What matters most for all newspaper publishers is making a profit. They give a lot of coverage to scandal and details of people’s private lives. The desire to attract more readers has meant that in the twentieth century sometimes even the broadsheets in Britain look rather ‘popular’. The tabloids were printed on much smaller pages which were much easier to turn.į. You had to have expert turning skills to be able to read more than one page.
It was because the quality papers were printed on very large pages called ‘broadsheet’. Not so long ago in Britain if you saw someone reading a newspaper you could tell what kind it was without even checking the name. They concentrate on ‘human interest stories’ which often means scandal.Į.
They use bigger headlines and write in a simpler style of English. They contain less text and a lot more pictures. The popular papers, or tabloids, sell to a much larger readership. They devote much space to politics and other ‘serious’ news. The quality papers or broadsheets are for the better educated readers. every day including Sunday to earn a bit of pocket money.ĭ. The boy or girl usually gets up at around 5:30 a.m. It has become common that more than half of the country’s readers get their morning paper brought to their door by a teenager. Another proof of the importance of ‘the papers’ is the morning ‘paper round’. It means they are published by the same company but not on week days.Ĭ. Some of them are ‘sisters’ of the daily newspapers. Sunday papers are usually thicker than the dailies and many of them have six or more sections. The ‘Sunday papers’ are so called because that is the only day on which they are published. Also, there is the Internet which is a convenient and inexpensive alternative source of news.ī. In the last quarter of the twentieth century people became richer and now they can choose other forms of leisure activity. Fewer and fewer people are buying broadsheets and tabloids at the newsagent’s. As in many other European countries, Britain’s main newspapers are losing their readers.
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