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Does anyone wonder if the Newspaper Bosses are even Greedier than MPs?
It seems that in every Football World Cup run up they understand that they will sell more newspapers if they throw as much dirt as possible at people that will be part of the team attempting to do well there. Lets face it, for as much as the behaviour of John Terry cannot be condoned, it must be said that a footballer "playing away" with another woman is hardly headline news, nor is it anything that a huge percentage of those in the public eye have done. Yet the entire story is dramatised like the Sun is about to crash into the moon.
I am interested as to what the public think, rather than those purely after more money. I.e. The News of the World
Right .. So what the majority are saying is that they are gossips, more interested in non-news than anything worth reading, fair enough, each to their own.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The Sun and the News of the World cater for people who cannot understand real news events and are more like comics than newspapers.
Terry's mistake, apart from bonking the Chelsea bike, was to try to smother the story getting out. The newspapers are getting their revenge.
In answer to your opening question, newspaper bosses have always been greedier than MP's - look at the likes of Maxwell and Murdoch.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
But that's the exact point! Newspaper sales are going through the roof because the general public want to read about it. The News of the World is a business that is out to make money, it's not a public information leaflet. If we, the general public were not interested in people's private lives, and shunned news stories that implicated our football hero's in sordid affairs, they wouldn't print it. It's as simple as that. I personally find it in bad taste, but obviously millions don't.
Newspaper bosses may well be as greedy as MP's, but they'd probably be subjected to the same punishment as the rest of us if they'd committed fraud at the taxpayers expense, unlike MP's...
- pluginmaybeLv 71 decade ago
Sun/Notw are owned by an Aussie. Why should he care about the England football side?
And there are a lot of people about who just don't like Football
What's just as baffling though is why JT decides to sell his story to the sister paper of the one that exposed him in the first place ?
- r3gg3_zalLv 41 decade ago
Controversy catches the eye.
Rio Ferdinand seen outside of Play Barn with his children
How is that even close to being gossipal
John Terry scoring away from Bridge... now thats interesting :)
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Reporters don't CREATE the dirt - they just DIG it up!
They might be greedy, but that is part of their work, to make money for their newspapers. The public has the choice of not buying newspapers, but we have to pay taxes so that MPs can use it to line their pockets.
