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I'm coming to a close on my 'Tabloids: A prostitution of art' essay and I would just like to get a few opinion on a few bits of it. You (students) are my target audience, so if you like it I have done good!
"There are endless Government campaigns telling us that smoking rots our lungs and gives us diseases. Well in my opinion tabloids should carry health warnings, they rot the readers mind and spread the disease of ignorance on a national level. They turn everyday people into racist bigots who hate asylum seekers just because stupid tabloid journalists have the audacity to cover only one side of the story and portray immigrant as blood-sucking leeches that are sucking the life and soul out of the country and thriving off taxpayer’s money. "
"Surely if you study to university level you have high hopes for yourself, and are planning a successful career. A proven writer selling their talent to a tabloid is, in my opinion, the same as a potential supermodel giving up their hopes of walking the catwalks in Rome, Paris or Vienna and instead working as a street corner hussy in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. "
"Whilst a reputable newspaper, such as The Times, may report on the new University Top-up fees, the chances are that any given tabloid will have a 16-page spread on which Hollywood women are victims of cellulite, which prestigious high street retailer David Beckham buys his socks from, or how Vanessa Feltz was held captive in her own home, by an angry-looking house spider. "
Views please, chief's and chiefettes.
Thanks
"There are endless Government campaigns telling us that smoking rots our lungs and gives us diseases. Well in my opinion tabloids should carry health warnings, they rot the readers mind and spread the disease of ignorance on a national level. They turn everyday people into racist bigots who hate asylum seekers just because stupid tabloid journalists have the audacity to cover only one side of the story and portray immigrant as blood-sucking leeches that are sucking the life and soul out of the country and thriving off taxpayer’s money. "
"Surely if you study to university level you have high hopes for yourself, and are planning a successful career. A proven writer selling their talent to a tabloid is, in my opinion, the same as a potential supermodel giving up their hopes of walking the catwalks in Rome, Paris or Vienna and instead working as a street corner hussy in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. "
"Whilst a reputable newspaper, such as The Times, may report on the new University Top-up fees, the chances are that any given tabloid will have a 16-page spread on which Hollywood women are victims of cellulite, which prestigious high street retailer David Beckham buys his socks from, or how Vanessa Feltz was held captive in her own home, by an angry-looking house spider. "
Views please, chief's and chiefettes.
Thanks
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I think I will change the assylum seekers bit, but you haven't seen the picture as a whole.
I mention, in detail, how celebrity gossip magazines are all well and good but tabloids are just diluted poor-man's version of Hello magazine.
If you have msn messenger would you mind adding me so I can send you the whole thing for you to read, as you obviously have an educated opinion and are the sort of person I want to proof-read thing before I submit it.
I'd email it to you but my hotmail doesnt work.
I mention, in detail, how celebrity gossip magazines are all well and good but tabloids are just diluted poor-man's version of Hello magazine.
If you have msn messenger would you mind adding me so I can send you the whole thing for you to read, as you obviously have an educated opinion and are the sort of person I want to proof-read thing before I submit it.
I'd email it to you but my hotmail doesnt work.
Tabloids - like any publication - endorse a certain world view and odds are that if a person shares that view then they will buy that publication because it supports and furthers that view of the world. If someone loves all this celebrity stuff then they won't buy the Independent becase coverage of that will be limited and the main articles probably not of interest.
Think of it like news channels - I dislike the BBC because of how they handled the Afghanistan/Iraq wars but I like Sky and Fox because I feel they handled them well. Other here will disagree but neither I nor them is 100% right because they both presented alternate world views.
Think of it like news channels - I dislike the BBC because of how they handled the Afghanistan/Iraq wars but I like Sky and Fox because I feel they handled them well. Other here will disagree but neither I nor them is 100% right because they both presented alternate world views.
Paradox: wrote:
> "There are endless Government campaigns telling us that smoking
> rots our lungs and gives us diseases. Well in my opinion tabloids
> should carry health warnings, they rot the readers mind and spread
> the disease of ignorance on a national level. They turn everyday
> people into racist bigots who hate asylum seekers just because stupid
> tabloid journalists have the audacity to cover only one side of the
> story and portray immigrant as blood-sucking leeches that are sucking
> the life and soul out of the country and thriving off taxpayer’s
> money. "
I think you should really back this up with some kind of evidence or example because it's generalised. Tabloids don't do that to everyone who reads them. It's also perfectly possible to hate asylum seekers without being racist or a bigot - you've fallen into the trap of definition. Do you mean legal or illegal asylum seekers? You need to be much clearer as to what you mean because there is an element of truth in what you are accusing tabloids of saying - no one can deny that asylum seekers - both legal and illegal - are using taxpayer money and a number or recent high profile cases surround illegal immigrants has shown that they are doing damage in this country.
> "Surely if you study to university level you have high hopes for
> yourself, and are planning a successful career. A proven writer
> selling their talent to a tabloid is, in my opinion, the same as a
> potential supermodel giving up their hopes of walking the catwalks in
> Rome, Paris or Vienna and instead working as a street corner hussy in
> the Red Light District of Amsterdam. "
Isn't their a certain power in writing though? The words of a journalist can have massive influence in the right scenario regardless of where it is printed.
