the press

[tripod]

don't usually read tabloids but today I read through the sun and the star in the van. Now I accept these are both bullshit 'newspapers', and are as worth as much as Joanna Yeates pizza, but who the fcuk gave them licence to print such absolute bollocks? What really gets me is they can comment about something/someone and quote 'a source said' or 'an insider said'. Filth rags I wouldn't wipe me arse on

[Prufrock]

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Any special reason?

[clapton is god]

Heard on R4 the other night.

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transc ... 132383.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Major distress was caused after the recent floods when it was reported in an Australian newspaper:

'More than 30,000 pigs have been floating down the Dawson River since last weekend...'

But the next morning...

Correction

'What Baralaba piggery-owner Sid Everingham actually said was "30 sows and pigs", not "30,000 pigs".'

[bobo the clown]

Heard on R4 the other night.

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transc ... 132383.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Major distress was caused after the recent floods when it was reported in an Australian newspaper:

'More than 30,000 pigs have been floating down the Dawson River since last weekend...'

But the next morning...

Correction

'What Baralaba piggery-owner Sid Everingham actually said was "30 sows and pigs", not "30,000 pigs".'

Many moons ago I arranged a piece of publicity into the local rag ... it was to advertise an upcoming Pantomime production of "Dick Wittington and His Cat". We sent some info & I had a brief telephone chat.

Imagine my 'amusement' when the headline read that the theatre was showing "Annie's Cat" the following week.

[ratbert]

Tabloids make things up. That's why they get sued. They also go to any lengths necessary to get pointless celebrity stories. Never mind phone hacking; one tabloid dirt digger I know of followed a famous person home, climbed their wall, broke into their shed and ran a ladder up to the bedroom window, gleefully peeping in on the bedtime activity that chavs snap up in their hundreds.

Tabloids make people like Jade Goody and Katie Price famous; they pay young girls to ensare famous people in honeytraps; they undermine World Cup bids and anything else that could be good for the country. Tabloids present opinion as fact and stir up hatred.

Still, freedom of the press, eh?

[superjohnmcginlay]

Aye but they do catch cheating Pakistani cricketers so they'll do for me.

[TANGODANCER]

Aye but they do catch cheating Pakistani cricketers so they'll do for me.

No, they just make a bomb out of the story.

[boltonboris]

Aye but they do catch cheating Pakistani cricketers so they'll do for me.

No, they just make a bomb out of the story.

Racist

[bobo the clown]

We can rail against it all we like, but these are the circulation figues for the daily's for 2010 ;

The Sun-------------------3,006,565
Daily Mail------------------2,120,347
Daily Mirror----------------1,218,425
Daily Star--------------------779,376
Daily Telegraph------------691,128
Daily Express---------------674,640
The Times-------------------508,250
Financial Times------------390,315
Daily Record----------------323,831
The Guardian--------------302,285
Evening Standard---------238,403 (2009 fig)
The Independent----------185,815

No-ones forcing people to buy along these lines. So the great British public seem to prefer thair comics to the 'quality' press.

[Lofthouse Lower]

I remember when the Guardian was worth buying.

Seems a long time ago now

[Worthy4England]

We can rail against it all we like, but these are the circulation figues for the daily's for 2010 ;

The Sun-------------------3,006,565
Daily Mail------------------2,120,347
Daily Mirror----------------1,218,425
Daily Star--------------------779,376
Daily Telegraph------------691,128
Daily Express---------------674,640
The Times-------------------508,250
Financial Times------------390,315
Daily Record----------------323,831
The Guardian--------------302,285
Evening Standard---------238,403 (2009 fig)
The Independent----------185,815

No-ones forcing people to buy along these lines. So the great British public seem to prefer thair comics to the 'quality' press.

I find it quite amusing when we get some story quoted - often around thorny topics like immigration or benefits cheats etc. and someone trots out indignantly, that "people don't think like that - there's only those that read the Sun/Mail/Mirror, think like that"....

Well - yes - that would appear to be a fairly comfortable majority of newspaper readers then...

[Wandering Willy]

Daily Mail------------------2,120,347

Please tell me that's an annual figure.

[thebish]

I find it quite amusing when we get some story quoted - often around thorny topics like immigration or benefits cheats etc. and someone trots out indignantly, that "people don't think like that - there's only those that read the Sun/Mail/Mirror, think like that"....

you're very easily amused!

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

Daily Mail------------------2,120,347

Please tell me that's an annual figure.

And it's only circulation. Not readership. Be afraid. Be very afraid....

[William the White]

I remember when the Guardian was worth buying.

Seems a long time ago now

Still the only one worth it... Though far from a golden age...

Like urging its readership to vote Lib Dem last time...

Still, given that readership, and the fact that most will have ignored it... Probably not to blame for the stench surrounding us...

[Harry Genshaw]

I remember when the Guardian was worth buying.

Seems a long time ago now

Still the only one worth it... Though far from a golden age...

Like urging its readership to vote Lib Dem last time...

Still, given that readership, and the fact that most will have ignored it... Probably not to blame for the stench surrounding us...

I buy the Guardian AND I voted Liberal last time out

On the plus side I did boo Megson before he left

[Lord Kangana]

Someone told me the other day that the Daily Mail online is the most read newspaper website in the world. Please someone, anyone, provide the data to say this is bollox.

I read The Telegraph and The Independent as it happens. though papers are not what they were.

[Lord Kangana]

Oh, and The Observer. Cracking sunday paper that.

[William the White]

The Telegraph bit surprises me...

I wish the Independent had better writing (but what do I know, really? I only get it when I'm catching a train for a long journey...)

I do the Ob on Sunday... Sports pages, theatre reviews and Rawnsley good value... I think it's great having a theatre critic called Clapp...

[Worthy4England]

I get the Torygraph when I'm working away - but only to do the crossword...

Other than that, I do all my news reading online.