Ask HN: Do you read a newspaper?

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by ratsimihah • 13 years ago

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ikt• 13 years ago

In Australia newspapers are dominated by low grade churnalism, articles mainly consisting of hyper mega adjective overload!, poor research and investigation (choosing to leave it to fact checking websites and media watch to do the real research), a lot of 'newspaper columnists' are really just overpaid bloggers who are bad at their jobs or partisan hacks repeating ad lib what their favourite politician has told them.

So really a newspaper to me is like if you removed all the intelligence from the internet, and left me with a paper based version of the youtube comment section. A vapid, 500 words max, poorly researched, poorly written, waste of time that's not worth the paper it's written on.

michaelstewart• 13 years ago

AFR and the Australian are not bad.

udfalkso• 13 years ago

Not directly, but I read online articles from newspapers when they are linked to from other things that I read regularly (HN, Reddit, FB, RSS Reader, etc.)

patmcc• 13 years ago

Yes, I often read the free local daily - it's short, usually has local+provincial news, and kills time on transit or waiting in restaurants.

ericcumbee• 13 years ago

I browse my local paper and our quasi regional paper (Savannah Morning News) each morning at my coffee shop. I would not use the Atlanta Journal Constitution our "state paper" to house train a puppy.

OafTobark• 13 years ago

Online versions if that count. Not the physical paper.

7402• 13 years ago

Daily: New York Times on paper & online, regional newspaper on paper; a few times per week: Washington Post online.

dmamills• 13 years ago

A quick skim through both local news papers, and then I do their crosswords!

NovemberWest• 13 years ago

Nope. The so-called "news" is generally highly biased towards bad news. It has a negative slant. I think it actively creates problems in the world.

jackweirdy• 13 years ago

The Guardian, roughly every other day. Recently it's been daily though.

fluxon• 13 years ago

US West coast: Usually only free papers for short transit rides. Otherwise I'll occasionally buy a full paper for a long train ride.

mcnees287• 13 years ago

Financial times daily. Local business newspapers are also good: http://www.bcbr.com/

fbnt• 13 years ago

This is like the 3rd time a similar question get posted on HN this week. BTW for mainstream news I use my own app: http://newspo.st

It's a iPhone news aggregator that works in the opposite way of traditional news reading apps. It uses Twitter as a sort of enhanced RSS feed and ranks news stories based on how much they are shared in real-time, laying them down in a newspaper-like format specifically designed for mobile devices.

It's really interesting because it lets you find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and it puts you in a whole different point of view.

The bare bone MVP is currently available in US, UK and Italy. I'll soon release a new version with categorization and custom topics.

termarks• 13 years ago

I read the NY Times, via the Android app. I pay for that, and read other sources from Reddit, HN, Digg, etc.

661016• 13 years ago

Does online version count?

cafard• 13 years ago

Washington Post, NY Times, local free weekly. None front to back.

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