My media
Posted on December 4, 2009
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I like reading the weekly My Media column in the Guardian and because it’s unlikely that they’ll be asking me any time in the near future I thought I’d do it myself.
Newspapers On a week day I usually read through my office’s copy of the Scotsman or the Herald, depending on who’s got there before me. The only other paper I ever buy is the Sunday Times and only if I’ve got time on a Sunday, I can’t bring myself to read old newspapers even if it’s yesterdays.
Online BBC is where I get the vast majority of my news from and I can rarely fault them. If I’m looking for tech news then I tend to go somewhere like TechRadar. Apart from that my top 3 most visited sites are probably LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook but I’d be lying if I said I never went to the Daily Mail website to catch up on the world of celebrity gossip…
Magazines I love getting a magazine but I always feel that there’s less content and more adverts than there used to be. Each month I get DigitalCamera, Wired and Management Today (which I get sent free for some reason).
TV Embarrasingly, there are few soaps around that I don’t know the current storylines in but I’m not chained to them so it really all depends what I’ve got on. The only news I watch is the first 10 minutes or so of the Channel 4 7pm news but I also have BBC’s Question Time and Click on series link to give me my quota of current affairs. Apart from that it’s a complete mix of comedy (Gavin & Stacey), Sport (anything but cricket) and quiz shows (QI).
Radio I used to be all about Radio 1 but I must be getting old because I now flick between TalkSport, BBC Radio Scotland and Radio Five Live. Also try and catch some of the business shows on BBC iPlayer when I remember and have the time.
Books I read a lot but I often need to force myself to stop re-reading the same books again and again. I’ll read anything by P.G. Wodehouse but aside from fiction I enjoy business books, especially auto/biographies.
Music I sometimes feel my music tastes are stuck in the 60s/70s as I’ll listen to anything by the Beatles, the Doors or the later Pink Floyd stuff. Apart from that I’m quite eclectic in my tastes and just know what I like and what I don’t.
Film I enjoy watching films especially at the cinema where I think even an average film feels good. The choice of film is usually a compromise between me and my wife so it can often be pretty varied from gangster to rom-com.
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