Did you see the news tonight!!!

[pique]

Tiger ***** Woods can't keep his trousers on and its the top story. The economies carp, the people of Haiti are entering the hurricane season, people are dying in Afghanistan etc, etc and the top story is Tiger Woods' inability to control his willy ......... Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!

RANT OVER

[Lush_Designs]

thers even a group on facebook called i slept with tiger woods also or summat like that...but yeh theres a lot more pressing issues than how often tiger puts it about.

[Lush_Designs]

anyway what bloke can control it? lol

*runs off to hide before i get lynched* :P

[victorfrank]

Quite right, no-one led with the 'Who killed Archie Mitchell?' story.

[earthangel]

Since a large percentage of what appears on the mainstream news is fabrication anyway, I doubt it means a whole heck of a lot if they lead with Woods or Afghanistan.

[papagran40]

like the old saying goes " it takes two to tango ? " and I am not condoning what happened , but should the Ladies ( if that is the right word ) not also be in the headlines... ?? .. just a thought...papa.

[Teddyrose54]

Do you know what makes my blood boil with our "news"?

When a soldier is killed, but only gets a mention after the football results.

How does that make his family feel?

Just what are "The News" priorities these days?

[Roundsound]

"Just what are "The News" priorities these days?"

propaganda

[hypn0t0ad]

The biggest selling daily "news"paper in Britain is 'The Sun'. The biggest selling weekly "news"paper in Britain is 'The News of the World'.

Both trashy tabloids, both sell in millions and both are controlled by the most powerful (and unelected) man in the world - Rupert Murdoch. Check out this guy's media empire to see just how far his influence potentially stretches and continues to grow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation#Holdings



(Murdoch almost single-handedly won the Conservatives the General Election in 1992 for example)




Murdoch worked out truths that are now self-evident and he has built an empire out of it. Basically sex, scandal and sport sells (and preferably all 3 in 1) - 'proper' news doesn't stand a chance!


The only answer is for enough people to stop buying the rags but that isn't likely to happen.

Until then it'll be a case of:

• "Terry shagged my Nan..." on page 1
• tits on page 3
• "I saw Terry in my Naan bread..." on page 5
• Sun Bingo etc...

It's a tried and trusted formula

[moonwitch]

All the above is too true, Matt

I stopped buying daily and weekly national papers several years ago.

The only paper I buy now is the local paper so I can get a feel of what is going on outside my front door.

If I want to read anything in a newspaper without buying...I go on-line and read the news I choose for free