Hi we're Joel and Leah and today's video is all about British newspapers. So I don't know if any of you guys read British newspapers, I don't know if you're from the UK, well some of you are, but we're just going to do a little overview of the papers that you can find here, their political stance and what newspapers we read. Yeah, yeah, and just how online's competing with newspapers nowadays.
Yeah, we actually had a comment about this from one of our viewers called Maria Jose Reyes. Yeah. Anyway, Maria, thanks for your idea. I don't think anyone else has commented this so when we saw it we were like like oh my gosh that's such an obvious video to do yeah we wouldn't think of doing so her question her comment was I'd love to know more about papers what are the popular ones yeah so we've written down a list of the papers that you would find inside a newsagents yeah and the most popular newspapers in the UK so should we kick it off yes kick it off so in total there are 12 national newspapers in the UK so we're only talking about the national newspapers of course there are so many local ones there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds if not thousands, of papers.
Of local papers, yeah. Love a good local paper, I do. Love a good local paper. But this one is, this video is all about national newspapers.
Okay, so the most popular newspaper that I would say all over is the Daily Mail. Daily Mail. I think that is probably the most popular paper in the UK.
And although it is probably one of the worst things on the internet and in real life, it has such a huge audience. So the Daily Mail is famous. for gossip and also just for like making stuff up it's just no one really knows where he gets his sources from but it's just often skewed and people you often hear celebrities say like the dm it's referred to as the dm daily mail and said this but it's not true yeah but ironically it's not seen as trashy as the other tabloids so like the sun the sun is a gross paper that you used to have page three so it used to have topless women on page three which was just i mean some people have different views on whether it was like very feminist to be like yeah here are my boobs but i think most people agree that that was doing women a bad service yeah page three is died in rip page three but loads of people campaigned against it and it's gone now luckily but that paper they're called the red tops because they all have like red with right writing so the sun the mirror the star the star um yeah The Express. Those ones. The Star, The Express.
All. Yeah. All terrible and trashy.
So the Daily Mail isn't as trashy as that. They do cover real news items that those ones don't. But they just, yeah. They put, they're very sort of right wing. Yeah.
So they have a very skewed newspaper. So if you're right wing, like, perfect paper for you. But if you're not, like, I tend to think a newspaper shouldn't really have any political affiliation. It's really hard for them not to. Yeah.
They just end up. It's difficult. And even if they don't. their viewers choose it for them they go oh we find that most of our viewers are this yeah most of our viewers live in london and they do this and they're in creative industries therefore that newspaper has become left yeah so it's like it's really hard it's of course but then also i think lots of them they're funding the people that own them yeah it's their political affiliation absolutely they have mates that are in the government and they're like oh i want to get my friend in in power there yeah it's all corrupt it's all very corrupt but um Moving on, so yeah, we've mentioned the Daily Mail, we've mentioned the Red Tops, and these all come under the sort of heading of tabloids, and then you've got broadsheets.
So broadsheets are newspapers that actually were once much bigger. Impractical to use. Impractical to use. Why would you have a massive paper?
Yeah, really funny. Oh, they're great for posture. Yeah, great for posture. Because you have to open out your back. That's great, isn't it?
Yeah. And newspapers that fall under the category... of broadsheets which are now a lot smaller yeah they're all normal size now like I don't know what that is but or just they online and people pay for subscriptions for them now these sorts of newspapers are the Guardian the Observer the Independent the Times yeah the Telegraph they're all broadsheets even though they're not anymore but that's what we call them and they tend to be sort of newspapers for people who like news and they they're a bit more serious so for example I wouldn't read the Daily Telegraph or the Times.
It's a bit too wordy. Yeah. Yeah, whereas I would read something like The Guardian.
I think The Guardian is... I think it's written for an audience like us. Yeah, it's creative, arty, like... It's not all arty news.
It's sort of global news, but there's a lot of cultural spin on those sorts of things. Lots of opinion pieces, which I like. Yeah, and it's also worth mentioning that although most news... Newspapers do take into consideration world news. Obviously their focus is British news in the UK.
I think it's very rare that we hear about worldly events unless they're tragic, unless a British person has been involved or has died somewhere else in some sort of major event. Because often you'll hear about something and then you'll go on Twitter and then people say, Oh, oh meanwhile in insert country here yeah and then then you know people go mental and you go oh god you know what it's not that we're deluded and we don't know that things are going on on the other side of the world it's just that our newspapers just choose not to give us that information on the front page or like they didn't put that in our face yeah and neither does like the news on tv unless it's tragic yeah so in terms of political affiliation with uh the broadsheets if you are sort of right leaning then you would want the telegram or the Times. Yeah.
And if you're sort of left wing, centre left wing, then The Guardian might be a nice paper for you. The Independent is very left. Yeah, very left. And another sort of central left wing paper would be The Observer.
And what about prices of these newspapers? So prices, newspapers have always been really cheap. So you've got the tabloids starting at like 35p. Yeah. 35 pence.
So... So if you want to watch our currency video, we'll link that up in the cards. Pens, yeah, so it's cheaper than a pound.
