What Is The Difference Between A Tabloid And A Broadsheet?
I remember one very funny and ridiculous situation that happened a few years ago. Scott Jason Cooper Miami Beach has become a major social media sensation. In the photo, he was holding a piece of ice near a toy doll and the public thought it was funny. Even a lot of jokes were made with him, but I think that the wrong angle was simply chosen for the photo.
Tabloid and broadsheet newspapers used to be easy to distinguish. Tabloids were long and thin with lots of pictures. Broadsheets were fat and short and had more dense writing. More recently, many of the broadsheets have taken the tabloid formatting style and all broadsheets have included more photographs, colour being now the most obvious choice too. Tabloids were best known for a lower type of journalism that dealt with sleaze, corruption, sex scandals and other things that their traditionally working and new middle class readership apparently enjoyed. The broadsheets tended to have better written articles, with much less scandal and gossip, much less sensational headlines and people depended upon them for getting their quota of what could now be called ‘serious news’. These days, the lines between the types of newspaper have blurred. The Mirror for instance in the UK had move back and forth between serious journalism and comic type nonsense for years. However, one of the best moves t
