Tabloids- Does anyone with even half a brain believe a single word they write?

Living in Tory suburbia it greatly amuses my newsagent how many have a 'red top' delivered with their Sunday broadsheet... Possibly just wanting read up on how the other half live...
 
Hacker Khan said:
I'd argue when the red tops are concentrating mostly on celebrity gossip they are pretty harmless, as at the end of the day it's all just fluff and nonsense. It's certain other papers that allegedly trade in 'proper news' but are actually just forwarding their specific agenda through a policy of fear and hatred that are more worrying to me.
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BiB - And it is this policy of putting fear and hatred into everything that IMO is fostering the resentment, anger and jealousy that pervades our society today.
 
Live and let live comes to mind when reading some of these posts. Suggesting people preferring certain news papers are moronic, brainless etc and cant make their own minds up on what they accept as fact is ridiculous, it claims the moral high ground and portrays socialist type attitudes whereby; if you don't fit into their narrow political idiom you are open to abuse and ridicule.

Rather pathetic IMO.
 
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MegaSteve said:
Living in Tory suburbia it greatly amuses my newsagent how many have a 'red top' delivered with their Sunday broadsheet... Possibly just wanting read up on how the other half live...
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As a newspaper boy with one of the poshest rounds in Scotland I was amazed at how many took the News of the World.

Murdoch, The Tory Party and The SNP in an unholy alliance against the BBC is a good story, not really aired much in print.

I can understand the tabloids for the ' great unwashed' but when the broad sheets start printing blatant lies that worries me.
 
SocketRocket said:
Live and let live comes to mind when reading some of these posts. Suggesting people preferring certain news papers are moronic, brainless etc and cant make their own minds up on what they accept as fact is ridiculous, it claims the moral high ground and portrays socialist type attitudes whereby; if you don't fit into their narrow political idiom you are open to abuse and ridicule.

Rather pathetic IMO.
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Hey, there's some good old fashioned right wing paranoia there. I was talking about how the yoghurt knitting yurt eating socialist bed wetters lap up the airy fairy propaganda the Guardian and Mirror churns out day after day. Lefty pinko communists.;)
 
SocketRocket said:
Live and let live comes to mind when reading some of these posts. Suggesting people preferring certain news papers are moronic, brainless etc and cant make their own minds up on what they accept as fact is ridiculous, it claims the moral high ground and portrays socialist type attitudes whereby; if you don't fit into their narrow political idiom you are open to abuse and ridicule.

Rather pathetic IMO.
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Everything bad is due to socialism with you isn't it?

If you don't think gullible people are conned by newspapers of all political flavours, then you are deeply in denial or just don't get it.

Or both.
 
Ethan said:
Everything bad is due to socialism with you isn't it?

If you don't think gullible people are conned by newspapers of all political flavours, then you are deeply in denial or just don't get it.

Or both.
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Not everything bad is due to Socialism. The making of vitreous comments about anyone who has a contrary view is though. I don't really blame them for Ebola or East Enders either!

Regarding peoples News Paper preferences I think you and some others put too much emphasis on it. People are not as stupid as you make out!
 
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SocketRocket said:
Not everything bad is due to Socialism. The making of vitreous comments about anyone who has a contrary view is though. I don't really blame them for Ebola or East Enders either!

Regarding peoples News Paper preferences I think you and some others put too much emphasis on it. People are not as stupid as you make out!
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No, most are stupider.
 
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