Tabloid 'news' papers nothing but trash

My brother finally saw the light and stopped buying the Daily Star as he considered it to be little more than Big Brother and Celebrity News. A few people I know have given up on this rubbish rag as they are sick of reading about reality show contestants, soap characters, the Beckhams and Britney Spears.

It never ceases to amaze me how & why so many people are interested in the lives of 'famous people'. Personally, I just don't understand what is so fascinating about the lives and goings-on of 'Posh & Becks', Madonna, members of our German Royal family and so on.

It's hardly surprising the newspapers continue to pursue these people and pay the paparazzi vast sums of money to photograph them, when so many mindless idiots spend their hard-earned cash on learning who's had cosmetic surgery, who's sha**ing who, or snorting cocaine & etc.

Isn't it all rather trivial and pathetic?

I suppose we get the trashy newspapers and magazines we deserve.

The newspapers are there to sell newspapers. A great number of them consider that informing the public truthfully falls a long way down their list of priorities.

That's why I never buy them. I might read one at the barbers, but I don't believe any of them. You'll rarely find anything truthful in a newspaper apart from the paper's name, the date and the price.

Let's ignore the tabloids, which are really comics for humans of adult stature, but childlike mentality. [Lots of pictures]

Let's look at the broadsheets: Distinctly more facts, but still often far more opinion than facts. Often the intention is deliberately to stir-up controversey and sell more papers. Informing the readership remains strictly secondary to increasing circulation.
As a test, look at any scientific subject and then seek out the science. With the internet it isn't difficult. You'll frequently find some famous idiot opining about climate change, who has no scientific credentials in the subject, but he'll tell you at length why the scientists have got it all wrong. Except that the truth is of course that someone has got it all wrong, and it isn't the the world's greatest scientists!

Hint: It's the idiot writing in the newspaper.[DUH!]

Unfortunately Powell those of us who share your opinion of the gutter tabloids are in a minority, if the sales figures are a measure of their popularity, and sales figures are all that matter to the owners of those publications. What matters to their readers mystifies me.

If people stopped buying these pernicious rags, advertisers would stop advertising in them, cutting off their principal source of revenue, and they would go bust.

The world would then be a better place, so-called celebrities would fade from the limlelight they seek, pollution would be cut down and forests would be saved, and maybe people would take an interest in more important issues than anorexic trailer trash bimbo slags, wealthy people who can afford to be self indulgent, and all the other rubbish that fills the tabloids.

I've never bought a tabloid in my life.

Now the Tabloids are on the Faldo witchhunt. Next will be Capello, after they have trashed Hamilton. Why do the tabloids insist on shipping the black on our winners in sport. It certainly is not in the Public Interest. More like circulation interest.
Instead of the villains in society they target the Celebs Rich and British winners, and leave the hard targets alone, hey they are just like the CSA, maybe they should rebrand CSASUN MirrorCSA etc etc.
Get back to real journalism not gutter press stories.

Newspapers these days have no value, not that the online news sources are any more trustworthy. I remember in the days of my youth seeing the trashy headlines in The Sun, The Star and the News of the World (hah.. news, what a joke!). Funny thing is I rarely ever see a newspaper these days, probably because of my shopping habits (not going to a newsagent for anything) and the fact that I don't know anyone who reads a newspaper. Do they still print?

I agree.
I really can't see what people see in them. I personally don't care about talentless anorexic celebrity #142 or some bloke performing a perfectly legal sex act with consenting adults.

The Daily Express is another pompous collection of stuck ups who think their style is the only thing that is right.

If you are different and appear to be a threat, they won’t even acknowledge that you are there.

It says something about those who have status and wealth and think others should be below them – they are the ones who cause most problems within society generating a two-tier society because they are less capable but don’t want to be seen as such, so they become control freaks and only stay in control by making sure they have preferential treatment over others.

Strange how the wealthiest are the most corrupt and the disadvantaged are where most intelligent ideas and creations have come from. Ideas associated with wealth have probably been bought from somewhere, which was bought from somewhere else, etc. until it gets to its origin which was likely to have been a relatively poorer person who was in need of support. These rich snobs pay pittance for it and exploit the circumstances of the disadvantaged for their own selfish greed.

It shows how the wealthy try to buy intelligence but unfortunately it will never work, because these people are their own weakest link and will never be free from it since it will work in series with everything they do.

Feel sorry for them as wealth and status are external strengths and they cannot manage without taking these with them wherever they go – which must add a lot to what they take around with them – they cannot manage by just being their self.

I thought I was going insane until I read your comments. And did you notice that 5 out of 5 comments agree? Why do we have the red tops anymore??