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Originally Posted by marcjacob
Sarah youve lived in the US, do you think our tabloids are better or worse that US tabloids?
I havnt brought a newspaper since Diana died. I decided to take a months break in protest, and never felt willing to money into their pockets again. I cant stand the fuckers.
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The tabloids here and in the States are different creatures. When you say 'tabloid' in the States you are generally talking about things like the National Enquirer and even the Weekly World News. They are rubbish and go after celebs but they are a joke and everybody knows it. Over here a tabloid is more correctly named for the shape and size of the paper but they claim to actually be newspapers and a certain portion of the population fall for it. It isn't even the celeb stuff with the tabloids over here because generally I could care less about celebs but it is the way they totally dumb down news and take stances that are clearly racist at times and use 'the people' as an excuse. It is also the hypocracy of them. The Sun will run a story about 'sex pervs' right next to their page with a daily naked teenager on it.
The shame is that this county is responsible for some of the best journalists in the world. They just work in broadcast (especially world service, Radio 4, etc) and leave 'the papers' to rot in the Murdoch sludge.