Posh Spice

[smurfboy]

Publishers put what people want to read in the papers - it's as simple as that. If people weren't interested they wouldn't publish it. I remember hearing a Radio 4  programme at the time of Posh and Becks' wedding. A group of pseudo-intellectuals were pontificating about how awful it was that The Sun had featured the wedding on its front page instead of what was happening in Kosovo. I nearly laughed out loud. The Sun is a tabloid, celeb weddings etc. are the sort of story it was designed to cover!

[Cherry_Ripe]

Publishers put what people want to read in the papers - it's as simple as that.QUOTE]

I don't think that's strictly true. Buying most things these days is a compromise, you don't get 100% of what you want.

In the case of a newspaper I don't mind spending a few pence if there is a particular article / puzzle / supplement I want if that means I only read half the paper or maybe even less. Sometimes I buy a paper just for the DVD with it. Yes, I have increased their sales for one day but it doesn't mean want to read their paper.

[smurfboy]

It would be nigh on impossible to get a paper that was 100% what you wanted, 'these days' or not! We would need 57 million daily newspapers to do that!

[kevvosa]

Im surprised there isnt a newspaper called Daily Porn yet. 

[loulou]

Isn't it the Sunday sport.

[oldspice]

I expect celebrity gossip in The Sun but I don't expect it in The Daily Telegraph or The Guardian.

[chocolate chick]

Publishers put what people want to read in the papers - it's as simple as that. If people weren't interested they wouldn't publish it. I remember hearing a Radio 4  programme at the time of Posh and Becks' wedding. A group of pseudo-intellectuals were pontificating about how awful it was that The Sun had featured the wedding on its front page instead of what was happening in Kosovo. I nearly laughed out loud. The Sun is a tabloid, celeb weddings etc. are the sort of story it was designed to cover!

There is some truth in what you say Smurfy. Heat magazine is a top seller every week.

The OK edition which covered the Beckhams wedding was something like their all time biggest selling issue.

But like Oldspice stated, you wouldn't expect to see celeb trash in the Telegraph or the Guardian.

[oldspice]

But it's there!