divided into the quality press and the popular press. The quality newspapers are also known as "heavies" and they usually deal with domestic and overseas news, with detailed and extensive coverage of sports and cultural events. Besides they also carry financial reports, travel news, and book and film reviews.
The popular press, or the "populars", are also known as tabloids, as they are smaller in size being halfsheet in format. Some people also call them the "gutter press" -- offering news for people less interested in daily detailed news reports. They are characterized by large headlines, carry a lot of big photographs, and concentrate on the personal aspects of news, with reports of the recent sensational and juicy bits of events, not excluding the Royal Family. The language of a tabloid is much more colloquial than that of quality newspapers.
Here is a possibly witty though true classification of English newspapers:
The Times is read by the people who run the country.
The Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country.
The Guardian is read by the people who think about running the country.
The Mail is read by wives of the people who run the country.
The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think the country ought to be run as it used to be.
The Express is read by the people who think it is still run as it used to be.
The Sun is read by the people who dont care who runs the country as long as the naked girl on page three is attractive.
Questions for discussion
1. Do you enjoy reading newspapers?
2. What is your favorite newspaper? Why?
3. How can we devide the British newspapers?
4. Give the characteristics of the serious newspapers
5. What
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