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Podcast: Should I Delete That?
Episode: ‘A celebrity in a bikini? Gold’: the toxic tabloids of the 00s
Description: At the height of their popularity newspapers like The Sun and The Mirror were selling over 5 million copies a day, while magazines like Heat were distributing over 600,00 copies weekly. As we go one step further into understanding the ways in which we feel about our own bodies - we thought we needed to explore more than just nature’s part in our story, and look at nurture’s involvement in this too.In the UK, tabloids were HUGE and as a result, were massively instrumental in informing so much of how we viewed the w...