Reading and understanding newspapers. Пыж А.М. - 9 стр.

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total circulation of about 14 million on weekdays and about 17 million on
Sundays. There are about 130 daily and Sunday newspapers, 1300 weekly
papers and some 7000 periodical publications.
British national papers 912 national dailies and 11 national Sundays) are
distributed nationwide. National papers together sell more copies that 70
provincial papers combined.
The press is not subject to state control or censorship and is free to
comment on matters of public interest, subject to the ordinary laws of the land
including those of libel and contempt of court.
Much of the press is owned by large publishing groups, some of which
have interests ranging over the whole field of publishing and the mass media in
Great Britain and in other countries. Some have shares in British independent
television and radio. There are. However, some safe guards against undue
concentration of ownership in the means of mass communications.
The national dailies and distributed six days a week. They are usually
classed as either “quality” or popular.
The Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The
Independent, are known as quality papers or broadsheets.
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So, quality papers
aim at presenting the reader with a full and serious coverage of important home
and foreign events. They examine the subject more deeply and give more
information than the popular papers. All the quality papers use the large, full-
scale broadsheet format, they style is clear-cut and the language is
straightforward, free from slang and sensation.
Apart from a classification of style and ways of presentation there is also
the division between political attitudes. Although newspapers are not directly
linked to political parties, there are strong connections. The majority of papers
– even those which carry little serious news – are conservative in outlook. Of
the six quality dailies The Daily Telegraph (founded in 1855) is strongly
conservative. It is a broadsheet published on 28 pages with 5 per cent of the
whole space given over to the pictures.
The Guardian (The Manchester Guardian until 1956) is a broadsheet with
left of center political standpoint. It is liberal in outlook though it doesn’t represent
the official view of the Liberal Party. Note that Manchester Guardian was
launched in 1821. the Guardian enjoys particular popularity amongst those readers
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Broadsheet is a size and format for newspapers and a descriptive term applied to papers
which use that format rather than the smaller tabloid format. Historically, broadsheets were
developed when in 1712 a tax was placed on British newspapers based on the number of their
pages. Broadsheet newspapers tend to be more intellectual in content than their tabloid
counterparts, examining stories in more depth and carrying sensationalist celebrity stories less
often. However, while this distinction is widely used, some tabloid papers - particularly The
Daily Mail and The Daily Express - point out that the term "tabloid" strictly refers only to the
paper size, and often use phrases such as "broadsheet quality in a tabloid format"

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