北師大版高中英語模塊4--Unit 11 The Media 2
[00:01.62]The oldest and most famous quality newspaper
[00:04.40]is The Times,
[00:05.71]but the best selling ones nowadays,
[00:07.83]are The Telegraph and The Guardian.
[00:10.25]Finally, there is The Financial Times,
[00:12.88]a pink business newspaper
[00:14.59]which is now the most important international
[00:16.55]business newspaper.
[00:18.15]The two types of newspapers
[00:19.95]are an interesting part of British culture.
[00:22.38]The "quality" papers
[00:23.27]are large and inconvenient to read.
[00:25.85]For many years, people have been wondering
[00:27.55]why they refuse to change their size.
[00:29.91]However, many other people like the size
[00:32.57]of the "quality" papers
[00:33.98]because it shows that they are not reading
[00:35.66]a tabloid,
[00:36.82]and are therefore reading a serious paper.
[00:39.40]Recently things seem to be changing.
[00:41.99]The first quality paper
[00:43.44]that started producing a tabloid format
[00:45.65]was The Independent, and puite soon after that,
[00:48.36]The Times produced a tabloid version too.
[00:51.67]Feedback on such changes is varied.
[00:54.38]For some people, this is not popular
[00:56.60]because they want their serious paper
[00:58.20]to look like a serious paper.
[01:00.19]For others, it is good to have a newspaper
[01:02.32]that is interesting,
[01:03.74]intelligent and also convenient to read.
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