In wondering why anyome buys or reads tabloids?

[Janos]

Really.

They are utterly devoid of any interesting content or intelligent comment.

Can't understand why people actually spend money on them.

And yet they must be popular as their cirulation is consitently higher than the so called 'quality press'.

What gives?

Not for long they won't - Indie will have gone under by end of the year.

the mail is england though, like it or not

How depressing.

I skim read most of the papers online every days, highbrow, tabloid et al, and throughly enjoy them for their differing qualities. It's a habit I got into during my pre DS existence when I was paid to do this for a living.

There is something peculiarly and uniquely repulsive about the DM though. My blood pressure rockets whenever I spend too long perusing its pages, and I dare not go there at all when I'm premenstrual.

Out local caff always has a copy for customers to read, so 12 year old DS and I have competitions to see who can spot the greatest number of articles in any of he following categories:

Cancer Scares,
Falling House Prices,
Evil Career Women Damaging Children,
Fat Celebs,
Nasty Foreign Diseases,
Criminal Asylum Seekers,
Dirty Thieving Travellers

etc etc ad nauseum.

I call it Media Studies Revision!

You missed:

Benefits cheats/scroungers

How could I forget that Nancy!

And Sluttish Neglectful Single Mothers!!

you should also get him to count up the number of times the phrase 'middle class' is used in copy. Don't promise him a quid for every one though or you'll be bankrupt.

love all the MN folk who link Daily mail et al then protest never read it of course.yet can still give a chronological discourse on what they say

oh aye,just glanced in gp waiting room did you

actually people should read whatever they wish,we should be glad we can read a plethora of print media.yes some of it is dubious quality and integrity,but freely available

i worry more about the "ban it" "more censorship" mob.just because something (usually DM) offends some sensibilities doesn't necessarily mean it should be censored.nor should the readers be dismissed as dullards

what is evident. by sheer volume of sales is there is a target audience,who buy it.Now that is an intriguing demographic

I only read the Evening Standard. Is that a tabloid?

I love hate the DM. I read it at my mum's and it gives me the opportunity to feel all outraged and ranty.

I sadly think it is pretty representative of good old Blighty though.

I read tabloids in the cafe. I sort of drift off whilst reading them. They are so fricking dull. I hate the way they use the same lazy cliches, feel the need to stress the sad irony of every tradgedy i.e. the murder victim had just got engaged, little boy in the accident had just had a birthday, etc etc. As if they have to prompt people's sadness (clumsy discription but I hope you know what I am getting at).

I have been doorstepped by tabloid journalists and its very unpleasant. It happens every so often and it always amazes me that they think I would dream of talking to them!

Doesn't the Telegraph come in a tabloid size now? Mind you, folding a broadsheet isn't too hard.

I rarely buy a paper now but I do read the news online and/or my parents paper. It can be interesting to compare different reports of the same news.

Chegirl, why were you doorstepped?

I have a very beautful daughter who died and a very famous neice. The tabs love that sort of thing.

The Evening Standard and the DM are owned by the same people.

Sorry to hear that Chegirl.

Try this site for a fascinating exposition of the DM. Great if you've got teenagers for showing them how important it is to read critically.

Try this site for a fascinating exposition of the DM. Great if you've got teenagers for showing them how important it is to read critically.