Tabloids: Love them or Hate Them

PostTabloids: Love them or Hate Them by **Cyburn2** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:37 pm

I am sick of tabloids saying all this crap on how Britain is a criminal paradise, has a knife crime epidemic etc....

Do you agree?

The Sun Lies Blog

I see KKLEIN's voted.

PostRe: Tabloids: Love them or Hate Them by **JNR** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:47 pm

To be honest the gap between tabloids and proper newspapers is shortening. My pet hate these days is bad science reporting in the papers and it seems like nearly everyone is guilty of it, be it the red tops or the broadsheets. Very frustrating because it is misleading the public in sometimes dangerous ways by changing their opinion with a rubbish story written to get the headlines and coins over the counters.

The do have the best sports coverage, though, you gotta give 'em that.

PostRe: Tabloids: Love them or Hate Them by KK » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:58 pm

In The Sun's case, it's a fun, easy going read. Plus the sports coverage in the paper is fantastic. It's damn cheap, too (a paltry 20 to 30p on weekdays). Compare it to something like The Mail - which not only makes stuff up, but is a vile, misery laden paper that brings no joy to the people that read it. The DailyMoan thinks it's above everyone else, yet is just as interested in the weight of Fern Britton as all the other women's magazines & tabloids it & its readers claim to hate so much.

If you want stone cold fact, you probably shouldn't be reading a paper anyway.

Few newspapers are actually good, tabloid or otherwise.

Evening Times, the heart and soul of Glas-gow!

Only for entertainment value. If I want a proper read I'll pick up The Guardian.

JNR wrote:To be honest the gap between tabloids and proper newspapers is shortening. My pet hate these days is bad science reporting in the papers and it seems like nearly everyone is guilty of it, be it the red tops or the broadsheets. Very frustrating because it is misleading the public in sometimes dangerous ways by changing their opinion with a rubbish story written to get the headlines and coins over the counters.

true and not because the tabloids are catching up.....

chalkitdown wrote:The do have the best sports coverage, though, you gotta give 'em that.

The daily telegraph has always had the best sports coverage by far - tabloids aren't even on a par - not going to buy the right wing rag though !

PostRe: Tabloids: Love them or Hate Them by **Igor** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:28 pm

I usually read The Sun, simply to pass the time. The best bit is Dear Deirdre, which probably indicates its general quality. Rarely should anything they write be taken seriously, especially if it has anything to do with: the Iraq war, Muslims, the current economic situation, peadophiles, The European Union, human rights, American politics, parenting, knife culture, youths in general, foreign affairs of any kind, and the BBC.

Page 3 ain't 'alf bad, as well.

closer wrote:The daily telegraph

We don't get that here.

Charles Manson wrote:Only for entertainment value. If I want a proper read I'll pick up The Guardian.

Are you sure ???

The Daily Mail supported the nazis.

Memento Mori wrote:The Daily Mail supported the nazis.

There really are much better reasons to hate The Daily Mail than a policy they had seventy years ago.

Cuttooth wrote:
Memento Mori wrote:The Daily Mail supported the nazis.

There really are much better reasons to hate The Daily Mail than a policy they had seventy years ago.

You think they don't still have that policy?

The sport (football) coverage in the tabloids is shocking.

Match report:

AWFUL PUN!

SCORELINE

Transfer speculation involving a player involved in said game
Quote from "pal" of player or "club source"
More transfer speculation

Word plucked at random from next paragraph

Rumours of half-time bust-up in losing team's dressing room
More transfer speculation

Goalscorers and time of goals

I read the sun every now and again to see how they think we are so strawberry floated up!

closer wrote:
Charles Manson wrote:Only for entertainment value. If I want a proper read I'll pick up The Guardian.

Are you sure ???

It has its bias but at least it's not a populist rag and sticks to its guns. Considering I don't hold much interest in politics, I prefer the topics The Guardian chooses to report otherwise. It's better written (amusing spelling mistakes aside), has some good supplements (Observer Music Monthly, their music/film stuff in general is pretty good, G2 and its crossword) and I find it a decent read.

I don't take much of what is reported as gospel (as one shouldn't without doing the proper research first), but I find their editorial better than that of other papers.

You also have to take into account the fact I'm one of those liberalist fools everyone hates.

The voiceovers on What The Papers Say justifies the existence of all newspapers and their various political and social bias. Why isn't it on all the time?

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