Pre-internet I used to enjoy the Sunday Times and HDM/Green Mail for City articles. I now use Sky sport/twitter for breaking news and the telegraph online for browsing articles and I'm still pondering paying to view the Times Online. The HDM will go to a weekly within the year and they've lost their potential online readership due to **** management and the worst newspaper website in the world. Like many Twitter@PJBuckingham is the only thing I read out of Blundells Corner now.
For reasons that escape me, most local rags seem to use the same appalling template for their websites.
I got NME this week for the first time in weeks, I just needed something to do in the airport. I thought it was terrible, like it had been written by an idiot child. I won't be getting it again. I like The Guardian website, I think they write well and it can be funny, but I do wonder if they believe some of the stuff they write. And I read BBC. For me, The Daily Mail, Mirror, Sun etc, are just full of salacious celeb ****e.
The NME is famous for jumping on any old bandwagon, promoting it to death, then completely abandoning it at the first sight of decline for the next one. Remember Nu-Rave? Jesus Christ they used to bang on about that, pretty sure they invented the term just to so they had something new and edgy to promote. That said, they have some good reviewers working for them so its not always a waste. The problem with it becoming free is that it will soon be filled with adverts to make up the shortfall in revenue.
The Guardian has more interesting football articles than the others, also the James Richardson Football Weekly podcast twice a week is excellent, we are often covered in it, maybe less so now we've gone down a league
(1) Guardian App on iPhone (2) BBC News - main website (3) HDM (with ad-blocker in place of course) - only to shake my head at the assorted meffery they print as news I haven't bought a physical copy of any paper or magazine for at least 3 years. Nowhere near as bad as 'The New Wave of New Wave' stuff they used to push endlessly. Heard anything from S*M*A*S*H or Compulsion lately?
This site is excellent for all sorts - except sports. Extensive archives & great search engine. They scour most of the top worldwide English language press & make articles available. Don't need to subscribe. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/aboutus.html Edit: They may have changed archive access - may need to subscribe after all - haven't been on it for a while It appears the search function (google based) picks up the articles published through their site on any searched for subject,
You didn't run to 6+ paragraphs and it was obviously a joke, responding to my joke, so on the basis you have a sense of humour which is unusual on here, it seemed churlish not to respond.
NME is to be free shortly NME has today announced a major brand transformation. As well as a new look NME.COM and new digital products, in September the famous NME weekly magazine will go free, with more than 300k copies distributed nationally through stations, universities and retail partners. A statement to the media confirmed that music is "firmly at the heart of the brand" but there will also be "film, fashion, television, politics, gaming and technology". The statement goes on to say that "NME will dramatically increase its content output and range, with new original as well as curated content appearing across all platforms, including print. Other highlights will include an expansion in live events, more video franchises and greater engagement with users on new social platforms". Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/86702#cGri7fzi2zv24Dpe.99
Agreed. i'm a big Peter Hitchens fan on the politics front. Both DM journalists, that'll annoy a fair few
It annoys me - but only because it's wrong. Hitchens' column is in the Mail on Sunday, not the Daily (although heis column was left out of the MoS a few times pre-election as he was too anti-Cameron).
I agree but his brother's alright. Christopher was one of the best writers of my generation at least. He'd be turning in his grave if he knew what was going on right now despite the fact he predicted it in 2005. RIP, Hitch.
