Tabloid "Journalism"

[GingerBlokey 30]

Originally posted by: Boggy1 The only reason why I like tabloids is that they are nice and small and compact and can be easily managed and read. Unlike broadsheets newspapers, which I have to have a boxing match with to get it to behave and be nice and flat and small and easy to read. The Guardian is nice because its in berlinier format, which is sorta inbetween the two.quote>

The Times and The Independent are both tabloid or "compact" size.

The only newspapers which still publish in broadsheet are the Telegraph and FT which you wouldn't read anyway.

[toxicpiano 125]

Originally posted by: GingerBlokey

Originally posted by: Boggy1 The only reason why I like tabloids is that they are nice and small and compact and can be easily managed and read. Unlike broadsheets newspapers, which I have to have a boxing match with to get it to behave and be nice and flat and small and easy to read. The Guardian is nice because its in berlinier format, which is sorta inbetween the two.quote>

The Times and The Independent are both tabloid or "compact" size.

The only newspapers which still publish in broadsheet are the Telegraph and FT which you wouldn't read anyway.quote>

What's wrong with the telegraph? Boris Johnson has a column in it

[GingerBlokey 30]

Originally posted by: toxicpiano

Originally posted by: GingerBlokey

Originally posted by: Boggy1 The only reason why I like tabloids is that they are nice and small and compact and can be easily managed and read. Unlike broadsheets newspapers, which I have to have a boxing match with to get it to behave and be nice and flat and small and easy to read. The Guardian is nice because its in berlinier format, which is sorta inbetween the two.quote>

The Times and The Independent are both tabloid or "compact" size.

The only newspapers which still publish in broadsheet are the Telegraph and FT which you wouldn't read anyway.quote>

What's wrong with the telegraph? Boris Johnson has a column in it quote>

You answered your own question here.

Your'e talking to a Guardian-reader who thinks that Ken Livingstone is the best thing to happen to London, well, ever.

[TheQuiltedLlama 34]

You may not like his policies, but you gotta love Boris Johnson, even if you wouldn't vote for him.

[BurroDiablo 222]

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Originally posted by: TheQuiltedLlama You may not like his policies, but you gotta love Boris Johnson, even if you wouldn't vote for him. quote>

Now way in hell would I vote for him (we'd be riding pigs to work within the week), but he's definitely one of the funniest and most eccentric Politicians there is.

[Bumdark 3]

Excuse me, maybe I missed something... the very first post that started the thread, by GingerBlokey, mentioned an article in The Sun. What article is this, where can I view it?

I once read a tabloid that, on the front page, had some image of a large cloud of smoke from oil fires in Arabia, and in the cloud was a sort of huge demon face; the headline read something like "The Devil is taking over our country! Hell will rise soon!" (I was in the US that week.)

You gotta love tabloids -- they put cynism into life, and without cynism (I've no idea how to spell that) life would be too damn politely boring...

Once again, I'm requesting to know what article GingerBlokey was so riled up at, please.

[GingerBlokey 30]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/justice/article841077.ece

Ok here are the gripes I have with this article, which is broadly typical.

"Monster Mark Dixie" - If he was a monster it would excuse what he did, he is a human being

"hero dad Garry Newlove" - A hero by what standards? Not neutral.

"dared to ask the burning question" - It takes no courage to ask about the death penalty.

"You The Jury poll" - Wha? Justice by the media. I hate it.

"a storm of controversy" - Which The Sun was at the heart of

Also the article uses excessivley-emotive language throughout and is highly biased towards the death pnealty. Can we trust the results of a poll about the death penalty when the question was asked directly opposite an article about murderers.

The paper quoted about 10 people for the death penalty but only one reader against it. It didn't ask Ammnesty International or any politicans which are strongly against it.

[Bumdark 3]

Wow Blokey, I'd only read a bit more than a paragraph and already I'd had enough of that crap. What a load of manipulative waffle... complete crap... How d'you manage to read the entire damn thing when only the start was enough to push me away?

[krbe 193]

Originally posted by: GingerBlokey"You The Jury poll" - Wha? Justice by the media. I hate it.

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That is disgusting.

Also the article uses excessivley-emotive language throughout and is highly biased towards the death pnealty. quote>

I demand Afghan standards! That way we can execute journalist like these.

Can we trust the results of a poll about the death penalty when the question was asked directly opposite an article about murderers.quote>

No.

The paper quoted about 10 people for the death penalty but only one reader against it. It didn't ask Ammnesty International or any politicans which are strongly against it.quote>

A staggering 99% of 95 000 The Sun readers who answered a poll on the internet want the government to precide over the life and death of their criminal sons and daughters (God, I wish we could execute the thugs that destroy the bus seats). As everybody know, the accuracy grows with the number of respondents, this is especially true for internet polls.

While we're at it, can't we get rid of the jews that control Europe too? A staggering 100% of the one surveyed agrees to this.

But hey, they got UFOs and Norwegian tits on the frontpage today. Real UFOs, according to the experts (in contrast to the tits).