Do you have a favourite newspaper? Let's see which organs are most popular with the webcameron community.

Here are my favourites:

Best Newspaper

FINANCIAL TIMES: Always has been, probably always will be. Only the International Herald Tribune comes close.

Best Read

DAILY MAIL: The Mail has been the most effective fighter against New Labour in the last ten years, and I love the way they just love Cherie to bits!

Worst Paper

DAILY MIRROR: From its layout to their servile support of New Labour (Apart from Iraq), the Mirror is a dreadful paper. I only ever read it if someone else has bought the copy. Then I have to go and wash the excess ink from my hands. The paper was awful under Maxwell and these days I think it has become even worse.

Must say I prefer the Daily Telegraph, followed by the Daily Mail. And this includes their Weekend Papers!

The Papers I dislike are The Daily Mirror, The Sun, and News Of The World!

No competition the Telegraph

The Times seems to have as neutral an agenda as is possible under Murdoch. Telegraph as well.

I distrust the agenda's of the Guardian, Independant and Observer.

None of the red tops are at all trustworthy unless she has exposed bosoms.. one can almost bet that their weather forecast is wrong.

Been a Telegraph reader for nearly 15 years. Worst paper for me without a second's hesitation is the Daily Mail, hateful, reactionary right wing nonsense, followed by the rags that are the mirror and the sun. And the Guardian too and its mushy left wing goo. Ok so it appears that I dislike most print media. Times isn't bad, runs the Telegraph a close second imo.

Agamemnon, the reason I like the Mail is precisely because it 'puts the boot in' as one often has to do in political matters. I have agree with you that the Telegraph is good, and thankfully still a broadsheet. During the Falklands war, I collected every issue to monitor the entire campaign. I saved them for a few years but in the end threw them out to make room. Now I wish I had been able to save them as they would have been very interesting to read 25 years on.

From time to time I pick up the Morning Star just to get an idea where the left is at and it amazes me that the paper still regularly talks about 'reclaiming' the Labour party. What planet are they living on? Same goes for the weekly 'Socialist Worker' for decades there seems to have been a consensus in the left-wing press that the Labour party represents the best chance of accomplishing a version of marxism in this country. Such a mentality is rather like a man losing a fiver thats been blown away by the wind and standing in one spot and hoping the wind will blow the fiver back into his hand at some point in the future.

The Guardian, by miles.

Aren't all weather forecasts especially the long term environmental ones?
I agree with your choice of papers though.

I usually read the Independent, and the Times, and the London Evening Standard.
Guilty pleasures are NOTW and Daily Mail for gossip. Fun but silly. :)

While we are on the subject, does anyone remember the current affairs magazine 'Today' from the 1970s?, not to be confused with Eddie Shah's newspaper of the same name. I used to take 'Today' and 'Newsweek' magazines every week. I always liked 'Today's' web-set paper which was quite a rarity back in the 1970s. I was sorry to see it fold.

The Guardian was cringingly pro-Blair back around the 2005 campaign.

All the quality papers are reasonable these days (Guardian, Indie, Telegraph, FT).

But I don't tend to buy papers these days. Quite eco-unfriendly. I read Google News online instead.

I think the Daily Telegraph is the best quality paper, although its political leanings are little to the right of me.
I can't abide sensationalist tabloids, call themselves "news"papers?!

I make up my own mind from the Parliament Channel, and watch the Dictators in Action Live!

I rarely buy newspapers, it was one of the 'luxuries' that got cancelled when I went on Income Support. These days the only one I'm likely to buy is the Times although prior to my income support days I used to read the Express.

When studing Law, we actually had an exercise where we looked at the same story across all the newspapers available for three days. I, more recently, did this test again. Here are the results based on the independance, accuracy, quality, etc. of the reporting. If you wish to see the full lost of what they were rated on I'd be happy to provide them.

In 2002
1. Independant
2. The Times
3. Guardian/Observer
4. The Telegraph
5. Express
6. News of the World
7. The Daily Mail
8. The Mirror
9. The Sun
10. The Star

2006 Results
1. The Guardian/Observer
2. The Times
3. The Independant
4. The Telegraph
5. Express
6. News of the World
7. The Daily Mail
8. The Mirror
9. The Sun
10. The Star

That is interesting. I would like to know how they were rated.
(PS> The Indie is the Independent. Independence too. Sorry, but that's another pet peeve of mine (besides 'at the end of the day')). LoL

"None of the red tops are at all trustworthy unless she has exposed bosoms.. one can almost bet that their weather forecast is wrong."

Not even the breasts are trustworthy, Jonji, they're most likely fake or air-brushed.

Can't believe those who like the Mail, I thought it was just the blue-rinse brigade reading that old rag.

For me, Times or Telegraph, when I occasionally buy a paper.

Oh yes Tim, I realize the Boobs are photo-shopped and the names, sexuality and proclivities listed bear small semblence to the facts... But they provide a few minutes tittilation to thousands and keep Britains obsession with sex on the sleazy side.

Anyway RED TOPS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED

Now as to the report above by Martin.

What were the stories being covered concerning? If it was a straight event with no axe to grind I may accept the findings. But my own observations is that anything remotely controversial or political and the Guardian/Indie/Observer leap to the left and their socialist inspired editors display their colours...

Hey this just might be my natural distrust and cynicism. I accept that on the same story the Telegraph is more likely to be coming from a more conservative perspective and that is what suits my world view.

As I'm not at home I can't list all the criteria at the moment but there were 8 categories. There were three types of stories picked to test the quality. The first was a legal story, the second was a current event and the third was an international story.

I did actually take issue with us reviewing the 'red tops' as I do not believe that they constitute a newspaper. Further, I can remember seeing that the Daily Mail was almost as bad as one of the (and I use this term loosely) 'better' tabloids.

Tha Daily Mail IS a tabloid - although it pretends it's not .(but is still has some good gossip in it! hehe)