The Herald goes totally tabloid

Posted by JC on August 11th, 2010

Shock! Horror! A disastrous earthquake!

North Island? South Island? The big one’s finally hit Wellington?

No. It’s in VANUATU, for god’s sake!! There apparently wasn’t much damage and no-one was hurt.

So what does the Herald do? Puts a great, blazing, misleading headline up to sell a few papers on the street.

This was once a serious newspaper. Now it’s just a tabloid rag.

BookieMonster August 11th, 2010 at 12:43

Agreed. That made me roll my eyes this morning.
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L2 August 11th, 2010 at 20:06

Yes JC i read that article this morning and was completely shocked!!!

that so disrespectable to people in vanuatu and completely misleading!!…
Tabloid Herald misleads again. @ Brian Edwards Media August 30th, 2010 at 10:39

[...] The front page of the Herald is now designed to sell papers on the street and in dairies. It’s one huge advertisement for itself, and the tabloid headlines are often deliberately misleading (I’ve written about this in an earlier post). [...]
bje September 15th, 2010 at 15:42

perhaps the herald had a premonition.
could this-quite seriously- be related to our terrible earthquake?

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