Wll Mr Murdoch has put me in quite a dilemma now. What newspaper can I buy that will fulfill the three main objectives I have set for newspaper conspumtion?
1. Inform and entertain me.
2. Make me look intelligent when I tell people what I read.
3. Make no contribution to the Murdoch empire.
I used to take The Guardian in my working years mainly for the jobs section but when learned conversations took place I could look right on and politically correct or as my husband observed a Champagne Socialist - more like Cava I thought on a nurses pay.
I graduated to The Times on Sunday after exhaustive research of all the colour supplements revealed a paucity of quality shopping opportunities and fashion advice. Later in my fifties I began to enjoy the gardening, travel and book sections and howling with derision at the Home section where impoverished middle clases bewailed the lack of Georgian rectories in the country for sale under £800K.
Recently approaching the dreaded landmark birthday The Telegraph on Saturday holds my interest for the Weekend, Gardening and Review sections although I still contemptuously read out loud the plight of middle class ladies 'juggling' work and motherhood on salaries in excess of £100K its wonderful to hear that they have left the 'rat race' moved to Cornwall and set up a small but lucrative business selling artisan pin cushions and Peruvian birthing stools whilst having baby number 5.
So this Sunday best beloved strode out on a fine summer morn to garner the best Sunday paper unbesmirched by the dead hand of the Murdoch empire. We tried The Independant- adequate but woefully short on fashion, make up, sex and gardening.
So my objectives remain unfilled as befits a retired NHS Manager- shouldn't I get some sort of promotion for this?
We do at least have prosecco now - for those of us juggling work and motherhood on reasonable but most definitely sub £100k salaries!! :-)
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