9. Fill the gaps using active vocabulary.
I started my career as a journalist working as a reporter on the local ................................................... (1)in my home town. The first thing I had to do was to take over the role of agony aunt. This was quite difficult for an eighteen-year-old boy straight out of school! Still, I managed to produce enough ................................................... (2) and in time for my first ................................................... (3). When that first column of mine ................................................... (4) to press,I felt extremely relieved and was so proud that I stayed up all night so that I could get half a dozen copies ................................................... (5) off the press for all the members of my family! I still have a copy of that first article of mine in a folder where I keep ................................................... (6) of all the work that I am especially proud of.
10. Rewrite these sentences so that they mean the same thing, using the word in brackets.
1. Every newspaper inevitably gives its own particular view of events. (spin)
2. I have to find some articles from some previous editions of The Times. (back)
3. Read all about the royal divorce! Only just published. (hot)
4. The floods took up more space in the papers than any other story this week. (COLUMN)
5. Politicians are always ready and willing to give their opinions to the press. (air)
6. The story about the scandal surrounding her uncle broke on her wedding day. (hit)
7. Any newspaper does all it can to prevent being sued for libel. (character)
8. Muck-raking is a characteristic activity of an inferior kind of newspaper. (press)
The British Press
1. Listening
Listen to the interview with Hugh Stephenson, Professor of Journalism at City University, London. Put down the numbers he gives when speaking about the following papers:
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Answer the questions:
How were the popular papers invented?
Which were the first British newspapers?
Why does regional press make a great deal of money?
What is “vanity publishing”?
How did Mr. Rupert Murdoch make his newspaper into a profitable
business?
Which in interviewee’s opinion are the best newspapers?
Where can “the cheap journalism” be found?
What does the political colour of a newspaper in Britain depend on?
2. Reading
Read the text, translate it into Ukrainian. Be ready to discuss it.
The british press
There are over 120 daily and Sunday newspapers and over 1,100 weekly newspapers in Britain. These figures include certain specialized papers with circulation limited not by regions but by interest, for instance, business, sporting and religious newspapers, and newspapers in foreign languages.
Unlike most of its European counterparts the British press receives no subsidies and relatively few tax and postal concessions. Registered newspapers receive a concession on postal rates and "per word" rates for international press telegrams and photo telegrams.
Newspapers are almost always financially independent of any political party, but this doesn't mean that they do not follow any specific political line.
The British press is subject to the general law on publications according to the requirements of which all the newspapers and periodicals must be registered. There are no specific press laws but certain statutes include sections which apply to the press. These relates to such matters as restrictions on the reporting of certain types of court proceedings; restrictions on the publications of advertisements which are governed by Acts dealing with the publication of false or misleading descriptions of goods and services and with fraud, and advertisements of remedies for certain diseases, which are covered by public health legislation.
Of particular relevance to the press are such laws as those on contempt of court, official secrets, libel and defamation. A newspaper may not publish comments on the conduct of judicial proceedings which are likely to prejudice their reputation for fairness.
The obtaining and publication of information from state and official sources of a confidential or security nature is affected by the official secret legislation.