Which Filipino media sites / blogs do we use?

Mattecube · Jun 4, 2017

Scotschap16 said: ↑

Thanks again chaps - really enjoying your perspectives.

Life was simpler in the old days - one knew where one stood. More parochially I grew up in a household which took the Daily / Sunday Express, the Sunday Times and the (Scottish) Sunday Post.

The broadsheet Express held sway over its rival the Daily Mail (Beaverbrook v Rothermere) and the Sunday Times heavily outsold its more left-leaning Observer (which I took myself in my late teens)

All right wing titles (reflecting my Father's world view) but as a young teenager I was unaware of this - I just enjoyed dipping in and out and particularly enjoyed the ST Magazine and the funnies in the Sunday Post (Oor Wullie and The Broons). The ST also had a great reputation for investigative journalism (eg Thalidomide).

There is a sadness these days that the internet / social media - so fantastic in many ways - is infantilising society - and encouraging a 10 second attention span culture based on memes. Part of the reason for Trump's success was the far right's use of the FB platform to spread its "drain the swamp" message.

I miss the satisfying "thud" as the paperboy forced the Sundays through the letterbox.

Apologies for going off-piste!
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I always enjoyed the Sunday Times colour supplement a very odd but abiding memory were the ads for Volvo Estates with the large bumbers!! The oddity I carry with me

Scotschap16 · Jun 4, 2017

Mattecube said: ↑

I always enjoyed the Sunday Times colour supplement a very odd but abiding memory were the ads for Volvo Estates with the large bumbers!! The oddity I carry with me
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We must be around the same age - I too recall those add. The ST Magazine was also good for its photojournalism - my nascent and rising levels of testosterone always appreciated the spreads on some indigenous people in Africa, Asia or South America!

Methersgate · Jun 4, 2017

My Sunday morning task is to drive my fifteen year old son round his paper round as the Sundays are too much for a bicycle!

Mattecube · Jun 4, 2017

Scotschap16 said: ↑

We must be around the same age - I too recall those add. The ST Magazine was also good for its photojournalism - my nascent and rising levels of testosterone always appreciated the spreads on some indigenous people in Africa, Asia or South America!
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I vividly remember their coverage of the Clay Vs Cooper fight, the Man Utd victory in 68 the world cup of 66, I recall father would take all week to read it the crossword being his pleasure.

Mattecube · Jun 4, 2017

Methersgate said: ↑

My Sunday morning task is to drive my fifteen year old son round his paper round as the Sundays are too much for a bicycle!
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pfft kids today hey back in 69/70 I had a great paper round with a bike not dissimilar to the hovis bike minus the basket

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