And the News of the World is gone!


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News international is getting rid of the news of the world, as a result of this weeks events.


News of the World.

Liberty's Edge

The BBC said this was their main news story today. I'm like: Who cares about tabloids?

Do English-types read tabloids more than Americans?


I'm not sure that "tabloids" means the same thing in British as it does in American.

I think in British terms, both the Boston Herald and the New York Post would qualify as tabloids. (That might not help since you're on the Left Coast.)

Liberty's Edge

Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:

I'm not sure that "tabloids" means the same thing in British as it does in American.

I think in British terms, both the Boston Herald and the New York Post would qualify as tabloids. (That might not help since you're on the Left Coast.)

:)

You mean like Us Weekly? Cause I use stuff like that

Spoiler:
for FIRE!!!!


I don't know US Weekly. I'm also not British, so maybe I should shut up.


Gark the Goblin wrote:
Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:

I'm not sure that "tabloids" means the same thing in British as it does in American.

I think in British terms, both the Boston Herald and the New York Post would qualify as tabloids. (That might not help since you're on the Left Coast.)

:)

You mean like Us Weekly? Cause I use stuff like that** spoiler omitted **

The news of the world is the most successful newspaper in the UK. It is a god aweful rag, and one of the major cash cows of the Murdock empire. It basically funds the Times and Sunday Times by it's existence.

Tabloids are very different here in the UK, the Sun(another Murdock paper, like news of the world, the times and the sunday times) can quiet accurately claim to make or break election campaigns. This is a major victory for media plurality. Now if we can just stop his takeover of BSKYB.


Ha, ha! I was right.

The Boston Herald is also a Murdoch paper.

[Pats self on back]


Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:

Ha, ha! I was right.

The Boston Herald is also a Murdoch paper.

[Pats self on back]

News corp is like cancer ;) It gets everywhere.

Liberty's Edge

Yay, fellow Murdoch-haters!


Isn't murdoch worse than cancer?

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