ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 532.

Britain has two kinds of national newspaper: thequality papersand thetabloids.The quality often called"broadsheets" because they are printed on large pages, report national and international news and are serious in tone. They have editorials which comment on important issues and reflect the political views of the paper's editor.

They also contain financial and sports news, features (= articles obituaries) life histories of famous people who have just died, listening

of TV & radio. Programmes, theatre & cinema shows, a crosswords "comic strips", advertisements and weather broadcast". The main quality dailies are :

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Sunday papers include The Sunday Times, The Observer and

The Independent on Sunday". Theyhave more pages than the dailies, supplement, for example motoring, the arts, and a colour magazine.

The tabloids have a smaller page size and report news in less depth. They concentrate on human INTEREST STORIES, AND OFTEN DISCUSS THE PERSONAL LIVES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE.

Many people disapprove of the tabloids and they call them the GUTTER PRESS. The most popular are The Sun, The Mirror, The Express, The Daily Mail, The News of the World, a Sunday tabloid sells more than any other newspapers in Britain.