If you could read only one newspaper

[SiriusLiberal]

which one would you read?

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. One kind of newspaper, but not one newspaper.

I would read every weekly in every city. That's where the real scoops lie.

[thinkingwoman]

4. only if the weekly

is independently owned.

If it's owned by the daily next door, it's worthless.

Very few weeklies are independently owned anymore. I own one for 3 more days and then it dies. Why? Because the daily next door started up a worthless weekly to run us out of business by wal-marting us to death.

It works.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Yes. You're right on all counts.

[thinkingwoman]

13. It's really sad

how few independents are left. But I believe that after the great press/media meltdown is complete (hopefully sooner rather than later) that indepedent/locally owned will rise from the ashes.

I may be delusional, however.

Meanwhile, the blogs cometh.

[julialnyc]

2. NYT

I'm a New Yorker, so I like the local stuff too..........but I also love some of their OP/ED writers........couldn't do without Maureen Dowd!

[Darkhawk32]

3. New York Times... hands down. Not for the alleged "liberal" bias. n/t

[Canadian Socialist]

5. What a conundrum!

It's a tossup between the "Toronto Star" and the "Globe & Mail". Although I don't live "down east", I find both to be excellent newspapers. Well, compared to the Sun group and our local broadsheet, the Calgary Herald.

[DadNascar5]

7. Miami Herald

[soup]

9. hi DadNascar5.

:hi: Welcome to DU!

The Miami Herald is on my list, too. The Herald has done some really good in-depth reports, but I check it out mostly for Jim DeFede's and Carl Hiaasen's columns.

Guess if I had to chose only one paper, I'd chose the St. Petersburg Times - only because that's the second tab I open every morning. (DU is the first.) :shrug:

Can't imagine limiting myself to one, though.

[Webster Green]

8. Anderson Valley Advertiser...

A small, radical paper from Northern California.

<snip>
The AVA is a community-based, small-town weekly whose perspective on everything is likely to be at odds with received opinion. You haven't read another paper like it because there isn't one. There are lots of people who think the AVA is the best weekly newspaper in the country.
<snip>

More: http://www.theava.com/

[Eric J in MN]

10. New York Times nt

nt

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. New York Times

[CityZen-X]

12. The Berkeley Barb!

[Cleita]

14. Los Angeles Times.

They still try to maintain journalistic standards, although I don't know for how long because they have been sucked into the mega-corporate media system.