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I think the current government would be worried if many national newspapers went under, as they're the main source of uncritical right wing propaganda, and the newspaper reading generation their main source of electoral support

Ian | 10.01.20 - 7:25 a.m. | #

Ian is spot-on. Always despised TV news going thru "tomorrow's front pages" as if the headlines were fair, factually accurate and worth comment.

Kevin | 10.01.20 - 7:46 a.m. | #

I worked (well, I was unpaid, I was an intern and had just graduated from University)on a side project of The Independent and i paper.

Certainly everyone I was interning with read the paper, but that was obvious--we were already the converted.

Not sure how I feel about keeping i (which was only ever a slimmed down version of The Independent) now that DMGT (Daily Mail owners) own it, although they have promised to keep it editorially impartial.

I tend to read The Guardian online, buying it as a weekend treat every now and again. I would read the others online, in spite of the politics they hold, but they are all behind a paywall or allow only a limited number of articles per month.

Not sure I am keen enough on the thoughts of columnists to convince me to pay, although I noticed about a day or so ago that even The Guardian is asking to sign in on most articles (unless you refresh the page, then it tends to offer the article fully, without having to sign up).

Obviously my parents, and most/all of that generation will keep reading newspapers for ever, and I would hope the people my age who read newspapers will keep reading them.

But the worry, just as with the BBC, and also ITV, Channel 4 and the other channels, is that these newspapers and tv channels, etc, are just not getting my fellow young people (and those younger than me) 'through the door', as it were.

Hopefully we'll see positive change, but the optics are not good.

Jonathan | 10.01.20 - 8:31 a.m. | #

I mourn the loss of excellent local papers in particular. I took the Eastern Daily Press for decades until a couple of years ago, when its declining quality made it unreadable. The website is, as you say, clickbait.

Z | Homepage | 10.01.20 - 9:25 a.m. | #

I agree the quality of the newspapers are not what they used to be but as others have hinted at, it is nice to read a printed copy rather than on a computer screen.

I sometimes receive a copy of one of the national papers (DT/ST) from a family friend and although they are broadsheet in size the contents seem to be a shadow of what these papers once were.

Alex Halpern | 10.01.20 - 9:42 a.m. | #

When I pass by the local library and peruse the extremely thin actual newspapers, it becomes increasingly evident to me how thin the online offerings are as well. For the latter, it takes ages to swipe/scroll through the pure-crap to get to the so-so-crap. As for finding any real news there, forget it. The article you've noted to check up in the print edition (because its behind a paywall online) invariably turns out to be as slight and inconsequential as the other crap.

B | 10.01.20 - 10:37 a.m. | #











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