Tabloids

Tabloids When standing in the checkout line at the grocery store we have all caught ourselves reading tabloid headlines such as “Elvis is Alive”, “Batboy Born”, or “Abdominal Snowman Rapes Girl”. We sometimes even find ourselves picking one up and thumbing through the pages as we wait. Since their creation long, long ago society has stereotyped tabloids, their readers, and their writers. They all have held a very negative image. Picture what comes to mind when you think of someone who reads the tabloids on a regular basis, or how about the writers. Well, I am sure you probably get the same mental picture as most of America. I would like to go over these stereotypes of tabloid readers and writers, and dismiss some of them. Society has stereotyped tabloid readers to be unintelligent, low-income, silly people. According to S. Bird ”For Enquirering Minds”, “An element in the stereotype of tabloid readers is that they are lonely misfits, shut-ins, or other people who lead sad lives.” (141) People don’t think that “normal people” read or believe in the tabloids, but that must not be the case. According to statistics compiled by Bird the combined tabloids, tabloid, readers, people, writers, very, reading, read, just, bird, been, working, even, enquirer, world, two, true, time, sloan, should, says, saying, said, one, newspaper, million, media, major, lives, journalists, found, ever, culture, believe, back