Why Is What Happens In Soaps Considered News?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59857385
My dislike of soaps is well known and I rarely join into threads about them but isn't it a sad indictment of society that these shows amuse and addict so many supposedly "intelligent" people? So much so that the comings and goings are considered news? Are the lives of so many so empty that they must indulge in this depressing drivel?

[pat2604]

https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Famous_people_who_have_appeared_in_%22Coronation_Street%22?from=D

[ToraToraTora]

Tigs, William I is actually directly descended from Alfred the Great, which Is why he got angry at the appointment of Harold. Touched on in one of my DYK threads:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1779265.html

[pat2604]

There will always be television snobs!

[jno]

I think WDYTYA only has to take you back as far as a gateway ancestor: before that hordes of historians and Red Dragon Pursuivants will have done the work for you.

[tiggerblue10]

I wish I could trace where I decended from :o(

[jno]

here maybe, Tiggs?

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Lord_Tyger_(Earth-616)

[gingejbee]

Who made this OP the arbiter of good taste?
One person's "depressing drivel" is another's light entertainment/escapism.

[andy-hughes]

A fair point ginge - one person's piffle is another person's news.

[jno]

he's not really asking whether it's tasteful but whether it's news. But the BBC has posted it under its entertainment section, which is where it belongs.

[New Judge]

//They have to fill up the Entertainments section with something//

//It's in the entertainment section and soaps are entertainment whether we like them or not.//

//It’s Entertainment & Arts news.//

But this was the front page headline in the Sunday Mirror (underneath “Kate at 40 see Page 3" and “Inside Today – Free Slimming World® Recipe Mag”).

[barry1010]

It's an easy way to feel superior, saying you don't watch soaps. Doesn't mean you are

[Barsel]

TTT you wonder why some people watch soaps?
I wonder why some people watch football.
22 people kicking a ball around a field come rain or shine just so they can get the ball in the net.
In the years BC (before Covid) these men would be hugging and kissing and crowds would be cheering and shouting and quite often fighting after the match just because a ball was kicked into the net.
Sorry, I just don't get that at all.

[Mamyalynne]

We weren't linked to the Sunday Mirror but the BBC Arts & Entertainment section.

Front pages often flag up what is within.

[andres]

I always thought it was the other way around. Soaps pick up on current storylines from the news and then play them out. Sometimes good but often rubbish.I have never been a fan of Danny Dyer. He's not a very good actor and I can't stand the way he swaggers about. However each to his own .
A good soap series is just like a book except you never get to the ending.

[THECORBYLOON]

Perhaps the EDs could move this to Media & TV?

[pat2604]

I must admit Danny Dyer gets turned off in our house. Can't stand him.

[New Judge]

//We weren't linked to the Sunday Mirror but the BBC Arts & Entertainment section.//

Yes I know that, mamy. But the question was, "why is it considered news?"

The Mirror evidently did consider it news. So much so that it was the leading article (in fact he only article) on their front page.

[ichkeria]

It’s a piece from the entertainment and arts section
Hardly “we interrupt this program to bring you a news flash …”

[royfromaus]

Why Is What Happens In Soaps Considered News?
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Why is someone's opinion on people watching soaps AB News?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I think Home n Away is a load of old kangaroo poo