From the discussion we had in the class, the evidence showed the top selling newspapers in the United Kingdom are the tabloid papers. These are papers that mostly seek to inform the general public of peoples ways of living. These papers will for several days serialise and report inappropriate conducts of public personalities and or famous people. I think the editors of these papers are in the business of making money and sustaining the organisation, rather than practise journalism. I think the public prefer to read gossips, and especially those that involve famous personalities in the UK. I think most people in the United Kingdom are less interested about what happens in most places of the world. Ironically, many of these issues should be reported in the newspapers, but for the fear that the public may not buy the newspapers, Journalists, especially those who work in the tabloid organisations devote most of their time pursuing stories that involve private lives of famous persons.
The broadsheet newspapers attempt to report serious issues, and those papers such as Financial Times and The Times that concentrate on reporting important issues are overlooked by the general public. Although the Times in recent years reduced the size of the paper to the same as those of the tabloid, but because of its content, it has not received patronise from the public.
As a result of the views that I have stated above, most people who read the tabloid will have very little knowledge of the many serious issues that are happening in the world.
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