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Broadsheets Vs Tabloids
BillieTheBot
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Recently, there's been a lot of discussion on these boards about the roles of tabloids and broadsheets in the context of politics. Some say that broadsheets are only for people who want to read serious political news, whilst tabloids are for those who are more interested in Kylie Minogue's arse and the like. Others say tabloids are a form of escapism, though I'm not totally sure what is meant by this. What do you think? Are the roles of tabloid and broadsheet newspapers different, and if so, how?
Answering my own question, I think the two are different by definition. Broadsheets like The Daily Telegraph for instance do not report the same stories as the Daily Mail, though there does seem to be an increasing overlap between the two, such as "PC gone mad" style stories. Maybe this is driven via falling newspaper sales or market demands, I don't know.
I'd also say readers of tabloids like The Sun clearly won't be interested in the ins and outs of Spanish politics, (hence them virtually ignoring the Yes vote in the Spanish referendum on the EU constitution, for example) and would be more interested in gossip about celebrities. I'm not quite sure what else to say in answer to my own question, so what do you reckon?
Answering my own question, I think the two are different by definition. Broadsheets like The Daily Telegraph for instance do not report the same stories as the Daily Mail, though there does seem to be an increasing overlap between the two, such as "PC gone mad" style stories. Maybe this is driven via falling newspaper sales or market demands, I don't know.
I'd also say readers of tabloids like The Sun clearly won't be interested in the ins and outs of Spanish politics, (hence them virtually ignoring the Yes vote in the Spanish referendum on the EU constitution, for example) and would be more interested in gossip about celebrities. I'm not quite sure what else to say in answer to my own question, so what do you reckon?
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They've done infinitely more harm than good and in most cases are nothing but a cynical manipulation device by individuals with strong (and disturbing) agendas to push.
Waste of good trees, they are.
Or, better still have a Press Complaints Authority which actually had teeth. If you print something which is an obvious lie, or is inflamatory for no good reason you have your days sales taken away from you. Simple.
Some people find that interesting and I've no problem with that. Don't equate the fact that people aren't interested in the nitty-gritty of politics (especially foreign politics) with being stupid
Change them into full gossip/sport papers if we must keep them, a Daily equivalent of Heat talking about nookie, tits, Beckham and footie.
I just can't stand their appalling lies, manipulation, scaremongering, smearing, bullying and sometimes open racism, bigotry and prejudice masquerading as news.
That could be used as quite an effective and true advertising jingle.
When something serious has happened or going to happen (run up to general election) i get myself a broadsheet, much more helpful.
The Sun is a never-ending source of mirth to me. On the one hand it has naked children on it's pages, and stories about how some d-cup, sorry, d-list, celebrity is a "fox" in bed; on the other, it decries paedophilia, and is campaighning against "slack morals" among our society, as if four soldiers having a gang-bang with a waitress and filming it is a truly terrible thing.
I never understand The Sun, it hates children having sex and it hates men who fantasise about having sex with children, but then it shows pictures of children being paid to strip naked.
In fact, forget the fine - they should be forced to publish a retraction and correction on the next day's front page.
Hillsborough.
The Truth.
Enough said.
Never have I seen so much bollocks in my entire life. Newspapers represent the financial and political agendas of their owners, nothing else.
Funnily enough, I don't have a problem with that.
Sounds like an evening in the pub.
Sure, the Sun is crap but if people want to read it they should be free to. To stop people from doing so would be a gross and crude breach of their civil liberties.
It's just when the right-wing tabloids start suggesting that lynching asylum seekers is a good thing that things get ropey.
tabloids have no place in politics:)
One that doesn't publish the headline "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" for example...
Our newspapers are very partisan but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. First of all not all the papers are of the same political persuasion so its spread across the spectrum. Independent, Guardian, Mirror all left leaning and I guess the others more right leaning.
And at the moment we have a weak opposition, the press notably the Daily Mail has been a pretty strong voice of dissent on a few issues. The new licensing laws for example. Don’t agree with a lot of the stuff they print and I wouldn’t buy it but you can’t really take that away from them.
I also don’t think newspapers have the same obligations as TV news on impartiality/neutrality.
Riight. I must have missed that one. You gotta link by any chance? And I was thinking it was just the tabloids that lied and exaggerated... :rolleyes:
Because of that loads of kids didnt get their jabs potentially putting them in serious danger.
What Mok is saying Disillusioned.
My point is, virtually every tabloid in the land (ironically, the Star and the Sport could perhaps be excluded, since they seldom- if at all- have anything to say about current affairs and politics, let alone push any dodgy agendas) are guilty of a million things from deep rooted racism, homophobia and xenophobia to plain lying, misleading, bullying, threatening, smearing and in many cases ruining lives.
For that alone they should be punished severely. So no, I don't have a problem with those hideous rags being closed. They can re-start again after a few months if they want provided they have ceased their hideous agendas and they stick to gossip and nookie.
Except that there was a story, you should read Paul Foot's work on the subject.
Most children are not affected by the MMR jab, but some children have a abonormality in the spinal tissue which causes autism when triggered by the MMR jab. Or so it would seem; unfortunately, nobody will do any clinical testing to see if the link is there or purely coincidence.
Just how many 'mind of Arsene Wenger' stories do they think we want per season. That fact that there are clubs like Exeter, getting screwed over by their chairman and being kept alive by the fans I guess is not newsworthy enough. :yeees:
(Not the fault of Premiership stars because English seems to be a second language for all of them)
Yes the political or journalistic standards of the news stories may be why I buy broadsheets but I do find it annoying having to buy a seperate tabloid on a Sunday just to get some decent football coverage.