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"Decline of the Media"

What a Golden Age we live in, where all the media seems to slipping ever closer to the stinking cesspit that spawned the Sun

Newspapers such as tabloids were never particularly good reads and I assume most bought them for the 'Page 3' girls but even the Suns' moral standards are declining faster than an Albino in a Volcano.

Apparently seeing a former world icon (for all the wrong reason) in his undies constitutes front page news. Oh yes, gripping stuff

The Sun are probably the reporters that thought up the concept of rummaging through celebritys' dustbins to try and find stories. 'OMG - Abi Titmuss eats a Chicken pie - isn't she a veggie ?!' - dun-dun-da, stick it on the front page

And now ITV seems to have taken over Channel 4's role as lord of the smut and programmes not deemed good enough for any other channel.

C4 has been redeemed recently due to Futurama and The Simpsons, whereas ITV has entered a sharp decline, presumably they needed to churn something out to suit their budget, and so along came 'I'm a Z-list celebrity'

I can't comment on the Radio but I assume that out there somewhere will be the Sun meets ITV frequency.

You've just tuned in to hear DJ Jobless smack his head with a wooden spoon for 6 hours straight

Ah. The age of cynacism is upon us. I blame Goatboy - he made me a cynacist. The thought of him as a crippled sadist hunched over the computer, venting his anger down the wires as he slowly develops a hunchback, whilst his hands latch onto the keyboard

So, there you go. Media is going, going ... gone ! Well, good (non BBC) terrestrial

Yeah, I hate the sun. Shallow bastaaaads! Some radio sucks as well, the program with johnny vaughan anyway. Oh how I hate him.

Take refuge in books like I do.

From Hasselhoff that's rich.
I watched Baywatch expecting some serious drama about lifesaving, and all I got was soft porn and pyscho twins keeping Michael Knight in a cave whilst the tide came in.

I miss Feral David Hasselhoff & Log in The Creek

I once heard David Hasselhoff say he was shocked by Page 3, which is understandable - you're an American, you buy The Sun, you open it, and get hit with 19-year-old Melanie's melons. Must be a little shocking I suppose.

Hmmm

I dunno, I only stayed there for two weeks.

The television aspect of it was awful.

Print wasn't that bad though, they didn't seem to have as many 'celeb-rags' like the Sun

I think that people would be less ignorant if the media was 'smarter'.

" The drugs don't work "

American media hmmm, a couple of nights ago i had ABC news on, the three stories they had were the contradiction of Star Wars being marketed at kids, a racists gun rampage at a shell casing factory and the last one was a piece they called "The War On Pain" (take a guess which one got most time) in which they quite pointlessly went on about medical science and how pain would soon be non-existant, has it never occurred to anyone that firstly there might be a little less pain if they stopped shooting each other and secondly that pain in an essential human function, a way of telling you they maybe punching walls in a blind rage is a bad thing.

" all the drugs in the world......"

I couldn't possibly agree more with all the sentiments in this thread.

Except Gamezfreak. My sister lived in America for the past 6 years and said it was a joke, just how little factual news there was and how it was one big commercial mess.

She also noted that Americans rarely have news about other countries.



And Roj is completely right. Put that Z back.

Black Glove wrote:
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> Tabloids on the decline? Surely they've been on the decline for
> decades.

He he.

They never started off on a particularly high level in the first place.

You wonder why so many people are so thick and then you take a look at what they read and it all becomes clear.

Now it's not quite that simple but news has become entertainment and some places find the entertainment aspect to be more important than the facts.

Even those watching Paxman are guilty of this.