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?

All newspapers cover some serious issues but how they cover the issues is usually the problem. They don’t get an unbiased approach to the information across. The cheaper newspapers seem to appeal to the masses in the UK. These paper are not the best in relaying information to the masses, this is because of the way the articles are written. The article does not let the person decide for themselves how they feel about the serious issue. It will try to influence the person to think in a certain way that the newspaper thinks. Broadsheet papers report the information in a unbiased way that allows the reader to decided for themselves how they feel about situations.

The Sun is a tabloid newspaper which reports more popular stories about celebrities and TV programmes. These seem to sell more paper which is why the price maybe lower than a broadsheet. The Sun etc have such a control over a large population of the country that I think they should take more responsibility for letting people know more about serious issues. All newspapers are businesses but it seems that the Sun has less morals as a business. The Sun is very focused on selling papers and not worrying about reparations they are ruining. The broadsheets know they maybe selling less but they know they are telling information that is correct and letting people have their own ideas.

The ‘low budget entertainment’ shows do seem to have too much of an influence over the population of the UK. All of these programmes are entertainment which is the trend with the newspapers too. People seems to get to the point where they are obsessed with these programmes and can not miss one episode and this is not good. These programmes do not deal with any serious issues. What does it really matter if a character gets married in one of the soaps, it is not really life. Also the X factor does not deal with any serious issues, the producers are all about getting money from having so many people watching the programme. Sometimes the votes from the judges are swayed to get more people to watch and the viewer figures up. We are in desperate need to change the way that Britain is and showing people they need to get on TV to future their career and earn lots of money isn’t really a positive influence. The X factor does not influence people to look into the serious issues of the War or poverty, the people that watch these shows don’t seem to care about these issues. Which is a shame as it is a large amount of the population in the UK.