In doing so, they make Wilde's most arcane theatrical work feel as luridly immediate as this morning's tabloids (1 40).
Half of respondents ranked it first as a trusted source of balanced and unbiased reporting, ahead of family members (18%), national broadsheet newspapers (11%), social media (5%) and national tabloids (2%).
Per publication, middle-market tabloids (10.3) reported on SHS in vehicles carrying children more frequently than did serious (6.5) or tabloid (6.0) publications.
And this week, 45 years after the first flash of unadorned boob in the tabloid, 29 years after the Labour MP Clare Short attempted to ban the feature, 26 years after the launch editor said he regretted introducing it and an impressive 21 years after the proprietor himself admitted it was well past its time, the Sun at last set on Page 3. Except, of course, it didn't.
Indeed, one of the most memorable things I heard in Abu Dhabi came not from a conference speaker, but a newspaper headline in the local tabloid 7 Days: "UAE readies itself for last barrel of oil".
When coverage was examined by newspaper category, breast cancer had the highest mean number of articles published over the 2-year period, 266 by tabloid, 265 by middle-market and 175 by broadsheet (table 2).
Of the 138 articles meeting our inclusion criteria, 46 were published in 'serious' papers, 32 in 'middle-market tabloids' and 60 in 'tabloids' (table 1).
However, there was little difference in the average number of articles per publication; serious genre publications printed 23.6 per publication, middle-market tabloids printed 24.3, and tabloids printed 22.7.
Other than politicians, Britons also have very low levels of trust in tabloid newspapers (-54), banks (-32), trade unions (-25) and, to a slightly lesser extent, broadsheet newspapers (-10).
Too Much Information The article "A Hacking Case Becomes a War of the Tabloids" (Feb. 1) is ostensibly about the fact that a tabloid newspaper was involved in phone hacking, and it appears to be a summary of the known facts of a public scandal taking place in Britain.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Updated at 10.45am GMT 10.36am GMT Hugh Grant's documentary - not a blockbuster Jake Kanter (@Jake_Kanter) Hugh Grant: Taking on the Tabloids secured 470k (1.9%) viewers the night before #Leveson - less than half C4's slot average.
