British Newspapers.

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The Daily Mirror has never really recovered from Maxwell. One problem has been that its various editors since the early '80's haven't really understood their readers and what they want in a newspaper.

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It's been wobbly since Labour got into power I imagine.

Long before then.

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The problem isn't so much the extent to which it serves as a Party cheerleader (I doubt many readers have a problem with that; it's a partisan paper, everyone knows that) but the way it's done (too crude, and often too patronising (ie; even for a tabloid) as well). A lot of their politics coverage is focused on stuff that Mirror readers aren't much interested in and with not enough on the sort of stuff that they actually are interested in (but this has been the case for a few decades now).

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The moralistic tone taken over that is still at odds with the paper's readers.

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It also has too much celebrity news and not enough sport. I think one problem is that successive editors and owners have got it into their heads that Mirror readers want a sort of leftish Sun.

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Jim Hacker: "Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers:
- The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
- The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
- The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;
- The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
- The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
- The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
- And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."
Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read the Sun?"
Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."

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on the subject on newspapers in australia, the highest-selling one in the land, Melbourne's own Herald Sun (aka The Hun, Herald Scum, IRBFIMES [i'd rather be ed in my eye sockets]) at least has the decency not to describe itself as a newspaper. It is, officially, a 'News Pictorial'. Basically, front page with something like "MUM'S AGONY" and a story about how 17 year old Tareesja-Marie can't cope with the fact that her son, Keylin-Brock got him arm broken when he fell off a playkit in their neighbour's back garden and that she's suing, with a telephone number for the legal cost appeal; followed by three pages of ads, then a page reading "EAGLE CAUGHT IN NET NAUGHTINESS" detailing how a footballer was looking up porn, then two pages of 'politics' "HOW LABOR PLANS TO SCREW CARERS OUT OF THEIR MONEY", followed by "MIDDLE-CLASS WELFARE CAUSING INTEREST RATES TO RISE: RBA"; then the opinion pages, a few pages of classifieds, half a page of world news with an ad for a TV Travel show below it, and then 80-odd pages of sport.

Give me the Spencer Street Soviet, please; or at least The Australian...

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