The Daily Star and Granny Sex; my reading for the last few weeks.

During the ‘news agenda’ module I’ve had the pleasure of reading the Daily Star aka ‘25p’ on a daily basis. Actually I’m lying already; I’ve bought it now and again because the paper barely differs from one day to the next. At times I’ve even questioned whether it’s worth the 25p that I have to fork out for it. The 0.25 pounds would have bought me 25 penny tubes on my way to school just a few months back!
However I felt inclined to buy it today as the main front page headline wasn’t about Jordan, who had dominated the front page for well over a week because of her return to the ‘I’m a Celebrity’ scene’. However there is no need to panic Britain, as normal service will be resumed tomorrow as she left the jungle today.

Arguably the most bearable part of the paper is that of the sports section, but after reading it in detail today I realised that even that was way lacking in terms of content. For example in the match report of the Stoke vs. Portsmouth game, a game which finished 1-0 I found no details of how the goal was scored. Apparently the goal was a product of a ‘late show’ by Ricardo Fuller. What does that even mean?

Reading the paper backwards I stumbled across the sex adverts section. The biggest advert in there was titled ‘Give it to Granny’ and I immediately wanted to turn the page and forget I ever found it. However I’ve learnt that as a Journalist it is vital to investigate things, so through gritted teeth I had a further look.
I found that out of 35 adverts, 9 of them were of the ‘Granny’ genre of sex chat. Take from that what you want, as I’d rather not comment on this particular topic any further. However I will say that I am confident that this isn’t the reason why readership of the Daily Star have increased by 20% in the last 12 months while all other newspapers are going bust. But I’m sure it’d be amusing to be proved wrong on this one!!