Sarah_Jayne |
11-04-2004 05:34 PM |
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Originally posted by Tipsy
Not really - people get confused on that point. The Sun and The Mirror are both VERY biased and nothing more than glorified comics but....
They are the 2 biggest selling newspapers in the UK and the majority of people reading them haven't the intelligence to appreciate how much BS is in them.
You've gotta remember that a huge chunk of the population is far from intelligent in most countries as proven in the recent US elections :glugglug
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exactly...both papers have such strong slants that they know what they have to say to get their readers to buy the paper in the morning. The Mail is just as bad and is pretty much writing Conservative policy at the moment.
The Mirror was VERY anti the war and if they did anything other than that cover their readders would have felt let down. It would be like fox telling its viewers to vote Kerry.
I am always slightly uncomfortable about the way papers in this country take such strong editorial lines but I guess that is what people here are used to. In the States it is more like that on TV and not so much in the papers and here it is reversed with the TV and radio news striving to be objective and the retop newspapers being anything but when it comes to politics.
The sun is written on a second grade reading level and never had a paragraph longer than three or four sentences. The mirror isn't all that better.
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