Blogprompt 4

To what extent do the best selling UK newspapers cover stories related to serious issues? To what extent would you think that it is their role to do so? In your opinion does the tabloid media and 'low budget entertainment' (reality shows, soaps) have too much power and influence in this country?

The best selling newspapers are mainly tabloids such as 'The Sun' which don't address/focus on serious issues in detail but more more sports, celebrities, reality tv shows etc. This is likely because many people reguard the serious issues as not very entertaining, don't care or simply don't understand them. As shown in the Audit Bureau of Circulations 2009 more serious newspapers such as the 'Guardian' or 'The Independent' are not included in the top six best selling newspapers. This does show that a lot of the nation arnt interested in serious issues. Also though it could be down to the fact that tabloid newspapers are much cheaper to buy for example 30p for 'The Sun' whereas is about a pound for 'The Independent' on a sunday.

It is quite worrying to see that tabloid newspapers sell the most as this results in that newspaper having a lot of power over the nation and too much influence over the nation. This also means that many people in this nation have a lack of knowledge on more importent issues such as climate change. This is likely to mean issues such as climate change get worse as people will not improve their actions to help stop climate change etc.

In my opinion though tabloid newspapers shouldn't need to cover serious issues as the person buying that newspaper is likely to not be interested in that issue, and in covering these issues this could result in that person buying a competitor newspaper. The more serious newspapers such as 'The Guardian' and 'The Independent' etc should cover all serious issues in their newspaper.

In conclusion tabloid newspapers, low budget tv (x factor etc) and celebrities do have too big an influence/power on the nation. Although i do feel that the person buying this newspaper wouldnt buy a serious newspaper even if there were no tabloid newspapers as they wouldn't find these newspapers entertaining enough. This is why i would suggest that taboild newspaper cover less serious issues with other newspapers covering the serious issues.