'News' paper??
I believe that the best selling UK newspapers cover the stories which are most likely to sell at the time.
For instance, whether a celebrity has been drink driving or been kicked out of a reality TV program. I believe that the stories covered in these papers are also displayed through the actual principles behind the papers themselves, as people who purchase The Sun are hardly going to expect a front page spread donned with political issues...
I do believe that newspapers do have the right to educate and inform, but also at the end of the day to entertain aswell, which is how the papers will shift sales wise, as a negative filled paper about political downfalls is not going to sell as well as a paper full of gossip about celebrities about who is hot and who is not....
This I have to say is a sad reflection on the society we live in, as a newspaper in my own opinion should primarily educate and infrom over anything else...
From this it does show that reality TV programs and soaps alike do have a great amount of influence over the UK public, but this has been an evident factor for many years, which is why the newspapers have had to follow suit, whether they like it or not, as reluctance will result in downfall.
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There has been a big growth in reality television programmes and 'celebrity' magazines in recent years. Do you think this might be related to the serious environmental and social issues we currently face? Perhaps we want to hide away from difficult issues such as climate change and poverty, and focus on the here-and-now instead...
ReplyDeleteI agree that there has been a growth in 'celebrity' focused magazines and 'reality' TV programs in recent years, and this has been a knock-on effect of recent world issues.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that these have been used to shy away from the harder topics facing us as a society, as all of the 'real news' is more doom and gloom than positivity...