Tabloid 'news' papers nothing but trash

They don't care who gets in their way,as long as they sell more and more copies of their newspaperss.For example,the media labells all teenagers yobs if they are hanging around street corners,wearing hoodies and "suposedly kicking the s**t out of a cat"

Two things have really wound me up to the extent of searching under 'tabloid journalism fed up' on the web, firstly the cheryl cole/ashley cole/john terry/wayne bridge tripe that the red tops seem to think is more important than the wars in iraq and afghanistan, and secondly the lynch mob mentality over the latest Jon Vanables case. I particularly love the way the red tops say 'a source' claims that, when its clear the only source that said anything is the tabloid journalists fear of the sack and the need to make up tripe in order to keep his job. Well I'll write my own 'exclusive'. A source claims that tabloid journalism is on its way out. 99.9% of those interviewed claimed that the tabloids are a waste of space. I'll even 'interview' some of its victims who are all 'furious' at the rubbish it churns out, namely all of us!

Couldn't agree more.Thank God there are so many who think this way. Now what are we going to do about it?

The tabloids are the worst. But the broadsheets are little better. Same content, same bias, simply communicated in a more civil manner.

they will stop writing pieces like this when you stop reading them

The thing that all the news media seem to do which annoys me intensely is when they say that scientists have discovered that eating/drinking (or not eating/drinking) something, or doing (or not doing) something doubles your chances of getting a particular disease, usually a type of cancer. BUT, they don't follow up with the actual numbers!

They don't seem to have a clue (nor do most of the readers probably) that a statement like this is totally meaningless without the numbers.

If, for example, your chances are doubled from one in ten to one in five you might be right to be worried; but if your chances of getting this disease go from being one in 10,000 to one in 5,000 you really don't need to lose any sleep over it!

This sort of sloppy journalism seems to happen far too often and it drives me mad!!

Totaly agree, with this gripe and and it seems ALL of the comments. Who really does buy these things anymore?

Sad a*ses buy The Sun, Daily Star, Mail, Express, Sport, etc. Not enough sh*ite on tv to digest I suppose. Mail and Express are NWO scaremongers. These sad ar*se, brainwashed readers revel in a stack of bad news followed by a periodic, usually corny, lovey-dovey tidbit. Did I say sad a*ses?

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.