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Fleet Street 2. Quality' and Popular' Newspapers
Fleet Street 2. Quality' and Popular' Newspapers
Newspapers
1. Fleet Street
2. ‘Quality’ and ‘Popular’ Newspapers
In British there are 11 national daily newspapers and most people read one of
them every day. Daily newspapers are published on every day of the week except
Sunday. Sunday newspapers are large than daily newspapers. All the Sunday
newspapers are national. Most national newspapers in Britain express a political
opinion, most of them rightwing, and people choose the newspaper that they read
according to their own political beliefs.
Fleet Street in London used to be the home of most national daily and Sunday
newspapers and that is why people often say «Fleet Street» to mean «the press»
even now.
British newspapers can be divided into two groups: quality and popular.
Quality newspapers are more serious and cover home and foreign news while
popular newspapers like shocking, personal stories. These two groups of papers
can be distinguished easily because the quality newspapers are twice the size of the
popular newspapers.
The quality daily papers are «The Times», «The Guardian», «The Daily
Telegram» and the «Financial Times».The “Тimes”, founded in 1785, is
considered to be the most authoritative newspaper voice in the country and is said
to be the paper of the Establishment. The «Guardian», appeals to well-educated
readers interested in intellectual and social affairs. The «Daily Telegraph» is
bought by educated upper middle and middle-class readers. The Financial Times,
printed on pink papers, is read by businessmen.
The popular press consists of the «Daily Mail», the «Daily Express», the
«Daily Star» and the «Sun». In all newspapers there is a desperate fight to maintain
or improve their circulation but it is worst among the «popular» papers whose
main weapons are sex, scandal and sport.
Apart from London-based papers, there are many local newspapers. Most of
these are evening papers (there is only one London evening paper) and many
appear weekly.
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