Introduction to newspapers

  1) What type of news can you typically find in a tabloid newspaper?

- gossip, celeb news 

2) What type of news can you typically find in a broadsheet newspaper?

- politics

3) If someone is left-wing, which political party are they likely to support? Which newspaper would they be likely to read?

- labour

4) If someone is right-wing, which political party are they likely to support? Which newspaper would they be likely to read?

- conservative

5) Why has there been a decline in newspaper sales in the last 20 years?

- because of the internet and convenience 

6) Why is a free press important in a democracy like the UK?

- to avoid a dictatorship

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