’t keep any of it to herself and ends up telling me everything anyway, it’s like having my own personal reader! Oh and the TES as she’s a teacher.

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by arf005

So, no one admitting to Men Only or Razzle then.....???

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Kevin-W

Because of work I read all the papers (theStar only takes 30 econds, obviously).

At weekends I take the Mirror, Sunday Mirror, NOTW, Indy, Sindy, Observer and Gaurdian, occasionally the MoS or Tele.

I mostly read music mags - NME, Uncut, Mojo, Q, Record Collector, The Wire - although I don't buy any of them obsessively anymore (it just depends who's on the cover). The only mags I buy every issue are The Radio Times and Viz. The former is one of the best-run and best put-together mags in the country: much more than justlistings. The latter, of course, is not as funny as it used to be, but still has the odd moment of genius. Oh, and Press Gazette (the journalist's weekly newspaper) of course.

Also, again coz of work, I read every issue of Campaign, Marketing Week, Marketing, Media Week, Revolution, New Media Age. They're all very dull.

And, of course, arf005, Asian Babes...

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by BigH47

quote:
Taken The Guardian ever since then.

Not looking to improve your spelling then?

We(the household) do not take any newspapers. I used to have Autosport and Racer but have let both subscriptions lapse. Mrs bigh sometimes gets Irish Dancer and we read the RSPB magazine.We both get our respective union papers.

Howard

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Roy T

Guardian, Observer & Financial Times in paper format plus BBC news, slashdot & metafilter on the web.

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Richard S

quote:
Originally posted by BigH47:
quote:
Taken The Guardian ever since then.

Not looking to improve your spelling then?

I very carefully checked all my spellings when posting to this thread!!!

Long live The Grauniad....

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Richard S

quote:
Originally posted by Bruce Woodhouse:

Singletrack; slightly quirky and decidedly north-o-centric MTB mag. Great photography.

Bruce

Bruce. Thanks for the tip; I was intrigued but couldn't find it in WH Smith so ordered a sample copy from their website.

Richard

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Bruce Woodhouse

Richard

Singletrack is produced and written by people who clearly love to ride, and also love the countryside they ride in. Most other MTB mags are just about kit. It seems to be sold in bike shops mostly, I've never seen it in a newsagent.

Hope you enjoy it.

Bruce

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Chillkram

I don't read a newspaper as I don't really get the time, but magazines I read are, New Scientist, Hi-Fi World, Hi-Fi+ and my son's Top Gear.

Also (occasionally these days) Astronomy Now.

Mark

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by u5227470736789439

Dear Mark,

I have a Physicists friend who sometimes gives me his old copies of the New Scientist, though he thinks it has gone downhill! Still pretty high brow for me!

Thanks all for the replies! Anyone else? I am quite interested to read of those who buy unashamedly right-wing titles like the Telegraph and the lower brow examples of the genre!

Kindest regards from Fredrik

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Lark

Hi

I stopped reading newspapers when I discovered the internet (apart from Hols). Was Times or Guardian.

Magazines- Marine World, Q,Practical Photography, and everytime I go into WHSmiths a Golf mag and a MAC mag that has something on the cover that takes my fancy.

Cheers Karl

Posted on: 23 May 2007 by u5227470736789439

Actually I am just as intersted in those who read "lefty" papers as well!

It helps to contextualize the opinions people hold and post here!

ATB from Fredrik

Posted on: 23 May 2007 by Ian G.

Apart from work related stuff , I read New Scientist, Glasgow Herald when I buy a paper (weekends mostly), The Economist when I know I'll have the time to read it, often Private Eye for a train trip.

Interesting a few read 'The Word' for music - must give it a go - but the Music room here is keeping the CDs flowing in nicely without it

Posted on: 23 May 2007 by Chillkram

quote:
Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
I have a Physicists friend who sometimes gives me his old copies of the New Scientist, though he thinks it has gone downhill!

Yes, far too much gossip these days!

Posted on: 23 May 2007 by u5227470736789439

quote:
Originally posted by Ian G.:
Apart from work related stuff , I read New Scientist, Glasgow Herald ...

Interesting a few read 'The Word' for music - must give it a go - but the Music Room here is keeping the CDs flowing in nicely without it .

Dear Ian,

I like this room, but I think the Music Room is the tops! Fredrik

Posted on: 23 May 2007 by u5227470736789439

dear Mark,

If you don't mind me asking, what is your profession? Ian is an accademic, but readers of the New Scientist are a special breed in my experience! A good breed, I hasten to add!!

ATB from Fredrik

Posted on: 23 May 2007 by Ian G.

What I find a bit repetitive about NS is the obsession with 'the latest' speculation about the Cosmology/Theory of Everything etc. Fine if they have something to report, but half explaining every new half baked idea helps no one. Especially when the headlines imply much more is sure than actually is.

Ian

Posted on: 24 May 2007 by Chillkram

quote:
Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
dear Mark,

If you don't mind me asking, what is your profession? Ian is an accademic, but readers of the New Scientist are a special breed in my experience! A good breed, I hasten to add!!

ATB from Fredrik

Dear Fredrik

Actually, I'm certainly not an academic, I work in tool hire as a Regional Director - far from a special breed! I just enjoy reading all the 'half-baked ideas' about cosmology and 'Theories of Everything' etc. As Ian says, it is a little shallow at times, but I like it!

This week's copy has just arrived and I am looking forward to reading about 'magnetic fields driving dark energy', 'life in a collapsing universe' and 'black hole mass revealed by traffic jam'!

Regards

Mark

Posted on: 24 May 2007 by Mick P

Chaps

I am reading Hit em hard, a biography of Jack Spot who was the main gangster in Londons Soho and on the race tracks.

It gives you a good insight into how we lived in the 40's. Everyone bought stuff fallen off a lorry, hence the number of spivs making a good living.

Regards

Mick

Posted on: 24 May 2007 by acad tsunami

Very interesting Mick but I think you have this thread confused with the 'What book are you reading' thread. This thread is about newspapers and magazines. Tell us all what newspapers you like to read old chop.