On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 13:43, MJ Ray wrote: > Dirk: > > Hmm.. I think I'll drop it then. Just wanted tp pluck a decent british > > newspaper, and I'll go for the Guardian now. Thanks a lot! > > Decent British newspaper? Interesting concept -- and it certainly isn't the > London Times. If you really want a British Newspaper, you may find that the > Independent is OK, but really the best of the online UK news services are > Orange's Ananova and the "abusing taxpayers money to compete against > private enterprise" BBCi. Aggregators such as moreover or the free > competitor whose name escapes me are more use for plucking, I find. I don't > grab them regularly, though. > > Unless, of course, someone knows different. > -- > MJR >
The Guardian's free sites are pretty good I find - although it is of course a matter of preference. They have a few different ones available (if you don't have these yet Mr Desrosiers!): http://www.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/ http://football.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/ http://media.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/ http://film.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/ http://politics.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/ http://football.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/ http://sport.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/ The Independent are trying to flog their palm edition for 6.50 a month! I can buy the discounted paper edition from my student union shop for less than that. Ananova was good up until a few days ago when its Avantgo-style content was replaced by pda.ananova.com which seems more suited for live access (i.e. it links to all TV regions rather than the one you choose etc.). BBC news is really good, and I don't personally consider providing an excellent web-based news service an abuse of the license fee :-) Ben
