News of the World

tab-loid - noun 1. A newspaper of small format giving the news in condensed form, usually with illustrated, often sensational material. broad - sheet - noun 1. Chiefly British. a newspaper printed on large paper, usually a respctable newspaper rather than a tabloid. Seems even the dictionary is against News of the World, as at the very search of the broadsheets you get the tabloids cut down to size for their cut throat attitude. I think it's time to get something out in the air from the very beginning though, and that is how much I enjoy the journalism.. or, tabloidism of the weekly newspaper. Even though I'm sure many would argue ...  Read the complete review

I must have had a brainstorm or something. I bought the News of the World instead of my usual Mail on Sunday just so I could write a Dooyoo opinion. Okay it only cost 50p but, quite honestly, after flicking through the pages I know that I'll never buy this rag again. I often get hot under the collar (well bra) when the Mail irritates me, but the News of the World drove me much higher up the annoyance scale. I almost reached boiling point at one stage and my groan made my BoyFriend wonder what I was doing. He looked at me over his Sunday Times with a superior but disappointed gaze. There are all sorts of important issues happening in the world at ...  Read the complete review

Yes it's brash, yes it's a bit vauge with fact and yes it's trashy, but I'm still amazed at the people who turn their nose up at it. The majority of people who sneer at 'gutter press' like this tend to buy broadsheets without actually reading through them but just like to look intellegent when purchasing. If they actually bothered to read both tabloid and broadsheet they would see little difference between the two. Both are bitchy, both are obsessed with celebrity - in the broadsheets cases it's more the dahlings and cads of London's elite scene than Jordan and Lily Cole but the obsession is still the same. I read The Sun, NOTW, Guardian and the ...  Read the complete review

I wrote in a recent review that the newspaper I read during the week is The Sun and as with probably most Sun readers on a Sunday I will read the News of the World. I know a lot of people will criticise my choice of Sunday Newspaper but I really enjoy reading it. Yes it is mainly full of scandal and the latest stories about the current celebrities but I think it is nice to have a newspaper to read that has interesting stories in it. News doesn't always have to mean politics and war. News of the World costs £1 which seems to have gone up a bit lately but still worth it. For your pound you get a newspaper which contains about 100 pages and a free magazine ...  Read the complete review

Another publication from the lower end of the Murdoch stable, the News of the World (NoW, for brevity) has little in the way of redeeming features for those looking for 'serious' news. It used to be known colloquially as the 'News of the Screws', because of the overtly salacious theme of its content. It may still be called that, for all I know. Times move on, but the NoW still panders to the lowest common denominator and below - the - belt story lines, although the angle of attack seems to have moved away from 'unknown nobodies' to 'talent - lite', 'well - know nobodies' who desperately cling to the lower reaches of the sliding scale of celebrity notoriety. ...  Read the complete review