Is there something wrong with the tabloids?

Ah – where is The National Enquirer these days anyway? My faovrite headline was “Automatic Toilet Shoots Oldster through Ceiling”!

FWIW, the Enquirer was the only/first paper to break the John Edwards love child story.

There’s too many things wrong with the tabloids to list them all here. It is moronic, trashy, dubious, and uninteresting drivel that is a mockery of journalism.

Perhaps tabloids are treading lightly, due to a few of the lawsuits that have been filed against them. I have no interest in tabloids other than hoping Bigfoot or an alien isn’t glaring at me while I stand in line at the grocery store.

LA Earthquake unleashes Monsters from Hell! was my favorite.
It was even better than Batboy Meets with Bush! Helps hunt down Bin Laden!

I remember when they found Goliath’s skull with the rock still stuck in the forehead.

Godd times, good times.

The Weekly World News was one of the greats and had the most outlandish headlines. It is sadly, long gone but Bat Boy will live on in my heart forever.

I don’t understand why anyone would spend money to buy them. I’d be ashamed.

There was a point they would reach, where I would look at the headline and HAVE TO BUY the magazine, because it was so incredibly over the top stupid.
And they were counting on that.

Go to www.theonion.com and read their news articles. They aren’t like the tabloids (with aliens etc), but they are fictional news articles that are witty and very funny.

I didn’t know tabloids were ever good.

I think you’re onto something, @LostInParadise. I think this is another sign. Of the end of the world as we know it. The tabloids must know something we don’t. Perhaps their editors are like rats abandoning the ship. Seeking ways—perhaps in time capsules—to avoid the cataclysm to happen in 2012.

They have secret knowledge. The aliens and big feets have given it to them, and they are refusing to publish it. They focus on silly things like Brangela or reality TV. They are hiding something. Definitely. They know something they aren’t saying. We should do something. We should raid their offices and find out what they’re hiding.

Bring me Big Foot or bring me death!

Tabloids have been around forever.Just don’t pay attention to them.Most people don’t.

“Is there something wrong with the tabloids?”

Yes, Everything. We are such a needy (and nosy) society.

Is this a trick question..?

I must say, I had a subscription to Weekly World News in high school. It was great entertainment, with Batboy and Bigfoot and the lot. But the rest? They’ve always been trash. And not even trash that knew they were trash and played on it.

Yes…the thing with tabloids, is that they’re looking for a story..instead of the story coming to them…so they will almost make up anything.

My favourite headline was “WWII bomber found on moon” followed a week later by “WWII bomber missing from moon”.

You’re complaining that tabloids are printing too much news…..?

I have no way of knowing if what they are writing is any more accurate than in the past, but given what they are writing about, I don’t really care.

No. There is something wrong with depending on them for your facts.

We should ask:

Is there something wrong with the people buying the tabloids?