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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2023 2:37:25 GMT -5
Is £35 a month worth it for a digital subscription to a broadsheet newspaper (UK), which gives you weekday and weekend editions, plus supplements, not to mention subscriber benefits? Asking for a friend.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 29, 2023 11:11:00 GMT -5
Is £35 a month worth it for a digital subscription to a broadsheet newspaper (UK), which gives you weekday and weekend editions, plus supplements, not to mention subscriber benefits? Asking for a friend. I haven't subscribed to a newspaper for 30 years; but, am able to keep up on current events. It would depend on the newspaper; but, personally, I find that the level of journalism in most is pretty poor and most local news reported is trivial. I really only got the paper for the comic strips and reprint books covered that quite well. Now, at Barnes & Noble, I could read news magazines and newspapers on my lunch hour, for free; so, that was a benefit not available to all (though our customers treated us as a library anyway). It depends on the newspaper and what you get out of it.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 29, 2023 11:27:18 GMT -5
Is £35 a month worth it for a digital subscription to a broadsheet newspaper (UK), which gives you weekday and weekend editions, plus supplements, not to mention subscriber benefits? Asking for a friend. Definitely not. Get your news for free and without any heavy-handed editorial political slant somewhere like the BBC app or even just go straight to a primary news source like Reuters. Maybe it's because I'm turning into a jaded old curmudgeon, but I find most British newspapers -- whether they be hate-filled, right-wing reactionary s**t like the Daily Mail or self-righteous, identity-politics obsessed left-wing nonsense like The Guardian -- to be pretty much unreadable these days.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2023 12:46:10 GMT -5
You’ll be happy to know that neither the Daily Mail nor The Guardian were on my list. Nor, for that matter, was the Daily Star, which I think is a lousy paper.
I’ve given up on TV news. I tried GB News recently, but it just seems to be, to use your word, reactionary - and with presenters doing monologues and pontification rather than reporting the news.
I’ve seen a few broadsheet subscriptions offered, one offered 3 months for £25.
What am I looking for? Global news, business news, some analysis (I like to read someone with a good head for numbers picking apart the likes of the Budget, etc). I guess I just want something with some depth, and with analysis that doesn’t give me heavy-handed editorial political slant. Maybe I expect too much and that’s a pipe dream, though. I guess I’d want something that is 90% news, 10% analysis (sensible analysis). With perhaps a good crossword and some chess or something.
I really don’t know much about the broadsheets, though, other than the aforementioned The Guardian.
No rush, anyway.
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Post by impulse on Mar 29, 2023 13:33:24 GMT -5
I generally check aggregators like Reddit and the news app on my phone. I sometimes pull up the websites of a few of the major news orgs here to see what is making headlines.
I can't imagine paying for a newspaper in 2023 personally.
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Post by impulse on Mar 29, 2023 16:59:38 GMT -5
Got a price on my TPBs and hardcovers I can live with. Still lower than I could get selling solo probably, but he bought everything so it was worth it. It’s the guy I consigned my collection with. He’s also going to buy out my unsold floppies he still had at a bulk rate. After this is done my collection will be down from the heights of multiple short and long boxes and a small bookshelf worth of trades to basically 2 or 3 trades, half a dozen floppies in bag and board and a handful in wall frames. So sub 20 units probably?
Crazy to think about.
On the flipside, I can use the proceeds to finally buy a color tablet to use as a digital comics machine, which is where I’ve been wanting to move with it anyway.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 29, 2023 18:31:48 GMT -5
I tried GB News recently, but it just seems to be, to use your word, reactionary - and with presenters doing monologues and pontification rather than reporting the news. Christ, stay well away from GBNews! It's like the British version of Fox News in the U.S. It not only wears its right-wing editorial slant as a badge of honour, but it's also prefectly happy to pedal dangerous disinformation and, in the case of that fruitcake Neil Oliver (the guy from The Coast), outright anti-Semitic and anti-Covid conspiracy theory boll*cks. I'm all for the right-wing having a voice on TV, but GBNews is dangerous nonsense dressed up as respectable news reporting. What am I looking for? Global news, business news, some analysis (I like to read someone with a good head for numbers picking apart the likes of the Budget, etc). I guess I just want something with some depth, and with analysis that doesn’t give me heavy-handed editorial political slant. Have you tried Reuters? The above description sounds like Reuters would be up your street, though in my experience it tends not to cover the UK as thoroughly as the BBC does, because it's a global news agency.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2023 18:41:26 GMT -5
Oh, that experience of trying GB News was more than enough. It was quite surreal, to be honest. Where was the news? Just seemed to be a lot of figures engaged in monologues, judging others, demonising those who were unemployed (one newscaster said 6 months of claiming benefits should be the maximum and then it should be taken off you, so I guess the person unemployed at the start of month seven is screwed!), etc. It seemed a bit of a circus, to be honest. I didn’t really know much about it, I don’t think it launched until a year or so ago. But it’s not one I’ll be revisiting.
