Heavyweight reporting? (The Sunday Times)

Member Name: doctordarke2389

Product:	The Sunday Times
Date:	19/08/09 (4 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lots to read

Disadvantages: Part of the Murdoch Empire ... make of that what you will ...

I don't often engage with the Sunday Times (ST), but to provide myself with an objective perspective of the Sundays I occasionally indulge in a perusal. I console myself with the knowledge that there are much, much worse papers out there at the weekend, on which I am highly unlikely to spend my hard - earned.

The ST is in the upper end of the Sunday market, maiing a marked change from the pervasive sex - drugs - and - the - vicar material found in the tabloids. The news is presented in a sober, considered fashion with good writing and incisive analysis in parts. If you want to know what's going on in a world seemingly convulsed by the permanent Global War On Terror and the semi-permanent economic meltdown, then the ST's coverage often rivals that of other established broadsheets.

Like the other publications in its sector of the Sundays market, the ST provides a wealth of supplements for a discerning (mostly) right - wing middle class readership, dealing with weekend breaks in Provence, to latest fashion trends, gardening offers and special offer cavalry twills. All delightfully twee. Sure, this also extends to glossies on music, art, culture (whatever THAT is) literature, and all those other areas so beloved of the scions of Middle England and beyond. Not a Primark offer in sight, too ... Yes it does sport, as well; 'nuff said.

Summary: Apparently the ST IS the Sunday papers - if you believe the hyperbole.