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On the subject of your personal choices: why the Telegraph/Observer combination, when both papers have more similar sister publications to cover the other days?

• jgrahamc 13y ago
  It brings some semblance of balance given the different politics of the papers and I prefer the Observer's 'weekend' coverage (e.g. things like their coverage of arts, travel, ...) The Telegraph is pretty conservative and the Observer fairly liberal. The two views are interesting. I don't think I could take The Guardian every day. And given that I also have Le Monde as well that's plenty of centre-left stuff.
  • corin_ 13y ago
    Fair enough - I just don't think I've previously come across breaking down like that over the week, most people I know who want multiple points of view do so on a daily basis. Do you read Le Monde because of its language or would you still read it if it were in English?
    • jgrahamc 13y ago
      I speak French and one of the ways I learnt the language was to read Le Monde. When I moved to France I got a subscription and read at least part of it every day. I still read some of it regularly, but I don't get it every day any more. The downside of Le Monde is that it reports pretty deeply about French politics (which is either your thing or it isn't). One other thing about the Telegraph on a daily basis that's important to some people: the crossword.
• scholia 13y ago
  If you ignore its politics, the Telegraph is a good newspaper, in that it gets high volumes of objective facts into small spaces. (I could prove this a decade or so ago, when I did some comparative research, but I don't think it's changed much since then.) In general, it's better to buy the Sunday Times on a Sunday because the Observer is online whereas the Sunday Times is behind a paywall....