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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago

Jim Hacker: Don't tell me about the Press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Oh, and Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard Woolley: Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

The Sun

45%

Damn

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With the sun and the Daily Mail being so high this list is rather depressing.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

It's probably way less depressing than the equivalent list from eighteen months ago.

[–] liquidapricity@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

The amount of daily mail here is too high.

[–] ns1@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Anyone else shocked that 19% of people in "senior jobs and leadership positions" read the Daily Star??!!

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A more interesting statistic would be to ask how many people actually read a newspaper.

[–] ns1@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

41% of all adults and 60% of decision makers according to the article. But that includes online newspapers, and the number who actually named their favourite newspaper was far lower.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surprised the economist isn’t on here

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Probably classed as a magazine rather than a newspaper?

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Evening Standard sounds really relaxing.