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"Tabloid Rant"

Unfortunately, I'm not having a rant about tabloids (not just yet, anyway) but I am writing a creative writing piece about the flaws on tabloid newspapers.

I want other peoples opinions on why they dislike tabloids. I turn to the Life Forum as it is the place where the more educated people post, and I would hope your response would be from an educated point of view. My target audience is more 'quality newspaper' readers with an educated perspective, and hopefully some of you fit into that category

Give me some things you dislike about tabloids and they will be researched and written about.

Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately, I'm not having a rant about tabloids (not just yet, anyway) but I am writing a creative writing piece about the flaws on tabloid newspapers.

I want other peoples opinions on why they dislike tabloids. I turn to the Life Forum as it is the place where the more educated people post, and I would hope your response would be from an educated point of view. My target audience is more 'quality newspaper' readers with an educated perspective, and hopefully some of you fit into that category

Give me some things you dislike about tabloids and they will be researched and written about.

Thanks in advance.

The prominence given to celebrities and what they are doing.

The fact they rarely give a balanced report and get over emotional at times - e.g the Huntley Trial and the Sun's "Evil Scum" etc type headlines. Sure, people should get emotional, but not those rerporting the story because their job is to present the facts.

I have the celebrity thing nailed down:

"They are simply a diluted written version of ‘catching the last 5 minutes of the news on television’, padded out with adverts, pornography, sports news but mostly dedicated to celebrity gossip. In short it is a sort of daily paper-based tribute to last weeks Hello, OK and NOW magazines, bundled together and smothered with colourful pictures that make it ever easier to read less"

But I will add more to it.

The headlines thing is a good idea - cheers.

They're full of ti+s.. By which I mean Richard Littlejohn :^D

You might want to tie the argument into the new trend for broadsheets to print tabloid-sized 'mini' versions.
You could argue that tabloids stink, people only put up with them because they can't handle bigger quality papers, but maybe that means the mini versions will demolish much of the tabloids' circulation...

To be honest I don't even bother with a paper everyday.

Bah. So boring. So unoriginal.

If you REALLY want to be creative, write a piece on why tabloids are good papers. That would make me want to read it. Go on. Be different.

But no. The obvious.

*sighs*

So why are they good papers? Sure you have the whole freedom of choice thing and different tastes thing, but other than that?

After many years of education I can say the Golden Rule for any piece of work is to always chose the easiest topic and always chose the topic you can the marks on easiest. It's okay being original and creative but at the end of the day getting the marks is all that counts.

Take a module I did last term. All groups had to do a presentation about power usage over the past 30 years in a European country. half the groups did the UK, rest did all sorts of countries. we got the highest mark yet we did the crappy boring UK.

Because they do whatever is necessary to make money - the actual news is secondary to whether the paper sells or not. And particularly the Sun and News of the World, because they hire Richard Littlejohn, Garry Bushell and Paul Ross and have the audacity to call them 'journalists'.

Daily Mail.

That's all that has to be said on the matter.

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