The Sun, The News of the World and The Daily Mirror are among the most popular read newspapers in the United Kingdom. Their celebrity gossip, their light-hearted headlines always sends a smile to millions of faces everyday of the week. But in some cases, they splash out news headlines which are to be talked about for weeks and weeks after they published the "exclusive" articles.
In May 2010, NOTW went undercover and publically humiliated Sarah Ferguson, better known to us as Prince Andrew's ex-wife and the Duchess of York. She owed hundreds and thousands of pounds and the paper's undercover reporter disguising himself as an Indian businessman filmed her gaining access to her ex-husband for an exchange of £500,000. It was a move which failed miserably as she was forced to apologise and at the same time put a lot of pressure on the royal family to react in an orderly manner.
A few weeks ago, the same newspaper had done the same thing again. Only this time they filmed a man (or men) who they believed to have ordered numerous Pakistan cricket players to bowl in a particular way at varius stages of the match. At the moment, four players have been questioned by police. They are convinced that they have done no wrong doing. It's an incident which is still on-going yet still caused a big dark shadow over the future of cricket. In my opinion the sport is not in a crisis. I believe that cricket has always been an entertaining sport and if Serie A of Italy football is still rated as one of the most entertaining leagues in Europe, then cricket, watched by millions across the globe would have nothing to worry about. In 2006, Italy's World Cup success was over-shadowed by a match fixing scandal involving huge teams like Juventus and AC Milan.
But this England v Pakistan tie has always been a controversial one. In 2006, there was an incident involving ball tampering. It caused a huge kerfuffle on the future of cricket. Players were banned for long periods of time but we were able to move on then, so we can do the same now once we know the final verdict of the present events.
NOTW are not the only one who love scandals, The Sun has their fair shares of stirring up trouble. Earlier this year we had footballers John Terry and Ashley Cole guilty of adultery. Now Ashley Cole has divorced X-Factor judge Cheryl Tweedy (which she now prefers to be called) and John Terry has sorted his difference with his wife Toni Poole, The Sun now has someone else they'd like to humiliate - Wayne Rooney.
It's not as if England's year was a good one, then someone in their team had to spoil it. These headlines put a huge bruise on the national team performances in the World Cup! The headlines made sure that Rooney and his wife Coleen have troubles "backstage". He's been convicted of sleeping with a prostitute for £1,200 a night.
It's happened before. He slept with another prostitute dressed up as catwoman when he and Coleen were just going out seriously. It may have happened but why on earth are the tabloids doing to personalities who are being looked up by children who want to play as good as the football and cricket stars.
It is not fun anymore. At first it may have been brilliant journalism but now I'm looking at them and thinking if it's any need to make headlines like these? Is it really necessary when they have other, more serious headlines to announce? And I'm not talking about "Did you see those weirdo's on the X-Factor" or "Ooh, Gavin Henson is in Strictly". It maybe entertainment but no one really cares.
Unless I'm old fashioned and think that the Pakistan floods is way more important and their aid is much needed than Peggy Mitchell dying in Eastenders. Perhaps, that's what society in the 21st Century is telling us. We're living in a celebrity world. We're living in the Big Brother world and Katie Price would be our next Prime Minister if we had a choice.
In May 2010, NOTW went undercover and publically humiliated Sarah Ferguson, better known to us as Prince Andrew's ex-wife and the Duchess of York. She owed hundreds and thousands of pounds and the paper's undercover reporter disguising himself as an Indian businessman filmed her gaining access to her ex-husband for an exchange of £500,000. It was a move which failed miserably as she was forced to apologise and at the same time put a lot of pressure on the royal family to react in an orderly manner.
A few weeks ago, the same newspaper had done the same thing again. Only this time they filmed a man (or men) who they believed to have ordered numerous Pakistan cricket players to bowl in a particular way at varius stages of the match. At the moment, four players have been questioned by police. They are convinced that they have done no wrong doing. It's an incident which is still on-going yet still caused a big dark shadow over the future of cricket. In my opinion the sport is not in a crisis. I believe that cricket has always been an entertaining sport and if Serie A of Italy football is still rated as one of the most entertaining leagues in Europe, then cricket, watched by millions across the globe would have nothing to worry about. In 2006, Italy's World Cup success was over-shadowed by a match fixing scandal involving huge teams like Juventus and AC Milan.
But this England v Pakistan tie has always been a controversial one. In 2006, there was an incident involving ball tampering. It caused a huge kerfuffle on the future of cricket. Players were banned for long periods of time but we were able to move on then, so we can do the same now once we know the final verdict of the present events.
NOTW are not the only one who love scandals, The Sun has their fair shares of stirring up trouble. Earlier this year we had footballers John Terry and Ashley Cole guilty of adultery. Now Ashley Cole has divorced X-Factor judge Cheryl Tweedy (which she now prefers to be called) and John Terry has sorted his difference with his wife Toni Poole, The Sun now has someone else they'd like to humiliate - Wayne Rooney.
It's not as if England's year was a good one, then someone in their team had to spoil it. These headlines put a huge bruise on the national team performances in the World Cup! The headlines made sure that Rooney and his wife Coleen have troubles "backstage". He's been convicted of sleeping with a prostitute for £1,200 a night.
It's happened before. He slept with another prostitute dressed up as catwoman when he and Coleen were just going out seriously. It may have happened but why on earth are the tabloids doing to personalities who are being looked up by children who want to play as good as the football and cricket stars.
It is not fun anymore. At first it may have been brilliant journalism but now I'm looking at them and thinking if it's any need to make headlines like these? Is it really necessary when they have other, more serious headlines to announce? And I'm not talking about "Did you see those weirdo's on the X-Factor" or "Ooh, Gavin Henson is in Strictly". It maybe entertainment but no one really cares.
Unless I'm old fashioned and think that the Pakistan floods is way more important and their aid is much needed than Peggy Mitchell dying in Eastenders. Perhaps, that's what society in the 21st Century is telling us. We're living in a celebrity world. We're living in the Big Brother world and Katie Price would be our next Prime Minister if we had a choice.
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