They must think we're Idiots!

Nova5

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
TheRealCJ said:
What's the headline in the sunday paper today? Greg Norman. GREG. FUCKING. NORMAN.
Let's see what we can match you with:
News of the World: "Someone calls some one else a racial epithet"
Sunday People/Sunday Mirror : "Inside the HELL NURSERY" : Female Paedophile
Independent/Observer : "Tory Turmoil over Ireland"
Mail on Sunday: MP leaves Hit & Run accident saying "You know where you can get me"
Telegraph: "Al-Queda could have nukes"
Sunday Times: Tories will force people to work
Sunday Express: Cervical jab "MAY BE AS DANGEROUS AS CANCER"

Sunday Sport:
Basshunter babe is PORN star!
THE stunning star of a steamy new pop video boasts a sensational hardcore gangbang PORN secret.
Daily Star: Ellen Mcarthur is retiring.

And people wonder why I'm so cynical.
A-bloody-men, brother.
 

UpcountryGecko

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It's because sadly this will sell more papers then reporting on the actual struggles of the world. I remember looking at the newspaper front pages after Brown's conference speech. I remember all of the broadsheets had news on it at which point I turned to the news of the world which had as it's front page 'Jordan "I still have feelings for Pete"'....Can someone please explain to me how, what is more the likely, the current prime minister's final party conference as leader is less important then some washed up celebrities news is considered more important.
 

AvsJoe

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No different over here in Canada. Celebrity news and sports pages clog our newspapers (yes, the Jays/Raptors/Canadiens/Stampeders won, good for them, they don't need a full page each) and real news (especially from around the globe) rarely gets more than 20% or so of the paper. I wish that our generation still had reliable and unbiased journalism instead of what poses for it today.
 

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That's what you get when all that it's about is money. Earning money nowadays is a lot more important than being a servant of the public, because that's what it means to be a journalist. Sadly I failed my Bachelor in Journalism, I really wanted to make a difference in the world of journalism.
 
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EchetusXe said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
Sunday Express: Cervical jab "MAY BE AS DANGEROUS AS CANCER"
That is the worst of the bunch.
The ones I really get upset with are the
VICIOUS PAEDOPHILE CAPTURED/MILEY CYRUS LOOKS GREAT
twin face-slaps.

Either that or the "Here are the photos [Celebrity X] doesn't want to see.": So you admit you're deliberately torturing someone for ratings?
 

TheRealCJ

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Greg Norman is a well known guy. The fact that they could have used more interesting and community problems to put in their paper is weird. I just think that they had chosen that because no one else was stupid enough to put it in their paper and would attract attention and therefore...sales.
Well, the problem is that The Courier/Sunday mail (the one I'm talking about) it pretty much only one of two newspapers available in Brisbane (discounting the local and free papers). And also pretty much the only big newspaper that is local (the other big one, the Australian, covers the whole of Australia, not just Queensland).
 

TheRealCJ

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Twilight_guy said:
BonsaiK said:
Be aware that due to printing times, the paper might have gone to press before the tsunami news broke. Might not be their fault. Look for the story tomorrow.
This. It's possible that they knew nothing of the Tsunami and were planning to run that story(for some reason) as their front page. If they heard the news and didn't have enough time to write a story, put it together, replan the layout and get it finalized before they had to ship to the printing presses(which I'd image takes some time), then they couldn't have possibly got the story in the paper in time. Not every slip up is malicious or an act of idiocy, some are just bad timing.
Except the Tsunami happened on, what, thursday? This is a DAILY newspaper.
 

TheRealCJ

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ottenni said:
Which paper was it? Probably the bloody Herald Sun.
Courier/Sunday Mail.

It's the Queensland version of the Herald Sun, so, you know, smaller words.
 

TheRealCJ

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Mezzamine said:
You've only just realised how thick the tabloids are? I think it clicked for me when I saw the news on the day of the large Hadron Collider.

The Telegraph - 'LHC switched on today!'

Daily Mail - 'LHC could cause a black hole!'

Daily Mirror - 'Posh's New Haircut!'

*facepalm*
That's the problem; it's not a tabloid, it's a daily print newspaper. In fact, it's pretty much the leading newspaper in my part of the world.
 

EchetusXe

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
EchetusXe said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
Sunday Express: Cervical jab "MAY BE AS DANGEROUS AS CANCER"
That is the worst of the bunch.
The ones I really get upset with are the
VICIOUS PAEDOPHILE CAPTURED/MILEY CYRUS LOOKS GREAT
twin face-slaps.

Either that or the "Here are the photos [Celebrity X] doesn't want to see.": So you admit you're deliberately torturing someone for ratings?
Yeah, but some people will read that story from the Express. Not allow their daughter to have the jab. Then will live to see their daughter develop cervical cancer.

I say damaging lies like that are more distasteful than good old fashioned hypocrisy and paparazzi scum.