I don’t really have any dislike at all of people declaring their choice of paper, or support as you put it, but mention of some newspapers seems to prompt snide remarks rather than discussion of the actual subject.
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It’s true. I try and hide such things from people I don’t know well enough (like this forum). But I go out of my way to read and seek out things that challenge and go against my world view. We are are all susceptible to a sort of self imposed information feedback loop unless we give our brains a balanced diet.
Tribal consumption of information flavoured how you like causes the mind to get sick as surely as an unbalanced diet causes the body to get sick.
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Yes, posting a link to a newspaper with a strong political stance should not be allowed.
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I’ve made some edits. Please could we keep politics out of the thread and off the forum. Thanks.
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That eliminates all the UK national newspapers except for the comic Daily Star. Well done.
That should be in Cod Philosophy
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I’m a programme manager on technology transformations and that is EXACTLY my approach. Red means you need help, not that you have done something wrong (bar the minority set of cases where someone has just not delivered…).
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Until recently I subscribed to The G; sadly I was accumulating too many past editions, I’m still reading papers from 2021.
I largely support the world view espoused but find many aspects irritating. I have now reverted to the Independent, which I read avidly until I worked abroad. However, it’s not the paper it was. Now I read the BBC, and the odd article on line from the G; but it’s not very satisfactory state of affairs.
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Yes, fully agree. We have a Rosetta Stone computer program for Spanish that my daughter left here, and I’m trying to talk my wife into doing it a few times a week to try to learn to speak at least basic Spanish.
The specific reason being, that it would completely throw our thought processes out of the norm and force, or encourage, the use of different parts of our brain or whatever those controls are.
She rebutts with the fact that she has creative hobbies she’s always done and uses her brain during those times.
Neither of us are very good at languages, and I feel the complete change to something we are not of all used to would be very good for us mentally. The Rosetta Stone program does teach you the language in a fun type of way including pictorially, so it’s good for people that do not have a knack for languages.
I would be perfectly happy to just do it on my own, in fact it would be almost preferable. But the key bit to doing it together is to have someone else to practice speaking with once we get to a certain point. Something like Spanish Wednesdays, where the only spoken interaction on Wednesday would be done in Spanish, or maybe just for the afternoon or something.
Tried that. Case comes up in Court next week.
DG…
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It’s just leaks that Thames Water couldn’t be bothered to do anything about…
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I 'm terrible at languages too. I learn a new one and start forgetting the old one. You’re wife might be onto something.
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I feel it’s a stretch to blame them for this one…
Unless you’re trying to run a news organisation.
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You should have stopped before you got to the bridge.
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They don’t call me Fingers DiggyGun for nothing.
DG…
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Perhaps I didn’t phrase that right. We subscribe to the paper, seven days a week, and make an additional supporters payment. So we pay about £75 a month. What I meant is that it’s not behind a paywall, which is a very conscious choice, so that people around the world can view it for free. There is so much fake news out there and the more papers go behind a paywall, such as the Times, the harder it gets to see real news, and not everyone can afford to subscribe. I hope that makes more sense.
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Your monthly payment sounds very generous – much more generous than I am. I subscribe to the NYT at the senior rate of $8 a month.
And for those complaining about the UK national press, I offer this: Support your local and/or regional paper instead. They’re all struggling. They need the help and you’ll get decent journalism from people who care about your community.
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