Tend not to "read" newspapers at all online and must be years, if not more than a decade, since I last physically handed over money for an actual paper.
I use Twitter a lot and do click on newspaper articles if the subject gets my attention but tend to get most of my news from actual tweets as opposed to click throughs. I have long realised the importance of clickbait to the newspaper industry. Most papers have their own political slants and therefore adapt their own version of the story which becomes very tiring when you read an article and you are wondering if any of it is actually true.
Used to trust the BBC but less so now.
I actually get quite disgruntled the fact that good old "honesty" seems to have gone totally out the window with our politicians and press. There is very little integrity left. Politicians can now blatantly lie and the press won't pursue it because the owner of the Title pretty much controls the politicians. They will, of course, pursue someone from the opposite party though.
My sister's mother in law gets the Daily Mail delivered every day. Her and her husband were staunch Labour Socialists until he passed away some years ago. She started getting the DM as she likes the crossword. She lives on her own and gets it delivered every day.
She is now a full on Tory, Brexiteer with racist tendencies and her son 100% puts the blame of that onto her reading The Daily Mail. He has tried discussing specific issues / stories with her and she will only take the DM's version of it.
Scary, but I bet she is not alone in being brainwashed , over a period of time, by the newspaper she reads.
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