Does anybody buy a printed newspaper nowadays.

Thanks for your contributions folks. It's been a good thread. 

Cheers..................K

Between March and November when I'm on site I buy the local weekly paper, the West Briton, no need to buy anything else as I have a choice of many different papers that people have ordered!

Interestingly, this year on my site the daily mail has outsold everything else ten fold. Not quite sure what to make of that?!

Between March and November when I'm on site I buy the local weekly paper, the West Briton, no need to buy anything else as I have a choice of many different papers that people have ordered!

Interestingly, this year on my site the daily mail has outsold everything else ten fold. Not quite sure what to make of that?!

Local paper on Friday, Times on Saturday, Sunday Times on ....er, Sunday.

K, you know me, Not only do I not buy a newspaper from the Main Stream Media who are to totally discredited, I wont listen to the garbage the BBC spews out daily. I go to the alternative media where truth is still valued. Thank goodness for the internet. If you allow yourself to be lead by the MSM, you'll end up believing lies. 

Why are the MSM totally discredited, and what is the garbage the BBC spews out daily?

Of course the internet is a fountain of truth

'Alternative Media', isn't that a euphemism for 'cults?'

Buy the express on Friday, mainly for the Scots crossword!

I buy the Sunday Express every week just to get the General Knowledge Crossword - several years ago they raised the prize to £1000 and made the clues easier, which tells me that the management know that lots of people only buy the paper for the crossword now!

When I am on motor home trips I treat myself to the Daily Express each day to get the crosswords and puzzles to do - and paper to protect the carpets on rainy days!

The West Briton, our local allegedly, is one of two papers we buy weekly, the other being the Sunday Times. It was once extremely popular, more than your average local paper. However since its ownership is national, all the income seems to have been siphoned off to support failing national titles. Its staff has seen savage reductions, and I do wonder about its future. Doubtless it will struggle on a little longer, but it is hardly worth buying, sadly. The technique adopted to counter the online media seems to be to try to replicate the dross often seen on, e.g. Facebook. It's an old media equivalent with attempts at selfies of students at end of term balls, baby competitions, and other means of alienating its older readers - as if the new media users would ever be seen dead clutching a paper.  I omit the word 'news' as there is so little from the journalists' own investigations, and what there is is far too parochial, or simply mildly re-drafted press releases from the local authority,health authority, police authority and so forth. Grrr.