What do you read while eating your cornflakes?
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What do you read while eating your cornflakes?
Following the recent whole DC guest / Jon Gaunt discussion, I couldn't help but wonder where people's news affinities lay. For your pleasure and entertainment (that would be the Sport, then) I have devised this little poll. If a lot of people want a specific option that's not on here I'll amend the choices, but these are from the meagre selection of major titles in my local Costcutter
You'll note I haven't included their Sunday counterparts. If you only get a paper on a Sunday or read it online please submit the corresponding daily. Similarly, if you don't read the paper with breakfast, use your imagination. You get the gist
You'll note I haven't included their Sunday counterparts. If you only get a paper on a Sunday or read it online please submit the corresponding daily. Similarly, if you don't read the paper with breakfast, use your imagination. You get the gist
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As a former professional newsagent (ooh get him etc.), I approve of this poll.
Going against what I just said though, as it not available in newsagents, can you please add Metro, as many people read it on the bus/train to work.
Going against what I just said though, as it not available in newsagents, can you please add Metro, as many people read it on the bus/train to work.
Actually The Observer is a Sunday paper. It is in place of The Guardian, which does not have a Sunday issue. Also The People is Sunday only, although similar to The Sunday Mirror.Lesley Hines wrote:You'll note I haven't included their Sunday counterparts. If you only get a paper on a Sunday or read it online please submit the corresponding daily. Similarly, if you don't read the paper with breakfast, use your imagination. You get the gist
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Damn. Something else you never mentioned at the finals!Lesley Hines wrote:Your wish is my command
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Just so you know - editing a poll (beyond setting an expiry date and allowing revoting) tends to reset the votes already cast.
If I happen to be in central London, where I can get it for cheaps, I take the Grauniad, otherwise I read BBC News for the most part.
If I happen to be in central London, where I can get it for cheaps, I take the Grauniad, otherwise I read BBC News for the most part.
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I don't usually eat cornflakes.
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There was always going to be one.
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I don't eat cornflakes any more, but when I did there was only one thing I read and that was the cornflake packet.
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I usually read this forum! Is that sad?
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No. Newspapers normally are very biased and follow the viewpoint of whoever is in charge, whereas on here you get a wide variety of different opinions. Also, if you can't get on here at work, breakfast time is as good a time as any.Karen Pearson wrote:I usually read this forum! Is that sad?
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CHARLIE IS AWESOME.Derek Hazell wrote:No. Newspapers normally are very biased and follow the viewpoint of whoever is in charge, whereas on here you get a wide variety of different opinions.
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Two problems here. I always eat Weetabix, not Cornflakes. And if I've got a programme recorded, breakfast time is the time I watch most of the Countdown programmes. On the occasion that I've no handy programme to watch, then I do read my daily paper, and I've voted for the the one I read.
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Similarly for me, except I don't go to work now & hardly ever bother to get a newspaper - certainly not before breakfastDerek Hazell wrote:No. Newspapers normally are very biased and follow the viewpoint of whoever is in charge, whereas on here you get a wide variety of different opinions. Also, if you can't get on here at work, breakfast time is as good a time as any.Karen Pearson wrote:I usually read this forum! Is that sad?
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No daily paper for me but it does take me all week to read The Sunday Times! I'm with you Howard, I can always murder a bowl of Weetabix in the mornings................Howard Somerset wrote: I always eat Weetabix, not Cornflakes.
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BBC News 24 - newspapers take far too long to read!
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Difficult to eat cornflakes and read Metro at the same time on a crowded bus, though. (Unless you eat them dry, from the box)Derek Hazell wrote:As a former professional newsagent (ooh get him etc.), I approve of this poll.
Going against what I just said though, as it not available in newsagents, can you please add Metro, as many people read it on the bus/train to work.
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Lol, good point, which strangely passed me by when I wrote all that!Liam Tiernan wrote:Difficult to eat cornflakes and read Metro at the same time on a crowded bus, though. (Unless you eat them dry, from the box)Derek Hazell wrote:Going against what I just said though, as it not available in newsagents, can you please add Metro, as many people read it on the bus/train to work.
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I voted for the Independent.
(Someone on here mentioned BBC News.I've just started to listen to Today on Radio 4 again- I've dipped in and out of it occasionally, but I'm listening permanently now as it's the one breakfast show here in the NE where you don't have to suffer Joe off X Factor rammed down your throat. Is it sad to like Today?).
(Someone on here mentioned BBC News.I've just started to listen to Today on Radio 4 again- I've dipped in and out of it occasionally, but I'm listening permanently now as it's the one breakfast show here in the NE where you don't have to suffer Joe off X Factor rammed down your throat. Is it sad to like Today?).
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Votes cast, though these days my newspaper-reading is online, since I realised I was browsing the paper (The Independent, which I took for about 20 years) like a website. Reading online also saves me about £400 a year, I guess, which probably gives some unintended evidence in support of Rupert Murdoch's plan to charge for online readers. Discuss.
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Only if people actually pay for it. More likely people who like getting their news for free will just read something else, like BBC News, which will never charge for content.Brian Moore wrote:Reading online also saves me about £400 a year, I guess, which probably gives some unintended evidence in support of Rupert Murdoch's plan to charge for online readers. Discuss.