Friday, October 9, 2009

Why are Tabloids soooo...popular in our culture?



*TABLOIDS*

*The tabloids are a big industry in our current society.We seem to have a weird fascination for the famous and we love to read about their lives. We love to see pictures of them- especially pictures of them in compromising positions. It is very sad that our society has come to this.Some tabloids are in actual newspapers online and in print. Sometimes they are just a small section of the paper.

*NEWSPAPERS*

*The tabloid paper size varies.Sometime it is a thick section of the paper and sometimes it is the whole paper. The new York daily news just has a small section online. The sun newspaper is all a tabloid paper. The entire paper is covered with tabloid news. These newspapers can be found in any grocery store.

*THE TABLOID MAGAZINE*

*The New York Post has a quite large section for tabloid news. Online you can view their photo gallery of stars with news about them. Some newspapers are truly dedicated to tabloid news. These tabloids are constantly getting in trouble for the stories they print.If they cannot prove the source of the story and someone sues them and says that the story is not true then they can be sued for a lot of money.The national enquirer is one of these magazines. They are one of the biggest in the world for tabloid news. The sun tabloid is also a very popular magazine. It is a weekly tabloid that mainly has stories about famous people and stars.


THE MAIN POINTS TO Y THEY ARE VITALLY POPULAR:


*They are inexpensive.

*They are based on opinion and on emotion.

*They invite the reader to apply judgement or derision.

*They celebrate improbable content.

*They bring the rich, powerful & famous down (levelling them in other words).

*They trade in the economy of emotion.

*They evoke a world with few real life consequences for the reader.

*They appear to disclose secrets and what is private: We feel like "insiders".
*They revel conspiracy theories and other paranoic explanations of phenomena.
*They also relish confessional, "tell all" narratives and exclusive disclosures.

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