TheBritish Press The British press consists of several kinds ofnewspapers. The national papers are the ones sold all over thecountry, with a large circulation, giving general news. There are two main types of national paper - the popular papers and the quality papers. The popularpapers are smaller in size they are tabloid size , with lots of pictures, bigheadlines and short articles. They are easy to read and often contain littlereal information. They give much space to opinions.They usually have human interest stories - stories about ordinary people and events.Examples of this type of newspapers are The Daily Mail . TheSun , etc. Quality papers appeal to the more seriousreader, who wants to read about politics and foreign affairs.
These papers suchas The Daily Telegraph , The Guardian are bigger in size they are called broad-sheets , with longer articles and a widercoverage of events.They have different pages for home news, foreign affairs,features articles, fashion, business, sport and so on. People in Britain buy more papers on Sunday than onweekdays.
The Sunday papers have a higher circulation than the dailies. As withthe dailies, there are both popular and quality Sunday newspapers. The qualityones have different sections and a colour magazine usually full ofadvertisements MoscowNews Moscow News is a national weekly newspaper.The first issue of it came out in October 5. 1930.Its circulation is about 50,000 copies.The newspaper is printed both inRussian and in English.
It informs the readers of the life in our country, themost important events in foreign states. On the first page you will find the major home news andsome items of foreign news. The second and the third pages are taken by homeaffairs. On the fourth and the fifth pages there are reports from variouscountries on world news. On the last pages you will find the articles which aresometimes called features.The term features covers a wide range ofsubjects review of books, criticisms on theatre, on music, art. films,television, articles on science, travel, sport events, etc. The newspaper isalso lull of advertisements.
QUESTIONS1. What newspapers and magazines are called popular ?2. What newspapers are quality ones?3. What newspapers do you prefer?4. What newspapers do you and your family subscribe to?5. Do you buy newspapers at the kiosks?6. What articles do you prefer reading?7. How often do you read newspapers and magazines?8. What news do they cover?9. Do you read the Moscow News ?10. Is the newspaper interesting for you?11. Do you read the page with sport news?12. Have you ever read any English and American newspapers?13. Have you ever compared Russian and foreign newspapers?14. Are they different?15. What about your parents? What do they read?16. What about your friends? What do they read?17. Do you discuss the most interesting articles with parents and friends?.