TABLOIDS

Two types of newspaper TABLOIDS BROADSHEETS The two most popular daily newspaper, The Sun and The Daily Mirror, are both tabloids. The differences about the tabloids and the broadsheets are breaking down. Many of the broadsheets have a stories about famous people. The tabloids used to be cheaper than broadsheets but The Time (broadsheet) is now the cheapest national newspaper.

characteristics of the tabloids The tabloids contain far less print than the broadsheets and far more pictures, They are twice as small as the broadsheets (better to hold), They are written a simpler style of English, The tabloids concencrate on „human interest” stories, which often means sex and scandal.

How many do they sell? The graph shows the average daily sale of these two types of national newspapers in the early 1990s . The tabloids sold about six times as many copies as the broadsheets. However, in 1950s they sold twenty times as many. People are more educated nowadays that’s why their reading habits have changed recently.

MAIN TABLOIDS’ TOPIC Tabloids have almost given upneven the pretence of dealing with serious matters, their pages are full of lives of famous people. This emphasis revealing the details of people's private lives has led to discussion about the possible need to restrict the freedom of the press.

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THE END Presentation was made by: Alicja Gołkowska, Anna Mikuła, Karol Stach, Magdalena Stanek