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The Sun |
| Date: |
24/07/01 (19 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Cheap to buy, Easy to Read Format, appeals to Public Opinion
Disadvantages: Regularly Contradicts itself, Delves far too deeply into the lives of celebritys, The majority of its content has no real bearing to internation situations
Now from my title you may think I am going to applaude the sun, that I will tell you a how informative and interesting it is. Unfortunatly nothing could be further from the case.
The sun regularly contradicts itself, in numerous fashions. This is due to its constant pandering to "public opinion" to maintain its position as the most widely circulating paper in the country. It delves into the private lives of celebritys all of gendres, be it sportsmen or the Royal Family, speculating on matters which the general public have no right to know. However The Sun is merely supplying a need, which I will explain in what I believe is a potentially explosive manner later in the review.
The Sun is printed in an easy to read forma containing many visual aids to keep the reader interested. It often introduces humour to even the most serious topics, and often introduces horror stories such as the latest rape victim to help boost circulation. The Sun does however supply a need, which I will now explain in greater detail.
What I am about to write will be incredibly Un-PC, however do not allow this to predjudice yourself against it, for if you read and think about it impassively, you may realise it is true.
The majority of people in this country are not very intelligent. This can be seen by anyone who cares to read the exam result rates at G.C.S.E level, or indeed A-Level. These people lack the intelligence that I am sure many of the people writing and reading these reviews possess, and therefore need a newscript which they can easily relate to and understand. The likes of The Independant and The Guardian are not such papers. This is why we have tabloid papers such as The Sun, The Mirror, and The Star. These papers cater to the whims of public opinion, rather than that of an ideology, which papers such as the Guardian do. They read to be entertained, rather to discover the politcal ramifications of the conflict in Macedonia. The majori
ty of people do not have the attention span or the interest to discover such subjects, prefering to only read about subjects which either directly affect them, or topics that may do in the future.
This is why the likes of The Sun are a national necessity, for they help the common man to understand the world around him a little better, even though this view is distorted by the media's latest public opinion polls.
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- 24/07/01 I agree. The masses don't understand nor want the likes of the Times; they want some easy reading on the way to work, perhaps a topless snapshot, some Tony Blair scandals, and most of all, some celebrity scandals.
Your use of the Macedonia conflict as an example was a good one. However if it is a war or political event involving Britain the masses do want to be informed, even if just out of curiosity. I still agree with your main point though, in such situations these papers are a national necessity; during the Falklands War they stirred up such national pride so easily and helped the people get behind the forces. They delivered the events in an almost comical fashion, such as when we sunk the Argentine ship the Belgrano and The Sun wrote 'Gotcha' on the front page, which the more intellectual among us found quite disturbing. |
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