Thanks for the Reuters recommendation. I know the name (mainly because someone mentioned that Ian Fleming had worked for them), but I doubt I’ve ever checked out their website.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 29, 2023 18:48:30 GMT -5
Oh, that experience of trying GB News was more than enough. It was quite surreal, to be honest. Where was the news? Just seemed to be a lot of figures engaged in monologues, judging others, demonising those who were unemployed (one newscaster said 6 months of claiming benefits should be the maximum and then it should be taken off you, so I guess the person unemployed at the start of month seven is screwed!), etc. It seemed a bit of a circus, to be honest. I didn’t really know much about it, I don’t think it launched until a year or so ago. But it’s not one I’ll be revisiting. Thanks for the Reuters recommendation. I know the name (mainly because someone mentioned that Ian Fleming had worked for them), but I doubt I’ve ever checked out their website. Well, I could go on about how the right-wing always demonise the unemployed and how the government's own audit found that less than 1% of benefit claims in the UK are fraudulent, but I won't. It's never a good idea to get too into politics in the forum, so I'm gonna duck out of this conversation now. Not because of you driver1980, but just because I don't want to encourage political debate here. Anyway, what about them comic books, eh?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2023 19:04:16 GMT -5
Yes, what about them comic books, eh? A recent discussion about Dredd has me thinking I should buy the first volume of Rogue Trooper at some point…
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Post by impulse on Mar 29, 2023 19:46:35 GMT -5
Well, I could go on about how the right-wing always demonise the unemployed and how the government's own audit found that less than 1% of benefit claims in the UK are fraudulent, but I won't. Wow, I guess it's the same on your side of the pond as it is here! ...good point. Anyone already into digital comics here? Got a tablet you recommend? I'm doing some reading, and it seems like the top contenders are an iPad, Samsung tablet, or Kindle Fire for budget entry. I know I want full-size and not mini, so thinking 10. We're i-device in the household, so a last-gen iPad seems pretty on the money, but I've always been halfway interested in an Android tablet just to learn it. A good bit cheaper, but do I want to mess with learning something new? Cheapest is Kindle Fire, but it doesn't do Marvel Unlimited natively, and I don't want to fart around with sideloading, and I hear there are compatibility issues over time. Any suggestions? It's looking like last gen iPad 10" is on sale in the ballpark of the Samsung so I think I am leaning that way.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 30, 2023 2:05:14 GMT -5
Well, I could go on about how the right-wing always demonise the unemployed and how the government's own audit found that less than 1% of benefit claims in the UK are fraudulent, but I won't. Wow, I guess it's the same on your side of the pond as it is here! ...good point. Anyone already into digital comics here? Got a tablet you recommend? I'm doing some reading, and it seems like the top contenders are an iPad, Samsung tablet, or Kindle Fire for budget entry. I know I want full-size and not mini, so thinking 10. We're i-device in the household, so a last-gen iPad seems pretty on the money, but I've always been halfway interested in an Android tablet just to learn it. A good bit cheaper, but do I want to mess with learning something new? Cheapest is Kindle Fire, but it doesn't do Marvel Unlimited natively, and I don't want to fart around with sideloading, and I hear there are compatibility issues over time. Any suggestions? It's looking like last gen iPad 10" is on sale in the ballpark of the Samsung so I think I am leaning that way. You get what you pay for. I love the iPad. I have a kindle fire it’s pretty good but it won’t take MU without hocus pocus.
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 30, 2023 8:03:58 GMT -5
As a lifelong PC/Windows and Android kind of guy, I have to say that when it comes to standard tablets, iPad is the only Apple device that I care to own. I've used Android pads too, but only on the lower end of the spectrum before getting an iPad. I don't think I'll be switching back. Every time I look at the comparable Android options they just don't seem to stack up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2023 8:07:04 GMT -5
What tartanphantom said. However, if on a budget, could I get Marvel Unlimited on this:
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Post by impulse on Mar 30, 2023 8:14:11 GMT -5
These days the TRS-80 might cost more than an iPad being antique. I'm a Windows guy myself for full computers, but our house is Apple all the way for phones and iPads (minis) for the kids. I haven't loved Android the few times I've used it which have been admittedly few and far between. I tried an Android phone about 10 years ago and hated it so much I returned within two weeks and got another iPhone, but that was a long time ago. Also once upon a time, tinkering with the Fire to MAKE Unlimited work on it would have been half the fun, but I had a lot more free time when that would have been the case. It's hard to argue with 9th gen 10.2" iPad for $269 on sale at Amazon though, so thinking I'll swing it that way.
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