Poetic Justice and The News of The World
Although foreigners associate the British media with the BBC drama classics, The Times of London, and the intellectual Radio 4, this does not represent the mass media in the UK . It is impossible for Israelis (for example) to grasp the sullied lowness of the popular media culture in Britain . The “tabloids” in Britain are half-sized newspapers splashed with naked girls, sordid scandals about the currently famous, and the football results. The IQ of their intended readership is aimed at around 6 years old (adults). This media sector is referred to as the “gutter press”. Whereas The Times , for example, has a circulation of around 500,000 – the Sun (popular press rag) sells over 3 million copies a day. And so the scandal about the News Of The World (aka “News of the Screws”) , by far the most popular and scurrilous Sunday newspaper in Britain, that they have been tapping phones and voice mails for decades, even of murder victims, and of British soldiers killed i...