Закон в силе - Law Booster I. Дроботенко Ю.Б - 40 стр.

 E.    attitude and way of thinking                  I     L     A      E     M       only on account of their historical interest. The Ada Diurna (Daily Events) in
                                                                                      ancient Rome (lasting to the fall of the Western Empire), were short an-
                                                    T      Y     T      N             nouncements containing official intelligence of battles, elections, games,
                                                                                      fires, religious rites, &c., and were compiled by the actuary officers ap-
 F.    the process of fighting or defending                                           pointed for the purpose; they were kept as public records, and were also
       a case in a civil court of law               T      I     G      I     O       posted up in the forum or other places in Rome, and were sometimes copied
                                                                                      for despatch to the provinces.
                                                     I     L     A      T     N               Acta Diurna = произошедшее за день

7. Fill in the gaps with the word from exercise 6 and translate the sen-
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   tences into Russian.
                                                                                      QUESTION: When and where did the first crime columns appear?
      1. There were risks to her safety from… attacks.
                                                                                      ANSWER: The New York Sun, one of the first penny press newspaper first
      2. The governor of Holloway approved her request to be released with
                                                                                      included a daily police court news column in 1833 and it was really very
         an electronic tag on the home detention… .
                                                                                      popular. Spurred by the success of the penny press a number of weeklies
      3. The criminal’s early release has attracted huge… publicity.
                                                                                      soon emerged. The most famous of which was the National Police Gazette.
      4. The settlement ends more than four years of … on behalf of resi-
                                                                                      As most other newspapers at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Na-
         dents.
                                                                                      tional Police Gazette flourished focusing on corruption, forgeries, sex scan-
      5. The verdict was widely discussed and caused public… .
                                                                                      dals, sports and show business.
      6. Prejudice… prevails in murder cases.
                                                                                              Among early leading incidents in the history of The Times a few may
                                                                                      be more particularly mentioned. In 1840 the Paris correspondent of the paper
                                                                                      (Mr. OReilly) obtained information respecting a gigantic scheme of forgery
Historical background:                                                                which had been planned in France, together with particulars of the examina-
         The word “newspaper”, as now employed, covers so wide a field that           tion at Antwerp of a minor agent in the conspiracy, who had been there, al-
it is difficult, if not impossible, to give it a precise definition. By the English   most by chance, arrested. All that he could collect on the subject, including
Newspaper Libel and Registration Act of 188, it is defined as any paper               the names of the chief conspirators, was published by The Times on the 26th
containing public news, intelligence or occurrences, or any remarks or ob-            of May in that year, under the heading “Extraordinary and Extensive Forgery
servations therein printed for sale, and published periodically or in parts or        and Swindling Conspiracy on the Continent” (Private Correspondence). The
numbers at intervals not exceeding twenty-six days ; and the British Post             project contemplated the almost simultaneous presentation at the chief bank-
Office defines a newspaper as any publication to summarize the wording                ing-houses throughout the Continent of forged letters of credit, purporting to
printed and published in numbers at intervals of not more than seven days,            be those of Glyn & Company, to a very large amount; and its failure appears
consisting wholly or in part of political or other news, or of articles relating      to have been in a great degree owing to the exertions made, and the respon-
thereto or to other current topics, with or without advertisements. In ordinary       sibility assumed, by The Times. One of the persons implicated brought an
practice, the newspapers, as distinguished from other periodicals, mean the           action for libel against the paper, which was tried at Croydon in August
daily or (at most) weekly publications which are principally concerned with           1841, with a verdict for the plaintiff, one covering the damages. A subscrip-
reporting and commenting upon general current events.                                 tion towards defraying the heavy expenses which The Times had incurred
         So far as very early forms of what we now recognize as correspond-           was speedily satisfied.
ing to a newspaper are concerned, involving public reports of news, the Ro-
man Acta Diurna and the Chinese Peking Gazette may be mentioned here, if
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