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Tabliod Journalism

When exploring the article Tabloid Television by Catherine Lumby and John O’Neil the overall main debate in the article was that traditional tabloid quality categorisation of the current affairs television programs should be abandoned in favour of an across-the-board analysis of the impact of competition and new technologies on the formats of those programs. In other words; Lumby and O’Neil believe, in between a televisual world where divisions of public and private spaces and news and entertainment were starkly delineated, and one in which those boundaries are now collapsing. The article seeks to illustrate how and why this has happened by tracing the history of a boom in television programming which began in the United States in the mid 1970’s and its ultimate impact on television journalism in Australia.

Furthermore the article can be broken down into components topics of the following, which I will be discussing separately, then inviting you to debate:

Ø The ethics of Tabloid Journalism.

Ø Is Australia just the next America?

And, What all this says about our current western society. Well


These papers were commonly identified with boisterous, brief news content, an abundance of pictures, some fiction, and often they blatantly appealed to the human interest in crime, sex, and disaster. One definition of tabloid from Webster's College Dictionary describes it as luridly or vulgarly sensational. Sensationalism is the use of material intended to produce a startling or scandalous effect, especially one pertaining to the senses.

A murder victim's mother was harassed by a reporter demanding an interview, who defaced her property when she refused to talk to him. The mother of David Wilson, the tourist that had been murdered by the Khmer Rouge, was also subjected to the same sort of treatment - "one (reporter) yelled through the door, another climbed on the roof to walk across it and look into her courtyard." Basic human decency requires one to respect others' right to grieve in private - such insensitive treatment, especially at a time when one is most vulnerable, is unacceptable.

Yankee cultural imperialism they should consider this: if

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Approximate Word count = 1769
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)


  

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