newspapers

[mollykins]

Is there any point in them now, seeing as there are so many news channels and some that have bulletins 24 hours a day? Do people only get them for page 3 now?

I supose there are people who read them on the train or bus to work for example, but couldn't they put the news on while getting ready for work, or eating breakfast.

[joggerjayne]

I like the tactile aspect of a neswpaper.

(that means I enjoy holding it and folding it)

Page 3 of my paper (The Guardian) is usually quite dull.

[joggerjayne]

red ...

Daily photo of Sean Connery in a pair of shorts on page 3 ?

Move Victoria Coren's poker column to page 3 ?

Sellotape a £20 note to page 3 ?

[joggerjayne]

Thank you x

[thetruthhurts]

joggerjayne, never had you down as a Guardian reader....

[4getmenot]

I like to read newspapers and there is always little stories that dont reach the news

[rojash]

"Daily photo of Sean Connery in a pair of shorts on page 3 ?"
Hmmm... I suspect that pictures of 80 year old men in their underwear would not do a lot for sales.

[TTG]

I get the Saturday Mail but just look on their website for most other things in the week. I do notice that some stories appear on there and then a day or even two days later, the story will be in the newspaper.

[rov1200]

The problem with TV or radio is that on the whole you only get snippets. They usually tell you what has happened but don't go into the why's and wherefores that only a nespaper article can give. HOW, WHY,WHEN, WHAT and WHO are the traditional questions put by a newspaper reporter and is part of his training. The TV reporter gets swallowed up in his own brevity.

[Aquagility]

I buy a paper for the editorial comment and the correspondence. But of course you need a truly independant paper, like the DT.

[boxtops]

Molly I would be lost without my newspapers. I can't abide watching TV in the morning before work, I don't have time and I don't like GMTV and the like, I am up and about getting everything ready for work, then I am off. I am of the old school who can't read off the screen if there is something I need to digest and understand (and this is the same for work documents too) - I can read headline stories fine but there is nothing like a browse through a proper newspaper. i like doing the crosswords on the way home on the train, marking articles which might interest the family - etc. Nothing beats it. and PS I do like a paper which tells you something informative, it may sound snobby but I wouldn't spend my money on the ones with star pictures or page 3s etc,

[joko]

yeh well while you're at it, may as well close down libraries too eh? after all many of them are made into films, and any other info can be found online...

most people dont sit at their tv or laptop all day ...

[GMH]

One good point with newspapers is that they are better with allowing news to be archived than television and radio news. Someone would have to record nearly every news bulletin that is transmitted for television and radio news in order to be archived properly, and as for Internet news, many web pages that have news on them might not be there in ten years' time, and that would mean printing out all the pages to an extent to archive them.

No, I think that there is a point in having newspapers for the near future.

[GMH]

Further to my previous answer, another good reason why we still have newspapers is that you can go on holiday for a couple of weeks and still read the newspaper - you would have to record a television news programme while you were away to watch that when you came back.

[Aquagility]

I love it when people take me seriously, EDDIES1.