Ask HN: Do you read a newspaper?

In Australia newspapers are dominated by low grade churnalism, articles mainly consisting of hyper mega adjective overload!, poor research and investigation (choosing to leave it to fact checking websites and media watch to do the real research), a lot of 'newspaper columnists' are really just overpaid bloggers who are bad at their jobs or partisan hacks repeating ad lib what their favourite politician has told them.

So really a newspaper to me is like if you removed all the intelligence from the internet, and left me with a paper based version of the youtube comment section. A vapid, 500 words max, poorly researched, poorly written, waste of time that's not worth the paper it's written on.

Yes, I often read the free local daily - it's short, usually has local+provincial news, and kills time on transit or waiting in restaurants.

Online versions if that count. Not the physical paper.

A quick skim through both local news papers, and then I do their crosswords!

The Guardian, roughly every other day. Recently it's been daily though.