> "Whilst a reputable newspaper, such as The Times, may report on
> the new University Top-up fees, the chances are that any given
> tabloid will have a 16-page spread on which Hollywood women are
> victims of cellulite, which prestigious high street retailer David
> Beckham buys his socks from, or how Vanessa Feltz was held captive in
> her own home, by an angry-looking house spider. "
So all the paper's should cover the same thing and all ignore the same thing? The fact is that people choose to buy tabloids because they like them- maybe more discussion about why they buy them would be better than this, obviously personal, rage against the tabloids.
> "There are endless Government campaigns telling us that smoking
> rots our lungs and gives us diseases. Well in my opinion tabloids
> should carry health warnings, they rot the readers mind and spread
> the disease of ignorance on a national level. They turn everyday
> people into racist bigots who hate asylum seekers just because stupid
> tabloid journalists have the audacity to cover only one side of the
> story and portray immigrant as blood-sucking leeches that are sucking
> the life and soul out of the country and thriving off taxpayer’s
> money. "
I think you should really back this up with some kind of evidence or example because it's generalised. Tabloids don't do that to everyone who reads them. It's also perfectly possible to hate asylum seekers without being racist or a bigot - you've fallen into the trap of definition. Do you mean legal or illegal asylum seekers? You need to be much clearer as to what you mean because there is an element of truth in what you are accusing tabloids of saying - no one can deny that asylum seekers - both legal and illegal - are using taxpayer money and a number or recent high profile cases surround illegal immigrants has shown that they are doing damage in this country.
> "Surely if you study to university level you have high hopes for
> yourself, and are planning a successful career. A proven writer
> selling their talent to a tabloid is, in my opinion, the same as a
> potential supermodel giving up their hopes of walking the catwalks in
> Rome, Paris or Vienna and instead working as a street corner hussy in
> the Red Light District of Amsterdam. "
Isn't their a certain power in writing though? The words of a journalist can have massive influence in the right scenario regardless of where it is printed.
> "Whilst a reputable newspaper, such as The Times, may report on
> the new University Top-up fees, the chances are that any given
> tabloid will have a 16-page spread on which Hollywood women are
> victims of cellulite, which prestigious high street retailer David
> Beckham buys his socks from, or how Vanessa Feltz was held captive in
> her own home, by an angry-looking house spider. "
So all the paper's should cover the same thing and all ignore the same thing? The fact is that people choose to buy tabloids because they like them- maybe more discussion about why they buy them would be better than this, obviously personal, rage against the tabloids.
I'm coming to a close on my 'Tabloids: A prostitution of art' essay and I would just like to get a few opinion on a few bits of it. You (students) are my target audience, so if you like it I have done good!
"There are endless Government campaigns telling us that smoking rots our lungs and gives us diseases. Well in my opinion tabloids should carry health warnings, they rot the readers mind and spread the disease of ignorance on a national level. They turn everyday people into racist bigots who hate asylum seekers just because stupid tabloid journalists have the audacity to cover only one side of the story and portray immigrant as blood-sucking leeches that are sucking the life and soul out of the country and thriving off taxpayer’s money. "
"Surely if you study to university level you have high hopes for yourself, and are planning a successful career. A proven writer selling their talent to a tabloid is, in my opinion, the same as a potential supermodel giving up their hopes of walking the catwalks in Rome, Paris or Vienna and instead working as a street corner hussy in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. "
"Whilst a reputable newspaper, such as The Times, may report on the new University Top-up fees, the chances are that any given tabloid will have a 16-page spread on which Hollywood women are victims of cellulite, which prestigious high street retailer David Beckham buys his socks from, or how Vanessa Feltz was held captive in her own home, by an angry-looking house spider. "
Views please, chief's and chiefettes.
Thanks
"There are endless Government campaigns telling us that smoking rots our lungs and gives us diseases. Well in my opinion tabloids should carry health warnings, they rot the readers mind and spread the disease of ignorance on a national level. They turn everyday people into racist bigots who hate asylum seekers just because stupid tabloid journalists have the audacity to cover only one side of the story and portray immigrant as blood-sucking leeches that are sucking the life and soul out of the country and thriving off taxpayer’s money. "
"Surely if you study to university level you have high hopes for yourself, and are planning a successful career. A proven writer selling their talent to a tabloid is, in my opinion, the same as a potential supermodel giving up their hopes of walking the catwalks in Rome, Paris or Vienna and instead working as a street corner hussy in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. "
"Whilst a reputable newspaper, such as The Times, may report on the new University Top-up fees, the chances are that any given tabloid will have a 16-page spread on which Hollywood women are victims of cellulite, which prestigious high street retailer David Beckham buys his socks from, or how Vanessa Feltz was held captive in her own home, by an angry-looking house spider. "
Views please, chief's and chiefettes.
Thanks
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