Interesting to think of tabloid journalism. I made my first trip to London last summer and we stayed at a B&B some distance from the center of London so we had to ride the tube every day for about 40 minutes each. One of the things that struck was that there are two tabloids that are freely and widely distributed for the riders while they make the journey back and forth into and from the downtown area. And nearly everyone on the very crowded trains was reading them (including me--I loved it)!
I wondered if this daily dose of tabloid journalism would affect people when it makes up a large component of one's daily "news" intake. I asked this question of several people and all of them denied that this would have any negative effect on the inhabitants of London in general. Go figure. But a study would be interesting. Any takers? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:14:39 -0400 >From: "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> >Subject: [tips] What's on Your Summer Reading List >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> >Cc: "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> > >Among other things, I'll be taking a look at Matthew Goodman's >"The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, >Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century >New York" which is an account of how tabloid journalism got its start >in New York City with the newspaper New York Sun. It might be of >general interest as it points out the role that the popular media plays >in influencing what people think they know about reality (e.g., the >moon is inhabited by Man-Bats [not to be confused with Bat-Man]). >It is available on Amazon and one can read the reviews there: >http://www.amazon.com/Sun-Moon-Remarkable-Journalists-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0465002579 > >And it is available on books.google.com in limited preview: >http://books.google.com/books?id=0aSGLYbQIEMC&dq=%22Matthew+Goodman%22+%22the+sun+and+the+moon%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=o6IQetVYIt&sig=xsxq9x0AHcsoZyx4g4D4KDTu2mE&hl=en&ei=JDQkSozUEKWxmAf-vbWsCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP1,M1 >or >http://tinyurl.com/nfp7pd > >-Mike Palij >New York University >[email protected] > > > > > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
