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The Sunday Mirror |
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04.03.01 (191 review reads) |
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Advantages: I think I've told you
Disadvantages: Random sport stories
The Mirror is a mile ahead of the other tabloids. Certainly, it shows political bias, but no worse than The Sun. BUT if you open up a copy of The Mirror tomorrow you will see serious stories reported on by serious journalists. In comparison, open up The Sun or The Star and you will see a plain woman with her unattractive breasts hanging out and, normally, a story on how Bill from Weymouth got stuck on the motorway for two hours because there was a tortoise in front of his truck.
As for the political bias argument, it's pretty non-existent. Every newspaper - yes, even The Independent - has at least a slight swing, and The Mirror is as guilty of bad mouthing the Tories as The Sun is of campaigning against Blair. The amazing thing is that, for all the occasions where William Hague humiliates himself, The Mirror are still criticised for slagging him off. The way he acts, they hardly need to be biased.
There's also the question of public interest, and here's a story which may influence those doubting my opinion. Piers Morgan, editor of The Mirror, has complete editorial control over his paper, and can, without pressure, judge alone what stories are of public interest and what can be trashed. However, on The Times and The Sun, it's not quite the same. Pick up a Sun tomorrow (more fool you!) and you will see that editor, by name, is David Yelland. Last year I attended a seminar with Mr Yelland where he effectively admitted that Rupert Murdoch, the Sun's owner, can basically veto (or add in) anything he wants. Need I say more?
If you want an example, think back to when Murdoch tried to buy Man Utd. Public opinion and the other papers slammed it. The Times and The Sun proclaimed it the beginning to a new era in football. How's that for total bollocks???
The one area where the tabloids are all as bad as one another is the sports pages. I make no defence of The Mirror here, only to say that for any tabloid in this
category - don't believe everything you read.
I'm by no means criticising you if you don't read the Mirror, do read The Sun, or whatever else. I'm merely responding to those who claim that reading the Mirror puts you in a general class of clueless working class Labour idiots. I went to a prep school at eight years old where a teacher by the name of Mrs Earle humiliated me in class for saying my mother read the Mirror. I'm merely putting forward a view that, for journalistic values and actual truth, it is a far more reliable read than the other tabloids. Ta for listening.
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