What do you think of people who read tabloids?

Question

Especially those who read the Daily Mail.

I do mean tabloid in content, not size. So I'd class The Times as a broadsheet even though it's physically a tabloid because its content is more like that of a broadsheet.

Answer 1

The Daily Mail? I look down upon those people. I read the Daily Sport

;-P

Answer 2

Well what do you read? What would you class as Tabloid newspapers? What would you class as Broadsheet newspapers? Don't half of the Broadsheet newspapers own the tabloids? Isn't the Sun owned by The Times? Is your question more about left and right wing papers? Basically most people will buy whats put in front of them. I will read the Sun, The Mirror, the Daily Express, The Daily Mail, The Times, the Telegraph, but not the Gaurdian. I draw the line at a paper which states that to be British is to racist.

All of the Papers are different in their own right. Are you implying that different classes read different papers? For example, more working class people will read The Daily Star, but turn their nose up at The Times. For example if I want to read a fun newspaper I would read the Sun and Laugh at Dear Deirdre, but If I want a more imformative read I would read The Times.
What do you think, do you think that the Mail is for right wing little Englanders and The Guardian is for left wing nutters? What do you think is a fairly balanced newspaper - The Independant? Even that newspaper has certain political aligances. People are people what ever their choice of reading material. Newspapers all have political alligancies. The news can be twisted from which ever point of view you are, it can be twisted to the left or the right. Some people find the Broadsheets to heavy and prefer lighter tabliod papers. Are you implying that Daily Mail readers are all Wankers? I could say that all Gaurdian readers are liberal tossers. The Daily Mail sells - what, maybe 3 million copies a day. I can't judge that many people and nor do I want to!

Answer 3

I love this question! I will be honest but I don't wish to offend these are just my personal opinions & feelings. I would not date any1 who read a tabloid paper the thought that someone's conversationational highlight is who's taken their clothes off or who has taken drugs or what the WAG's are doing is a terrible display of the how shallow peoples lives have become. There is a whole world out there with the most amazing people doing things for both the plant & mankind and not for own personal profit or gain. Look at my name it is what I do for a big Company, I love a piece of gossip like the next person! But I will not support tabloid papers, tabloid television or magazines - these are taking the mass's of the under/average educated for an absolute ride. They are rubbing their hands together thinking mugs! I will also be honest people do judge other people by the paper you read if you are reading The Sun with an average vocabulary of a 10 year old don't be suprised to be treated as a child!
Ps The Times and Independent in tabloid size are called Compacts!

Answer 4

I have never been the type of person that reads one newspaper and I often pick up one that I think looks interesting or suits my mood. Sometimes only the News of the world will do!

Tabloids are fun if you don t believe all you read as long as you don t let a journalist tell you what to think.

Serious papers are good to when I am in the right mood. But its wrong to judge someone by what they read. The content of their character is far more important. Otherwise its just plain snobbery! Thick people can read the Times! Not sure if a humanist can read the daily Mail without getting upset though.

Answer 5

before i got the net, i used to read the papers in my favourite coffee shops. i used to read everything, both tabloids and broadsheets, and then somehow try to glean some truth/intelligence from what i had read.

the tabloids may be comic books, but at the same time, they are sometimes right, and the broadsheets sometimes are just guilty of navel gazing/bitchiness.

Answer 6

I try not to think of people who read the tabloids...especially the Daily Mail

Answer 7

Ok, I happened to see two guys, scanning the front page of a tabloid and relenting on how this and that had happened and all the things about UFOs... (I really had to laugh when I heard they believed in them...I still wonder..IS Micheal Jackson REALLY an alien??!!! The answer is in the STAR ROTFLOL!!!!).

I also had a boss on the turn I was on, and he empatically believe EVERYTHING that was in the Tabloids, to the point that he was willing to come to blows, about UFOs and all that nonesense!!

I though that was outrageous and silliness to the point of bearing on idiocy!!

But, the uneducated will believe in everything that some one wants to make up, and since its in PRINT, they believe it HAS to be REAL...

No wonder everyone believes in the conspiracy of 9/11 and all that nonesense!!! We REALLY need to educate our youth, so they will be responsible adults and not fall for this line of tripe....

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 8

I think that people who do that are slowly brainwashing themselves into believeing the crap that is in them. Eventually they get to the point where they are emotionally driven by what is said about their favorite celebrity and then it eventually affects their lives. I once had a coworker who took a week off simply because of the story that they ran about Drew Barrymore. She said that she was so upset about the "shocking news" that she could not even think straight.

Answer 9

I think people who read tabloids are brill as I am one of them!
I read them for their entertainment value,bit like coming on Answers!

Answer 10

Most of them are probably reading for entertainment. I must admit that I have read The National Enquirer, and the story I read was later on the news.