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Dear friends...
I am doing some kind of research... I hope you can help me.
In your opinion, what's the most famous newspaper in Europe that is written in English? and the most worth reading?
Many thanks
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The most famous? Probably THE TIMES
The one most worth reading?
Depends on personal preferences. Mine would be THE GUARDIAN or THE INDEPENDENT.
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News of the World was famous a few days ago. It's apparently no longer worth reading.
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The Christian Science Monitor is amazingly unbiased. I believe it is available world wide.
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Financial Times for non-sensational content
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News of the World
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antonio wrote:News of the World a bit late, mate! the highest circulation would be a tabloid (ie trashy) probably the Sun. Other semi trashy are Express, Mirror, Dsily Mail, Star Other high circulation would be the Daily Record in Scotland. Much lower circulation (one third to ten times less) are the broadsheets or quality newspapers: the Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, Observer. All of these are well written with UK and world news and features and are (within world standards) reasonably unbiased, although politically the telegraph is more conservative and the Guardian less so, but they are not political mouthpieces (no Berlusconi!) - The Murdochs run the Sun and Times as well as the News of The World which has just been sacrificed for hacking the phone of murder victims (no-one cared so much when they were caught hacking celebrities, but this was too much). So those two have been tainted and are not in high esteem right now!
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And I forgot the free newspapers - I do not know how many go out each day but they are very popular. Metro newspaper and London Evening Standard (same source) http://www.metro.co.uk/news/I doubt this is sent abroad because it would not be worth it for a free newspaper, but if you want to see what most people are reading on the way to work, this is it! 
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I always liked the Guardian.
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news of the weird
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Preference: The Guardian
Famous: The Sun, Telegraph, Daily Fail, Mirror, Independent (UK). NYT, Washington Post (US)
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The Guardian is a middle class lefty paper...labour... full of impractical do-gooders and journalists who think they are the voice of the people. The Times is Tory... The Telegraph is my choice, since I always find it to be more independent when it comes to politics. It seems an honest paper which displays less prejudice when dealing with unpopular matters.
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Sorry Perce, but I found the Telegraph extremely biased in many ways, at least during the 70s to 90s. Maybe they've changed.
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You get two chess columns in the Torygraph on Saturday and I can complete their crossword,(a no-no on certain days with the Guardian). In my heady socialist days of distant years I once disgustedly left a Telegraph on a train as I'd bought it by mistake for a Guardian. The Telegraph improved markedly when the Tories were first routed and is still pretty good- nothing like the Express or the truly lamentable Mail The Grauniad is less intensely focused than it used to be on matters menstrual etc and they produce a high quality layout and some very good photography. Can't stand Steve Bell though, Matt's cartoons are much more succinct. Some say that the Financial Times is the least biased newspaper as it would not be in its long term interests to deceive its readres.
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I can certainly agree on the crossword. Telegraph and Sunday Times x-words are much more suitable for my small German brain and short sojourns on the loo than The Grauniad (we must include Private Eye in here somehow!) or Observer ones. Do they still have those excruciatingly difficult ones in the magazine? I must get more up-to-date with that, now that my daughter fell for a Brit.
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Routy... I have been trying to figure you out. Your humour, which is good, is English humour and not at all like German humour. You write like an English person and express your self so. You seem to be cognisant of all the current British newspapers and their mores and yet you are German?
Did you live in England for a long spell? Or do you have English lineage perchance? Come now man 'for ve ave ways of making you talk'
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percivalpecksniff wrote:The Guardian is a middle class lefty paper...labour... full of impractical do-gooders and journalists who think they are the voice of the people. The Times is Tory... The Telegraph is my choice, since I always find it to be more independent when it comes to politics. It seems an honest paper which displays less prejudice when dealing with unpopular matters. Spot on. Also, I enjoy the lively reader comments from both side of the aisle (which can be found in The Telegraph) as I do all of your posts, Sir Percival.
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Financial Times.
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