[00:03.19]Unit 11 The Media Culture Corner

[00:07.04]British Newspapers

[00:15.63]In Britain, the national newspapers

[00:10.99]are very important.

[00:12.62]There are some very good local newspapers

[00:14.64]but most people read one

[00:15.94]of the main national newspapers.

[00:18.77]The most popular newspapers

[00:20.20]are the "tabloids".

[00:21.54]They usually have lots of big pictures

[00:23.58]and the articles are not very long.

[00:26.02]Tabloid papers do not have

[00:27.67]many serious articles,

[00:29.38]but they contain lots of stories

[00:31.02]about sex scandals,

[00:32.69]famous people and the royal family.

[00:34.71]They also have big sports sections

[00:36.87]and a lot of information about TV programmes.

[00:39.97]The two best-selling tabloid newspapers

[00:42.76]are The Sun and The Mirror.

[00:44.84]They sell around four or five million

[00:46.78]copies a day.

[00:47.98]Another tabloid is The Daily Mail,

[00:50.33]which is more serious

[00:53.26]than the other two tabloids.

[00:53.22]There are four main "quality" papers.

[00:55.63]They are much cigger and wider

[00:57.38]than the tabloids and they also have longer

[00:59.64]and more serious news articles

[01:01.50]with fewer pictures.

[01:03.07]Quality newspapers have fewer readers.

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