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Culture Corner British Newspapers In Britain, the national newspapers are very important. There are some very good local newspapers but most people read one of the main national newspapers. The most popular newspapers are the "tabloids". They usually have lots of big pictures and the articles are not very long. Tabloid papers do not have many serious articles,but they contain lots of stories about sex scandals, famous people and the royal family. They also have big sports sections and a lot of information about TV programmes. The two best-selling tabloid newspapers are The Sun and The Mirror. They sell around four or five million copies a day. Another tabloid is The Daily Mail, which is more serious than the other two tabloids. There are four main "quality" papers. They are much bigger and wider than the tabloids and they also have longer and more serious news articles with fewer pictures. Quality newspapers have fewer readers. The oldest and most famous quality newspaper is The Times,but the best selling ones nowadays, are The Telegraph and The Guardian. Finally, there is The Financial Times, a pink business newspaper which is now the most important international business newspaper. The two types of newspapers are an interesting part of British culture. The "quality" papers are large and inconvenient to read. For many years, people have been wondering why they refuse to change their size. However, many other people like the size of the "quality" papers because it shows that they are not reading a tabloid, and are therefore reading a serious paper. Recently, things seem to be changing. The first quality paper that started producing a tabloid format was The Independent,and quite soon after that, The Times produced a tabloid version too. Feedback on such changes is varied. For some people, this is not popular because they want their serious paper to look like a serious paper.For others, it is good to have a newspaper that is interesting, intelligent and also convenient to read. 文化广角 英国的报纸 在英国，全国性的报纸很重要。 也有一些非常好的地区性报纸，但是多数人读一种主要的全国性报纸。 最受欢迎的报纸是那些“小报”。 通常上面有许多大幅的图片和短小的文章。 小报没有很多严肃文章，却有很多有关性丑闻、名人和皇室的报道。 它们也有大的体育版面和很多有关电视节目的信息。 销售量最大的两种小报是《太阳报》和《镜报》。 一天的销售量大约是四五百万份。 还有一种小报是《每日邮报》，它比那两种小报要严肃些。 英国有四大“高品质”报纸。 它们比小报版面要大要宽，还配有少量图片的长篇严肃的新闻报道。这些大报读者较少。 历史最悠久，最著名的大报是《泰晤士报》，但是现在《每日电讯报》和《卫报》销量最大。 最后是《金融时报》，一份粉色的报纸，是当今世界上最重要的国际性商业报纸。 两种不同类型的报纸构成了英国文化有趣的一面。 "大"报版面大，不方便阅读。 多年来，人们都不知道他们不改变版面大小的原因。 然而，还有很多人喜欢"大"报的版面，因为这能显示他们不是在读小报，而是在读一份严肃的报纸。 近来，情况有些改变。《独立报》首先开始以小报版式出现，之后没过多久，《泰晤士报》也出了一种小报版的。 人们对这种改变的反应各式各样。 对于有些人来说，这样做并不受欢迎，因为他们希望严肃的报纸就应该有严肃报纸的样子。 对于另一些人来说，这样做很好，因为他们有了一种集趣味性、知识性和便捷性于一身的报纸。 |
