Comment by esseph
6 days ago
The US tabloids are awful. Any checkout isle at a Walmart, Dollar General, etc is just littered with them, right next to the disposable lighter packs and chewing gum.
6 days ago
The US tabloids are awful. Any checkout isle at a Walmart, Dollar General, etc is just littered with them, right next to the disposable lighter packs and chewing gum.
But nobody reads them in the US[1], and many are about celebrities or cryptids or what-have-you rather than current events or private citizens. There's definitely a cultural difference here.
[1] UK has 1/4th of the population of the US but The Sun has 4x the circulation of The New York Post. The Daily Mirror every day puts out 4x the number of papers that The National Enquirer puts out in a week.
Sure, I did say they were gross, but they just seem to mostly cause less concrete damage. Not sure why.
they aren't nearly as toxic as the UK tabloids.
Also, I never hear anybody talk about what the tabloids are reporting. There's a lot of social stigma attached to them in the US.