Why I Don't like Newspapers.

This isn't because I don't like news, I just get my news from BBC News or Youtube (and to a lesser extent twitter). No, this is because I don't like the people who read newspapers. This is a very generalised statement but let me explain.

I have only ever been exposed to two newspapers for any prolonged period of time in my life and I've decided that I dislike the kind of people who read those publications.

The first won't take too much explaining, and that's the Daily Mail. It's infamy for being as sensationalist as a tabloid whilst trying to convince everyone it's a serious broadsheet makes it pretty obvious why I dislike it. And the people aren't much better. You know the kind I mean? The kind who are those nationalist and slightly racist professional people living in middle class Britain? Yeah I don't like those guys. I've been reminded about the extremist views those people have by a story I read about a sex education video the NHS released that the Mail has called 'pornographic'. Really? That seems a little over sensitive to me. (and just as some context, the actors in the video are black)

However, though I can see the ignorant and right wing point of view that Mail readers have, the first people to attack them for their view are the other group I dislike. These are Guardian readers.

I've always seen the Guardian, and therefore the people for read it, as the polar opposite to the Mail, but ironically this is exactly why I don't like them. In my experience Guardian readers are that kind of liberal intellectual with opinions on everything. Very self-righteous, upper middle class opinions. My biggest issue with them is because they have these defined opinions coupled with their intellect they never think they're wrong. Ever. This not only means they can quickly become insufferable but it also means they're frustratingly condescending to argue with. It's not all bad though. They're fun because they create this delicious irony in the sense that because they think they're so liberal and enlightened they judge the Mail and it's readers for .....judging people.

So I suppose the main reason I don't like newspaper readers, and this is serious newspapers rather than tabloids, is because they're so opinionated they can rarely ever look at anything subjectively and because they're specific publication panders to these ingrained views the readers will never change how they think.

Though what do I know? I get my current events for Esquire.