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:.
The history Tabloid Television.
The ethics of Tabloid Journalism.
Is Australia just the next America?.
Private Vs Public.
Tabloid Television and Gender.
Information Vs Entertainment.
And, What all this says about our current western society. Well well well where do we start, the word "tabloid" itself has several definitions. Believe it or not in 1884 "tabloid- was trademarked as a name for compressed drugs (easy to swallow how ironic). Beginning in 1901, "tabloid" was used to identify a special type of newspaper--one that was condensed, usually half the size of a normal newspaper. .
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.
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