The National Daily Press O Financial Times is o ne of the world's leading business and politics newspapers with a global outlook. It covers the arts and politics, and about money matter such as s hares, stocks, company results, analysis and city gossip.
The National Daily Press O The Independent ” was founded in 1986 and has rapidly acquired a reputation for its excellent news coverage, intelligent reports, informal commentaries, and a good balanced sense of humour.
The National Sunday Press All the Sunday papers provide reading material about fashion, clothes, cooking, the house and home, motoring and holidays. The quality papers also include a magazine called a “colour supplement”.
The National Sunday Press O The best-selling Sunday popular newspaper is “The News of the World”. Its circulation is over 2 million ( 2,789,560 ), and it has a reputation for detailed reports of crime, scandals, sex stories and violence but also for its sports coverage.
The National Sunday Press O “ Sunday Mirror Magazine ” is a larger version of “Daily Mirror”. It offers a lot of photographs and much gossip.
The National Sunday Press O The Sunday People” is an alternative to the News of the World
The quality papers All the quality papers of Sunday press depend a great deal on advertisements to finance them. They all bring information and comment about politics and business throughout the world. They specialize in reviewing new books, the London theatre, new films and music.
The quality papers The Sunday Times was founded in It leads the field in the Sunday qualities and has a circulation of over a million (1, 039, 371 ).
The quality papers “The Observer” is the oldest Sunday paper. It was founded in 1791
According to the circulation, day by day, people tend to buy newspaper less than in the past
The London evening paper (The national evening press) is the midday edition of the paper contains news about afternoon race meetings, the horses, the greyhounds and betting price. It specialize in printing advertisements jobs, flats, houses, and second – hand cars
_ National papers are more popular with British readers than provincial papers are, yet many people still prefer a paper published in their own region. The provincial press
National daily and London evening papers Provincial dailies million6.5 million million8 million
The local press _ 1200 regional newspaper and 1400 website in UK, read by 38 million people a week South England: Oxford Mail,Oxford Times North England: BBC Manchester News, The Journal Ireland: The Listener Scotland: The Spectator, Small Business
Periodicals If the British still feel short of reading material, before they can choose from 4300 journals but nowadays they have more than journals and magazines published monthly or weekly For entertaining Amateur gardening British Chess Magazine Country Life For discussing events and politics The Economist The New Statesman The Spectator
5 restricted ways in publishing in Britain 1.By the laws of libel 2.By the Official Secrets Act 3.By the government requesting 4.Be legal restrictions newspapers on reporting certain court proceeding or commenting on a trial progress 5.By the Press Council
1. How many BBC radio stations are there? a.3 b.4 c.5
2.How many kinds of National Press in Britain ? a.2 b.3 c.4
3. Which is the world’s largest international broadcaster ? a. BBC b. Channel 4 c. Channel 5
4.Which kind of paper is published in a small page format ? a. the periodical b. the quality paper c. the popular paper
5. Which year the Open- University was set up? a b c. 1969
6. What is another name of ITV? a. Channel 3 b. Channel 4 c. Channel 5
7. What is the periodical? a. Melody Maker b. The Sun Magazines c. The Financial Times
8.Which paper is read by the higher income classes ? a. the evening paper b.the quality paper c. the popular paper
9.Which is one of the three most influential newspaper ? a. New of the world b. The Sun c. The Guadian
10. What do local press publish for? a. National b. Country district and town c. Foreign country
11. How many kinds of restricted ways are there in publishing paper in Britain? a.3 b.4 c.5
12.Which paper has the same management with Daily Express ? a. Sunday Mirror b. Daily Star c. Daily Mail
13. How much the TV licence fee costs in 2010 ? a. 2 pounds b.120 pounds c.145,5 pounds
14. Which paper began as a provincial paper ? a. The Observer b. The Guardian c. The Times
15. When did the House of Commons agree to be televised ? a b c. 1988