And then you've got sort of broadsheets going up to like, is it 150, 140? Yeah, I think at the weekend they might be like 180 because they often have supplements in there. Oh, nice.
Supplements. Supplements, I love a good weekend supplement. Oh, yeah, like a little cooking thing.
Yeah, or like just a little insert of a magazine edition. Yeah, it's so good. Love that.
And then obviously you've got the free London. papers as well so um every tuesday oh i suppose we are we including magazines in this video newspapers and magazines every day you've got the metro yeah and i believe that's in lots of big cities as well yeah obviously we're calling it a free london paper because we live here but in big cities you'll you'll find the metro and then we've got the evening standard which just comes out at like five four or five pm when you're getting on the tube in the evening so for commuters it's great you've got the metro in the morning the evening standard in the evening and often not often sometimes there are days when there's been a big event in the evening and a big event yeah in the next day so whilst you've been in your office yeah so there's loads going on and they they work like crazy all these papers crazy so if you're a tourist here and you see people giving out newspapers don't be afraid to take one it is free they're not going to like rope you into talking to them yeah they are free newspapers um yeah and same with them time out magazine that's free yeah and that's fantastic there's so much good stuff shortlist magazine they're often giving out and my favorite favourite, The Stylist, on a Tuesday you can get a free copy of The Stylist outside most tube stations, busy places and that's sort of like a women's fashion lifestyle, beauty, just sort of a magazine targeted at women, but men can read it as well. And yeah, all free. I love it. And quite highly regarded as well.
People are just like, don't turn their nose up at The Stylist or Time Out. Oh no, The Stylist, I've got friends that are like really... really want to get their hands on the stylist and when they run out they're devastated because they're like I need the stylist. Yeah. So they are seen quite highly.
Yeah. So in terms of the stereotypes of tabloids and broadsheets and I say stereotype very you know pointedly this is a stereotype but tends to be the working classes are associated more with the tabloids whereas the middle classes are associated more with the broadsheets. Yeah so that's also I guess a little bit reflected in the price since the tabloids are.
a lot cheaper than the broadsheet papers but you know again this is stereotype and you'll often you'll find people read whatever they want to read and people just choose to you know read a bit of everything nowadays it's not like there's a newspaper coming through your door and that's the only information you receive that was once the way things were yeah you know you'd get a newspaper round in the morning and that would be your information and that would be what you know about the world and that being your take and you that's how you absorb information And that is also part of the routine of Brits. I think it's a very British thing that you'd walk to the shops, your local corner shop, and pick up your paper and walk back home. And I just don't think that's a thing in America. Maybe in sort of middle America in a small little village or town. But I think from my experience of being in America, you obviously have to drive everywhere.
So I think maybe it is quite a British thing that my grandad every morning walks to the shops to pick up his newspaper and go home really early in the morning. Really early. And no one lives too far away from a... my corner shop you can always get to A corner shop in like three or four minutes walk.
No matter where you... You can always walk somewhere like five minutes. I think that's what I'd miss about that tradition because now we're moving more online and I think I... You'd miss the corner shops? Well, yeah, like walking to the shops and getting...
Like, not that I'd miss it because I... I've never done it, but it's something that I would like to think when I'm older, just walk to the shops, pick up my paper and go home. People would walk and get their bread, milk, eggs and paper. That would be like the top things that the newsagents would have.
They make sure that they've got the essentials. Well yeah milk used to be from the milkman but that's not anymore either. No.
But it's all going, it's all going. But yeah I think with the internet now and with things like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, there's so many news outlets. Something just happened today in London, we noticed that people had marked themselves as safe online.
Yeah, on Facebook. And we quickly went on Twitter live because they have the live streaming so you can see what's going on. We saw footage of what had happened. Ah.
And isn't that amazing that you can now, we don't have a television. You know, we're not just like, quick, switch the news on. Oh, we're going to have to wait for the newscast. It's just like, in an instant, we go on a website where we know there's going to be a live stream of the event.
We can see video footage of it in five seconds. We've received the information and then we're done and we're out. It's so weird. Whereas back in the day, even without news on telly, they used to have to wait until the next day to read about it in the paper. But within the space of 30 seconds, we've been online, looked at it, seen footage of the explosion, and we're like, oh.
We got our own minds about it and decided that actually it was quite a small explosion and people really did not have to mark themselves as safe. Yeah, they were like, oh, it's so safe from the explosion. We were like, oh my gosh, what's happened? It looks like a little firework going off.
It was literally a bonfire. It was just like, poof, and we were like, come on. Yeah, it was a tiny little thing.
We're probably going to get a bit of backlash for that. But it was, yeah. Are we the only people that think that the marking self as safe thing is sometimes a little bit cringe on Facebook? If there's something major, then yeah.
Yes, mark yourself safe. I mark myself as safe in the London terrorist attack. Because I was in London Bridge when it happened. And you live in London. If you've got family that live anywhere else, they don't know the difference between you being in Camden or being in London Bridge like this.
Yeah. But sometimes it does make me eye roll a little bit when people who live nowhere near have marked themselves as safe. Anyway, well, I digress.
That's a sideline. That's what I digress. But thanks for watching this video. I think that's it. We better shut up because...
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