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Reading newspaper reports but not up-to-date? (6,3,5)

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behind the times

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'reports but not up-to-date?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'reading newspaper' is the wordplay.
'reading' becomes 'behind' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'newspaper' becomes 'the times' (I've seen this before).
'behind'+'thetimes'='BEHIND THE TIMES'

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(Other definitions for behind the times that I've seen before include "with paper covering" , "out of touch" , "not being updated?" , "Old hat" , "As was one News Iinternational" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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