Newspaper reports

hansi

Why, when newspapers report a tragedy such as the couple who were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes in their boat,or any court case, do they have to print the value of their homes. It makes not one iota of differennce to the report, so why do they do it? ( Rant over;))

oneye14

If you imagine every journalist has a daily target to meet, there should be no surprise most Newspapers have a great deal of irrelevent detail in print.

The greater the daily column / inches the better the journalist ?!

battleborn

Page 3 of the sun is a great way to start the day

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System

battleborn wrote: »

Page 3 of the sun is a great way to start the day

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Is this the first pair of breasts emoticon to appear on MSE?

hansi

I was talking about newspapers! I don't regard The Sun as such!

Exile_geordie

Generally its to fill uup space so that the paper doesnt have to have too much blank space around.

Another who thinks they are better than everyone else by demonising britains best selling newspaper eh? Bully for you

Azari

This is something I have thought for many, many, years.

When at school we were asked, in English, to write a piece in the style of a newspaper story. The spurious house price thing was my primary means of making it sound as if it had come from a paper.

Another news moan: Why is it that whenever anyone is murdered, it is always referred to as a 'brutal' murder. Arguably all murders are brutal - even if not, probably only those using a painless toxin could be considered otherwise.

gb12345

Chantel 21 (34C-24-33) says she thinks that the Korean peninsular is on a knifepoint.

peter_the_piper

gb12345 wrote: »

Chantel 21 (34C-24-33) says she thinks that the Korean peninsular is on a knifepoint.

Where is it by the way?

battleborn

gb12345 wrote: »

Chantel 21 (34C-24-33) says she thinks that the Korean peninsular is on a knifepoint.

She sounds like a hottie!

Azari

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Where is it by the way?

On a knife-edge.

(Maybe Chantel 21 (34C-24-33) is actually a lot more clever and subtle than she is being given credit for and is implying that the situation is one stage worse than a knife-edge.)