More superior than Standard. (The Evening Standard)

Name: burgess

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Product:	The Evening Standard
Date:	15/02/01 (444 review reads)
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Advantages: Intelligible without being patronising

Disadvantages: Not such good fun if you don't live in or around London.

I'm not a great one for buying newspapers. I use to get a tabloid every day and read the scandal and funnies. Then one day last November I was dismissed from my job. That was a bit of a fateful day, but not something that needs to be discussed here.

The good thing to come out of that day was I had to set my brain to battlestations to find a new job. Living in London, the most obvious place to look was in The Evening Standard. It proved to me a good move. Admittedly my tale is not over yet and I'm still seeking work, but I am also still buying the Evening Standard. I no longer buy my morning tabloid though.

The difference between a regular daily paper and the Evening Standard is the timescale. Other newspapers come out really early. The Evening Standard comes out at about 10.30am in my local area, with updated editions coming out through the day, so it carries news stories that have been on the radio that day, whereas the other papers can't carry that news until the next day. Whether you get the morning edition or the evening edition, this paper really is more relevant to me. It is also regional to London, which makes it more interesting to me. I never thought I'd ever say that, as when I was staying with friends in Long Beach, California, I complained that the nearest thing to any national news was the L.A. Times and the fact that Sir Alec Guinness died whilst I was there only made a tiny section in the Long Beach papers. Admittedly though, the Evening Standard is a better format than those papers.

The features are well written and intelligent, without making me feel inferior. Obviously I am most interested in the job section of the paper, but I like the entertainment section as well. The change of reading habits has also changed me too.

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