5 days a week I get both The Sun (Scottish version!) and The Daily Record - both of them are as childishly rubbish as each other...
Day after day after endless day we are subjected to lurid tabloid headlines which actually bear no relation to the story behind, unscrupulous tabloid photographer's snaps of b-list female celebs getting out of cars (why are we interested? Because we might see a bit of leg, or a flash of knicker-elastic..that's why?) or pictures of Britney or Christina falling about pissed, or leaving Tesco's with the weekly shopping.
"Charlotte Church In Smoking Shock!" - Who cares? So she smokes? FFS, there must be more interesting thigs to print?
Are we becoming more Americanised (apologies to Americans, I realise you're not all like this!), whereby a 10-second sound-bite is all we are interested in? A quick scan of the headlines is all we want? Anything more and our attention wanders?
No wonder, when the publishers constantly dish up such worthless fare, that we are becoming more and more tolerant of the pap culture that passes for the 4th Estate these days.
And don't get me started on reality TV.....
But the Great Unanswerable Question still remains - Why do so many of us buy this crap?
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