How Valid is the Distinction between Popular and Quality Press in Britain?
Roland Scheller
How valid is the distinction between the popular and the quality press in Britain?
Essay
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Essay: How valid is the distinction between the popular and the quality press in Britain?
Support your answer with detailed evidence from any two daily newspapers.
Introduction:
In the UK you can find a wide range of newspapers. In general you can divide them into quality and popular press. Quality newspapers are The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The
Independent and The Financial Times. The popular press consists of The Daily Mirror, The Daily
Express, The Daily Star and The Sun. You can also find a lot of regional newspapers; for example
The Evening Standard (London, popular press oriented), The South Wales Echo (South Wales, popular press oriented) and The Western Mail ( Wales, more quality press oriented). In this essay I will refer to the popular press as tabloid press. The aim of this essay is to compare quality press and tabloid press. This I will do with two examples: The Times and The Sun. So the question might arise why I chose just those two newspapers? They are both reflective of their field and are recognized all over the world. However they both belong to the same person: to the Australian media mogul
Rupert Murdoch. And so a second question arises: Are there indications that this constellation might minimize the difference between quality and tabloid press? Yet we are in the age of the internet. So a third question arises: Are both newspapers sufficiently represented on the internet?
Main part:
When comparing articles in The Sun and articles in The Times with regard to the same topics it is evident that The Times is much more detailed: The articles are longer; the language is nearly free of vulgarities and slang and the textual expression is more polite. On the other hand The Sun supplies
the
How valid is the distinction between the popular and the quality press in Britain?
Essay
Dokument Nr. V33685 http://www.grin.com/ ISBN 978-3-638-34103-5
9 783638 341035
EUROS/ Erasmus
5.4.2000
Essay: How valid is the distinction between the popular and the quality press in Britain?
Support your answer with detailed evidence from any two daily newspapers.
Introduction:
In the UK you can find a wide range of newspapers. In general you can divide them into quality and popular press. Quality newspapers are The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The
Independent and The Financial Times. The popular press consists of The Daily Mirror, The Daily
Express, The Daily Star and The Sun. You can also find a lot of regional newspapers; for example
The Evening Standard (London, popular press oriented), The South Wales Echo (South Wales, popular press oriented) and The Western Mail ( Wales, more quality press oriented). In this essay I will refer to the popular press as tabloid press. The aim of this essay is to compare quality press and tabloid press. This I will do with two examples: The Times and The Sun. So the question might arise why I chose just those two newspapers? They are both reflective of their field and are recognized all over the world. However they both belong to the same person: to the Australian media mogul
Rupert Murdoch. And so a second question arises: Are there indications that this constellation might minimize the difference between quality and tabloid press? Yet we are in the age of the internet. So a third question arises: Are both newspapers sufficiently represented on the internet?
Main part:
When comparing articles in The Sun and articles in The Times with regard to the same topics it is evident that The Times is much more detailed: The articles are longer; the language is nearly free of vulgarities and slang and the textual expression is more polite. On the other hand The Sun supplies
the