Do you read a daily newspaper ?

Only online these days, I'm afraid. I read the Times on the beautiful iPad edition. Might consider the old-fashioned version if anyone in our neck of the woods offered delivery, but that seems to be a thing of the past.

I read papers online: The Australian (our only national daily), the Queensland Times (our utterly hopeless local rag) and then overseas papers: The Mail (for a laugh), BBC, The Guardian, and the New York Times. If anything big happens, I go to the relevant country's newspapers: I can read French and German so this expands my search base.

I don't trust much of what I read, but checking around helps. My eldest son is a high school teacher, teaching English and History, and he takes every opportunity to teach the children, ages 15-18, to deconstruct the news, to see what is bovine excrement is being peddled, and to work out what the truth might be.

Oh gawd - reading this has made me realise I'm a news junkie. Ever since the Twin Towers, first thing every morning I have to check that the world, well my world anyway, is safe.

I read the Guardian and Independent on line and try to do the crosswords. I buy the Independent on Saturdays and the Observer on Sundays. If I do buy a daily, it's the I which is a great innovation on the part of the Independent.

Daily and Sunday Telegraph. I read out bits to my DH, which irritates him, I think. Yes lots of it really gets up my nose but it does get my brain in gear every day. He does the crossword and we often copy out the Sudoku and race each other to finish it. The features pages are usually interesting and disagreeing with some of the columnists keeps the blood circulating round the old arteries. Sadly I also enjoy the Letters page. Very eccentric at times. Many years ago the Guardian was my choice but to be honest it's a bit on the worthy side and also a bit dull. I might not agree with much that's in the Telegraph politically, but it's a good read and keeps me engaged for a good hour each day. And Saturday's telegraph is brilliant for weightlifting if you can get one in each hand.

We read the Independent and Daily Mail. Observer and Mail at weekends, plus local papers. My DH believes you should always read one paper whose politics you disagree with so you know what other people think.

I find news on TV, Radio and internet is very sketchy just headlines and a few details, you need a paper to get the full coverage and the discussion and analysis and when browsing a paper you end up reading articles and news items you wouldnt bother to read if they were just a headline on a screen( well I wouldnt). I know you can find commentary and discussion online but you have to look and click for it. A newspaper just puts it all in front of you without any effort. I like my news the lazy way!

I hardly ever read a newspaper these days. DH reads them and tells me if there is anything interesting. The rest of the news I get from TV, Radio and the internet.

How did that happen, or not happen as the case may be

What happened to th Smileys?

Yes, we have the Daily Telegraph during the week and the Sunday Times on Sundays! Good Crossword in the Telegraph and altho DH says the Sunday Times is a ' bigger pile of rubbish each week' we still manage to read it!. A pleasure to browse through the paper over breakfast! [Sceptical]

We are about to give up our daily newspaper. We read the Daily Telegraph for years and then switched to the Times, which I like but DH does not so back to the Telegraph at present - its journalistic standards can, I think, be relied upon. But now we are fed up with both of them and can't settle on an alternative so probably won't bother when our present subscription expires. I agree with Sylvia2036 - they do send your blood pressure soaring but then I find most other things in life tend to have the same effect these days!

I stopped buying papers because I felt that everything I read in them made my blood pressure go up so I now only skim them on the net, usually The Times and Daily Telegraph. Have to pay for The Times on the net but it's worth it for the crosswords and puzzles. Always buy the local paper, although really the "news" in it is laughable most of the time.

NO. There are lies, damned lies and the media to rephrase a well known saying. Having had first hand experience of just exactly how the news is 'created' and spun I give very little credence to the veracity of anything the media puts out. Having said that, I do skim the web editions and if I buy a paper (to read on the train and do the puzzles etc.) it's the i or the Independent.

The Guardian and The Times during the week and The Observer and The Sunday Times on Sundays – not always both all the way through, depending on time available.

Yes..read The Times every morning and OH reads The Daily Mail over coffee and toast. A lovely way to start the day.
How differently the 2 papers report on the same story often causes amusement.

I tend to go to the opinions and letters sections of the Independent and the Guardian (less so; I was brought up on this paper but it doesn't seem as good now) online. I'd read the Times online too if it was free!