Herald Sun or The Age...?

[always right]

both are pretty pathetic, but HS takes tabloid to a different level.

plus i get a special price for the age with my Melbourne Victory membership, so AGE >> HS

Don't really care which one people prefer...different papers for different needs.

By the way.....you have no idea what a true tabloid newspaper is. daily Tele in Sydney is a tabloid but the London tabloids take the term to another stratosphere.

 

[SergioGeorgini]

Herald-Sun, easily.

For all the people voting for The Age, be honest: if you had a half-hour train ride and you had to buy a paper to read, would you really by The Age over the Herald-Sun for footy?

 

[Bombers 2003]

The Age. Better journalism, simple as that.

But, if I was editor, I would ban Caro from writing about Richmond and Connolly from ever writing about the Bombers again.
They're just a bit too involved and enthusiastic. You get agendas and opinions and obsessions....

They must think we're idiots.

Does connolly still post here?

 

[stacksonthemill]

Who buys that toilet paper called the Age.

Two words ... Samantha Lane

 

[AGRESSION]

So who will have the most comprehensive draft info tomorrow?

Or should i just by both
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Kevin Sheehan's top 30
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Inside Footy
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Burgatron's profile list
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S.E.N.
+
A.F.L. live coverage on the laptop

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Am I a Sad Case ?????

 

[Strawbs]

Herald-Sun, easily.

For all the people voting for The Age, be honest: if you had a half-hour train ride and you had to buy a paper to read, would you really by The Age over the Herald-Sun for footy?

I wouldn't read the HUN if it was free. Pure tabloid crap. Two words for you: MARK ROBINSON. (Although I was shattered when TONY JONES got a gig in The Sunday Age - if ever a bloke was "classic Herald-Sun knob" it's him).

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

The Herald Sun has more content generally, and does more football.
The Age is seen as a class above in reguards to it's content.

Hey!! Take out the photos and garbage and the HS is nothing. The difference in quality is huge!!

Most of the footy guys on the HS are nothing more than reporters not fit to be called journos. Anderson, Poulter, Robbo etc , Sheehan just can't nail the important off the field issues. Just a hack paper.

The Sports liftout in the Age is second to none.

 

[Mervyn Beasley]

Herald-Sun, easily.

For all the people voting for The Age, be honest: if you had a half-hour train ride and you had to buy a paper to read, would you really by The Age over the Herald-Sun for footy?

The Sport section of Age is 'tabloid sized' for easy reading. Pack the rest of the paper for when u get home.

No elbow room to open a paper in peak hour these days anyway

 

[Naughton]

The Age has 30 IQ points over the Hun, in all areas: general news, sport, lifestyle.

Re sport, it has:

Greg Baum, probably one of the best sports journo's in Australia right now.

Martin Flanagan, the best writer on sports in Australia, hands-down. No-one understands the real reasons we love sports, quite like this man.

Caroline Wilson. Yes, despite the fact she has feral Richmond blood coursing through her veins, she writes footy-politics better than anyone.

Emma Quayle, she's become the go-to journo on young football talent.

And Peter Roebuck, sure he's a pompous twit most of the time, but at least he's the only cricket writer who'll call it as he sees it regarding the disgraceful situation in Zim.

The Hun has the odd column from Mike Sheahan, who hasn't broken a story for a decade, and blokes like Robbo who read like they chose journalism as a career mostly because of its perceived drinking culture.

 

[DemonErrol1964 - dees]

Hate to admit it but your right son.

I'm a hun man but the Age journo's are a wee better.

 

[mushda]

The Age easily. The Hun has more to read but most of it is written boringly anyway.

Besides, even if the sport is better, you can't seriously use that rag as a source of news, it's like a text version of Today Tonight/ACA. I feel for all you guys outside Victoria and NSW who only have tabloids to choose from.

 

[Deledinho]

The Age has 300 IQ points over the Hun, in all areas: general news, sport, lifestyle.

Edited for accuracy. I refuse to buy the Herald Scum for the same reason I won't subscribe to F****l, attend Melbourne Storm matches, buy Simpsons DVDs (which sucks because I love the Simpsons) etc. etc. Won't have a bar of the "News"Corp empire. Althoguh I will have a read of it if there's a copy lying around and I feel like getting angry. And not in the moral outrage way they want you to either.

 

[STC]

The Age has 30 IQ points over the Hun, in all areas: general news, sport, lifestyle.

Re sport, it has:

Greg Baum, probably one of the best sports journo's in Australia right now.

Martin Flanagan, the best writer on sports in Australia, hands-down. No-one understands the real reasons we love sports, quite like this man.

Caroline Wilson. Yes, despite the fact she has feral Richmond blood coursing through her veins, she writes footy-politics better than anyone.

Emma Quayle, she's become the go-to journo on young football talent.

And Peter Roebuck, sure he's a pompous twit most of the time, but at least he's the only cricket writer who'll call it as he sees it regarding the disgraceful situation in Zim.

The Hun has the odd column from Mike Sheahan, who hasn't broken a story for a decade, and blokes like Robbo who read like they chose journalism as a career mostly because of its perceived drinking culture.

