What do you all read?

[gentlegreen]

none of the above.

 

[brasicritique]

me neither

 

[Fictionist]

From the list above I would have previously chosen the Indy, but in recent months I have found my desire to read a daily newspaper lessen significantly, and a switch (briefly) to the Times did little to reignite my interest. I still read Prospect magazine and Standpoint - which (despite the obvious political slant of the publication) is proving to be quite interesting, but my world weary cynicism appears to have the better of me.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

This:

Is that a real cover? If it is, how can you say you aren't a racist country?

That's like something you'd see in Stormfront.

 

[nino_savatte]

Tut tut.

 

[CyberRose]

I tend to stay away from newspapers as I find it hard to not get mad at what I read inside, either stupid liberal shite or right wing bullshit

They're all as bad as each other!

I tend to get most of my news from the BBC website, which I know people on here think is biassed, but then those from the other end of the political spectrum say it's biassed as well which is good enough for me to view it as unbiased!

 

[CyberRose]

Where's The Morning Star (or none of the above) option?

How could anyone seriously get "news" from the Mornin Star?! I'd rather keep myself informed by Indy Media!!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I read bits of all of them and more. Free at work and all that.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Nobody answered: is that a real cover that sold at newsstands?

 

[holteman]

i read the mirror for day to day "im bored as fuck and need something to look at on the bus so that blonde girl dont think im staring down her top" and of a weekend or when i can be botherd to read it through pick up the gaurdian.. above all there sport coverage is the most accurate in terms of transfer rumours and te like..


only problem is, its so big i cant see over it and down the blonde girls top....

 

[CyberRose]

Nobody answered: is that a real cover that sold at newsstands?

Yes it is a real cover sold at news stands

 

[CharlieAddict]

when i feel guilty - The Guardian or Independent.

otherwise it's The Times.

and when i just want to read sports and bullshit - The Sun.

 

[Das Uberdog]

Is that a real cover? If it is, how can you say you aren't a racist country?

That's like something you'd see in Stormfront.

How is it racist?

 

[Belushi]

Is that a real cover? If it is, how can you say you aren't a racist country?

That's like something you'd see in Stormfront.

It's a real cover, there was a bit of a furore at the time.

 

[subversplat]

I buy MCN every week; fanzines when I come across them, Private Eye every now and then and the Guardian sometimes for some news/Charlie Brooker I read the Sun most days simply because it's left in the pub.

 

[kyser_soze]

What's the kerfuffle over that Eye cover? Fucks sake, it's pretty fucking obvious if you know what was going on, what 'You have my full confidence' means in UK politics etc. The Canuck is just presuming it's racist because it makes a pun on the word 'black'...

Reads? Eye, Grauny, Torygraph occassionally, New Scientist, Prospect (NOT a far right journal before anyone starts waving their hands), less often The Speccy(especially now - it's lost any semblence it had to the Spectator of even a couple of years ago as the Barclay's go the same route as they're taking the Torygraph in) and The New Staggers...

 

[littlebabyjesus]

How is it racist?

That is a picture of Boris Johnson and his deputy Ray Lewis after Lewis had been forced to resign. To Private Eye, Lewis is a BLACK MAN. It is his defining characteristic.

It is assumed that he was only chosen as deputy as a tokenistic gesture. I have no idea whether it was a tokenistic gesture or not. I do know that the Tories had been praising Lewis to the hilt for some time before his appointment for his 'tough love' youth work. The assumption that his appointment was all to do with his race is one made by a bunch of reactionary white types who, when they see a black person, will first and foremost think 'THERE GOES A BLACK PERSON'.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The Canuck is just presuming it's racist because it makes a pun on the word 'black'...

Exactly. See a black person, make a pun on the word black. Snigger fucking snigger.

It's like we're back in the fucking 1970s.

 

[Das Uberdog]

You've missed the point; for most people the fact that Boris appointed a token black guy to office is painfully obvious. This has nothing to do with a Black man's ability to do a job, it's to do with a social reality, and Boris Johnson's dishonesty in trying to give the impression that the Tory Party aren't recruiting 'darkies' left right and centre to improve their image.

If anything, the Private Eye cover is anti-racist, pointing out that despite new social conventions an underlying consciousness of race is still painfully prominent.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You've missed the point; for most people the fact that Boris appointed a token black guy to office is painfully obvious.

Is it? On what do you base this judgement?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

If anything, the Private Eye cover is anti-racist, pointing out that despite new social conventions an underlying consciousness of race is still painfully prominent.

That doesn't work. He was forced to resign because dodgy dealings in his past were made public, not anything to do with his race. It is a 'Black Day for Boris' why exactly? So, it doesn't work and, in any case, I don't credit PE with that amount of sophistication – their covers are sometimes funny, occasionally clever, but usually fairly crude.

At the very least, in order to justify this cover, they would need to have been consistently running stories showing that this appointment was tokenistic and insincere. Can you show me any articles that have evidence that the appointment was tokenistic and insincere? I'm no fan of Johnson – as editor of the Spectator, he has published the vile racist outbursts of Taki, among others – but I don't buy this line.

Ray Lewis had been feted by the Tories for a while now – Ian Duncan Smith was a huge fan – so his appointment did not come from nowhere. You could say that he was brought in because of his work with black kids, but is that necessarily tokenistic? Could the Tories not put the case that Johnson should, in a multiracial city, be bringing in 'community leaders' from different areas? Tokenistic or representative?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yes it is a real cover sold at news stands

Lovely.