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Newspapers. Are they?

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mollie Tue 08-Dec-15 16:37:08

It seems to me that our daily newspapers are more about opinion pieces and space filling than actually reporting factual news.

I read several of the national dailies online where they are free so the problem may be the need to fill web space but even actual paper editions appear full of writer's opinions rather than reporting the news. I wouldn't mind if the opinions reflected what is actually happening here in the real world but very often they don't. Pundits and forecasters are often wrong and the doom and gloom sensationalism is enough to drive me to drink. Have newspapers always been like this or is it modern journalism?

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overthehill Tue 08-Dec-15 16:54:38

Well over the past couple of weeks there was pages and pages of the atrocities in France. Too much to take in for me.

I do find it annoying when you have a double page spread of for instance this celebrity looks like that celebrity, just stuff to fill the paper up.

I admit to rarely reading all through the paper. The headlines plus a bit more are enough for me to get the general gist of it. The sports pages could go straight in the bin as neither myself or DH ever read them.

As to whether they have always been like this, I cannot really remember.

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