Summed it up perfectly. I'm loving Greg Baum at the moment!

 

[Black Ball]

You should all think yourselves lucky, here in WA we have two very sub standard rags that employ the worst journo's/footy writers you can imagine.

 

[bludger]

The Sport section of Age is 'tabloid sized' for easy reading. Pack the rest of the paper for when u get home.

No elbow room to open a paper in peak hour these days anyway

Age is just too big, I am sure they would sell more papers if they made it tabloid size.
I won't buy it during the week because of the size, too awkward to handle easily and the quality of the journalism isn't that much greater than The Sun in my opinion. Both have journos you love or loathe, respect or don't respect.

 

[richskee]

HUN for me.

Easier to hold, seeing the AGE resembles the size of a shopping centers blueprints.

HUN sport is un-beatable as well.

 

[Johnson#26]

I get both whenever I can, simply to be completely up-to-date in footy, and in life itself. However, The Age does not seem to make a habit out of making player's personal lives the news (ie: Didak/Shaw, and that 'cartoon' in the Sun on the Tuesday following the night at the Geebung. How can that warrant an entire page within the first 10?).

 

[Play by Numbers]

I would have said The Age, Emma Quales great and the HUN is a conservative rag, but after reading that supposedly humour article today on Cousins I realised they have an ability to go lower than any other lolz.

Sure the HUN sucks and is mostly trash, but The Age slightly pips them when it comes to one off pieces of epic gutter journalism.

 

[STC]

HUN for me.

Easier to hold, seeing the AGE resembles the size of a shopping centers blueprints.

HUN sport is un-beatable as well.

Hun sport is surely written for the ease of 5 year olds. Their journalism is gutter at best, their columnists are terrible writers and their articles are written with as few words as possible. I find it impossible to be interested in any of them, whereas The Age has a host of great writers and reports real news rather than personal life business.

I'll always remember the front page of the Hun after Jimmy Bartel won the Brownlow, instead of focusing on the upcoming Grand Final or even something mildly important (such as politics, health, education etc), they did a full page spread of Bartel's alcoholic father who abandoned Jimmy and his family, saying he wanted to reconcile, coincidentally not long after Jimmy had won football's highest individual award.

Noddy Sheahan even admitted that week that they sought out his father after reading that they were out of touch in an interview in The Age. It was a truly disgusting piece of 'journalism'.

 

[camsmith]

I would have said The Age, Emma Quales great and the HUN is a conservative rag, but after reading that supposedly humour article today on Cousins I realised they have an ability to go lower than any other lolz.

Sure the HUN sucks and is mostly trash, but The Age slightly pips them when it comes to one off pieces of epic gutter journalism.

Yeah, if thats the article I read on the internet yesterday.. shocking.

I think people overrate the content of The Age, the myth that they're some high class paper etc.. When it comes to sport the Herald Sun is clearly the leader in probably all but the A-league and definitely has the better footy coverage.

If we're going to criticise the HUN for being a conservative rag (not sure what that has to do with sport?) surely criticism would also fall on The Age for being a lefty rag, in fact they're far more to the left than the HUN is to the right.

As for the best broadsheet, The Australian is miles ahead.

 

[STC]

Yeah, if thats the article I read on the internet yesterday.. shocking.

I think people overrate the content of The Age, the myth that they're some high class paper etc.. When it comes to sport the Herald Sun is clearly the leader in probably all but the A-league and definitely has the better footy coverage.

If we're going to criticise the HUN for being a conservative rag (not sure what that has to do with sport?) surely criticism would also fall on The Age for being a lefty rag, in fact they're far more to the left than the HUN is to the right.

As for the best broadsheet, The Australian is miles ahead.

I don't criticise them for their political views, if I want decent political coverage I look to the Australian. As far as their supposedly better sport content goes, I disagree completely. More is not better. It is the quality that The Age is miles ahead in. Yes, The Age have their bad articles from time to time, but The Sun has several on a daily basis. I can't read their articles because they've been so dumbed down and their content is poor.

 

[camsmith]

I don't criticise them for their political views, if I want decent political coverage I look to the Australian. As far as their supposedly better sport content goes, I disagree completely. More is not better. It is the quality that The Age is miles ahead in. Yes, The Age have their bad articles from time to time, but The Sun has several on a daily basis. I can't read their articles because they've been so dumbed down and their content is poor.

Fair enough. I dont buy that the quality is that much, if any, better.

But on your point that more isn't always better.. I actually disagree. I'd much rather 5 sub-par articles on Richmond a week than one supposedly good, well-written one anyday (or week )

 

[serpico66]

HUN in paper format.

The Age online.

 

[getthefooty]

There is another side of the Herald Sun that I cant stand. It is so competitive with The Age to the point of ridiculousness, whereas
The Age doesnt give a flying feck.

I can assure you both newspapers compete just as much as each other.

 

[ben.carbonaro]

I read both papers as I believe it's important to obtain a balanced view on things.

When it comes to football coverage, I'd say the Herald Sun though considering they give the VFL super coverage.

As a journalism student, we get told that in order to be a good journalist and a more learned person in general one should read both papers.