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How did the British tabloid press end up so minging and untrustworthy?

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And when did this all happen?

ehwhat | 09 May '08, 17:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

people get

the papers they deserve? i dont like them, but are they really that untrustworthy? I dont think they are actually allowed to lie about stuff, you know, legality and all that. And they do represent a large proportion of the uk, and if thats what people like to read, we cant really argue with that.

gamecat | 9 May '08, 17:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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it's more down to highlighted observations and choice descriptions.

Toni_Montana | 9 May '08, 17:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

They

do flat out lie about things all the time, for all sorts of reasons that arent inherently political . The fact that there is virtually no time for verification is a major issue..

twicetwoequalsfour | 9 May '08, 17:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I meant liek

a brief history of this happening.

I'm bored yet interested yet lazy

ehwhat | 9 May '08, 17:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

basically

since it was established in Victorian times.

if anything, it was even more untrustworthy then. more difficult to do someone for libel

RockNRollMassacre | 9 May '08, 17:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i can't actually tell if it's a joke

but basically, tabloids were set up with the sole intention of being populist and sensational because it made lots of money. there's been no shift in tabloid culture really; they've always been like this.

although, i suppose lurid reporting of murders has been supplanted a little with lurid reporting of celebrity sex, but it's just the same really. cheap titillation

RockNRollMassacre | 9 May '08, 17:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Murders > Celebrity sex

But celebrity sex murders > everything else.

MelesMeles | 9 May '08, 18:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i'd vouch for more

competing publications = more dubious standards in the struggle to get readers.

rusty0403 | 9 May '08, 17:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Good point.

And then the internet showed up and made it ten times harder for them.

MirriLondon | 9 May '08, 18:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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