Media and the news

a newspaper printed on large sheets of paper

• A broadsheet

• A tabloid

• Online news

• A weekly publication

special feature

• a news article containing the editor’s opinions

• a section in the newspaper for people to express their views to the editor of the newspaper

• a special story

newspapers which focus on sensational journalism, often about the lives of famous people

• a slow news day

• yellow journalism

• the gutter press

a newspaper with fairly small pages mostly containing stories about famous people and not much serious news

• The daily

• A tabloid

• A media outlet

exposure to too much information or data

• invasion of privacy

• information overload

• a slow news day

the collective readers of a newspaper (some newspapers have a large readership)

• layout

• sensational news

• fact-checkers

• hot off the press

• readership

I can’t understand why people buy ……………….. because they don’t contain real news, just gossip

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1. I quite like reading …………… because it’s interesting to read the views of the editor on particular issues.

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1. The reason that many people only glance through the papers to read the ……………….. is that they are so busy and don’t have time to read the details in the articles themselves.

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1. There are so many mistakes in that article with information that they’ve got wrong. They really should employ a …………….

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