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This is a normal post I'm worried. The Daily Mail is clearly not to blame for doing what it does.
It's giving its audience precisely what it wants. Lots of trashy shit, misleading racist tripe and pointless non-news articles.
But this means that a truly massive proportion of this country is completely fucktarded because they're buying into it.
Oh no, I think my head's about to blow up :(
 (I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post most people lead meaningless lives
All kids know it - they call such people meanies.
 (I helped save b3ta! buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 12:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Inevitably, someone's going to mention "Flat Earth News";
but you could go back further - at least as far back as Hoggart, in 1957, in The Uses of Literacy (London: Penguin Classics, 2009):
"We need to hold fast to the nature of popular publication - that they are now the products of large-scale commercial organizations, that they belong not to the history of the Press properly speaking, nor to affairs, nor to politics, but to entertainment; that their handling of 'opinion' is largely irrational manipulation for the purposes of entertainment, that when one of these papers says, 'We give the facts... astounding...', this is not so much a statement of their attitude as an entertainer's patter, of the same order as, 'There's nothing up my sleeve.'" (p 216)
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 13:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post What wonderful writing

(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 13:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nice quote.
What's the book like? Had a quick look on Amazon and it looks to be more of a class study as opposed to something purely about the press (which probably interests me more).
 (I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 14:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's a bit of both really

(I helped save b3ta! $$ ✅, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 14:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's not much about the press specifically;
it's about popular culture more generally. And a lot of his examples are fictionalised, because his publishers were scared of getting sued if he used real ones.

Ho hum.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 15:53, , Reply)