journalism for the masses
tabloid's are great*
on a sunday i generally buy the observer and one of the redtops. the observer is a real newspaper and there's normally at least an hours worth of reading in it; generally well written and not blatantly biased. there's also very little in the way of celebrity bullshit (the colour supplement is a different kettle of fish though). this week was no different. while mia was working hard making a top birthday cake (possibly the nicest cake ever) i was drinking coffee and finding out what had been going on in the world
my redtop of choice this week was the news of the world. once i had filtered out the 60! pages of football, the dozen or so pages of other sport i was left with about 30 pages of news. of this 12 were of sharon osbourne and why she is a bitch.. that's 12 pages of utter uselessness, 3 of royal nonsense in including the revelation that diana publicclotheshorse somebodyorother was putting it about before she snuffed it; some slapper from big brother showing her arse to the world (nice arse, shame about what it's attached to); and various other non news stories (the spice girls are reforming. yay). as far as real news goes there was 1/3 page dedicated to what had been going on in basra and 1/3 page on gordon brown jigging about with election dates. best of all though was the tabloid's favourite right wing, fop haired mp and possible future mayor of toilet town boris johnson. he's had 7 bikes nicked in london in 7 years you know. shocking!
what gets me is this is what some people read as "news". it actually scares me. i only really buy the tabloids to complain about them; which i just have done.
if only all my aspirations we so easy to achieve
*actually, they're not.
on a sunday i generally buy the observer and one of the redtops. the observer is a real newspaper and there's normally at least an hours worth of reading in it; generally well written and not blatantly biased. there's also very little in the way of celebrity bullshit (the colour supplement is a different kettle of fish though). this week was no different. while mia was working hard making a top birthday cake (possibly the nicest cake ever) i was drinking coffee and finding out what had been going on in the world
my redtop of choice this week was the news of the world. once i had filtered out the 60! pages of football, the dozen or so pages of other sport i was left with about 30 pages of news. of this 12 were of sharon osbourne and why she is a bitch.. that's 12 pages of utter uselessness, 3 of royal nonsense in including the revelation that diana publicclotheshorse somebodyorother was putting it about before she snuffed it; some slapper from big brother showing her arse to the world (nice arse, shame about what it's attached to); and various other non news stories (the spice girls are reforming. yay). as far as real news goes there was 1/3 page dedicated to what had been going on in basra and 1/3 page on gordon brown jigging about with election dates. best of all though was the tabloid's favourite right wing, fop haired mp and possible future mayor of toilet town boris johnson. he's had 7 bikes nicked in london in 7 years you know. shocking!
what gets me is this is what some people read as "news". it actually scares me. i only really buy the tabloids to complain about them; which i just have done.
if only all my aspirations we so easy to achieve
*actually, they're not.
Labels: people can't be this stupid, rant
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3.9.07.
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