My Newspapers

Due to being bored and not having much to do for a considerable amount of time each and every day, I buy many newspapers.

Daily (National)

The Sun: Yes the most well known tabloid newspaper in Britain, the original, the one everyone buys. The perfect combination of brief readable articles to celebrity gossip as well as the infamous ‘Page 3′ Girl! All of this makes a truly British newspaper? No, it is completely the opposite. The masthead and layout are pleasing to the eye which makes it easier to read.

Daily Express: This is the supposedly more upmarket version of The Sun but is actually a carbon copy, it has the same articles and sometimes the same images! The masthead and design/layout are boring to look at and puts me off reading it but I buy it as a companion prefers it to The Sun.

 

The Daily Telegraph: My favourite National Daily newspaper. Not only is it truly upmarket but provides lengthy article that you can read during the long afternoons while watching Countdown. Not many images but this is a price worth paying so we don’t have to read celebrity rubbish. The layout is hard to follow being a Broadsheet newspaper but Broadsheets are more British than the nasty american Tabloid of the new ‘Belinger’ formats so it is definately worth the inconvienience.

Regional, Daily

West Sussex Gazette: Yes I know I live in Hampshire but as this is a local broadsheet newspaper (a format which we should all be supporting) which covers many parts of the eastern most parts of Hampshire I thought I would give it a go. I also lets me see what people ‘across the border’ are getting up to.

 

The News (or as I still refer to it as – The Portsmouth Evening News): My local daily newspaper. As with all local newspapers across England it is normally full of pets in trouble and old ladies with short white hair scaling down the side of the local council offices. Occasiaonally it has marginally interesting stories such as bus news and building news. It has two editions – The Portsmouth Edition (although the masthead doesn’t mention this) and the Havant and Waterlooville edition. Very colourful which makes it easy to read. Also every thurdays you get a round up of the previous weeks news in a free newspaper called The Journal.

Regional, Weekly

Hampshire Chronicle: Yes the ultimate, the top dog, the superb newspaper. The best stories of the week from all over Hampshire. I only discovered this newspaper while searching Wikipedia, I never realised that the best newspaper in the world was right under my nose all these years! It is an English (my term for Broadsheet) newspaper and has the best combination of Lengthy articles and large images. Although it has some celebrity articles at least they are only related to local celebrities. Proper articles about Post Office closures etc and not Grannies scaling important buildings. Also isn’t that the best masthead you have ever seen? Real News, Real Newspaper, Real Layout, this is the Hampshire Chronicle!