Blind date. Even though a friend found his long-term partner via the now discontinued Guardian Soulmates section.
I’m also not into culture but force myself to skim it to maintain my street cred… 
I’m also not interested much in cricket, English soccer or English rugby so the sport section gets short shrift.
I live in rural France, I don’t have a lifestyle.
But I shall continue with my subscription for proper news coverage, depressing as it is.
I used to have a digital subscription to the Times, but no longer as I found that over the last 2 years, a lot of the content was being repeated and new articles also seemed to be tending towards clickbaits.
I now read the Guardian through the Readly App - and I’m glad that I’m not paying a specific subscription for the Guardian (Readly subscription covers this) because I think it isn’t worth it for the the few excellent articles amongst mediocre content as others have mentioned.
BBC news and CNN I do think are good and provide a balance, as well as the speed of reporting.
Other outlets I like - France24 and Euronews
Get some Mason jars and put candles in them, and pop some sprigs of lavender in an old white-enamelled tin jug.
Voilà - instant lifestyle. 
As a Mancunian, I resent the fact that they have changed its name. 
Balanced reporting? Not any more!
The Guardian in digital form is read globally by millions, the reading demographic is much younger than 20 years ago which is reflected in some of the content.
All of it !
I too have always read the Guardian and still read it daily but I agree that some sections annoy me. Here’s my list of irritants:
The cartoons (bizarre and definitely not amusing)
Sport
What to Play (no interest in playing video games)
In the Relationships section - ‘This is How we Do it’ ( I don’t care and don’t want to read about your sex life); ‘The Sex Lives of Gen Z’ (see above)
Fashion & Beauty - Given that the paper champions the poor and disadvantaged, the very expensive recomendations are ridiculous.
Fantasy House Hunt - Same reason as above.
They’re brilliant 
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You’re making the same mistake as many others - just because a couple of idotic mistakes, it’s not reflective of the BBC as a whole - I think it’s still one of the best news outlets, though, I admit they need to get rid of some of the editors…
I’m pretty sure now that I won’t watch anything that the tv critics say is brilliant, unmissable etc. The Feast app excellent.
Did I say it was? Just that it is no longer giving objective news all the time.
I think it’s inevitable that any news organisation will get things wrong from time to time - and I don’t think the Beeb was necessarily hugely more accurate in the past. In the Fifties for example, interviews with politicians tended towards the fawningly obsequious, along the lines of “Is there anything you’d care to tell the nation, Prime Minister?”…
I do think however that since the Brexit referendum (and from the start of that campaign onwards) they have been too wedded to the idea of “balance” in reporting on politics - which has led to a disproportionate amount of air time for Nigel Farage, for example. And some of their political interviewers have shown some bias (e.g. Laura Kuenssberg on the right, though her predecessor Nick Robinson could also have been accused of being a bit left wing).
It is very hard to produce truly impartial reporting on a daily basis with tight deadlines - I do think the BBC manages better than most - and at least it lacks the institutional and blatant partisanship that the newspapers exhibit.
Nick Robinson, previously chairman of the Young Conservatives? I’m not sure he’s ever been accused of being left wing.
I think it began in 2003 with the Dr Kelly Iraq WMD related suicide when Mandelson and Blair started attacking the BBC. When the Tories took over the BBC became ever more supine particularly when trying to be ‘balanced’ on climate change.
Have no idea what it’s like now, as stopped following UK broadcast media years ago.
Oh really? I was misinformed then!
Well….I do firmly insist that outdoor shoes be taken off and not worn inside the house. Flipflops or slippers or bare feet ok. Pisses me off so much to see outdoor shoes on furnishings (see the latest 20 something’s article).
I pay a monthly subs so I don’t get click bait and I skip over the depressing stuff and read the food and lifestyle sections and try to do the crosswords.
Every news source will have its bias/preference and it is therefore essential to have at least a couple of different sources to give some sense of objectivity.
I think the BBC has taken the (fallacious) view that they must be balanced, because they are attacked by both sides.
Yep. And then to apply the usual tests.
On this we agree. The coverage given to Farage and fringe groups on the right far outweighs the support they had in the country and, arguably, has put him where he is today. All in the quest to be seen as balanced.