The History of News Papers and TV broadcasting.

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The History of News Papers and TV broadcasting

Newspapers were first produced in bulk load in 1896 these were produced at a low price and many people were able to buy them. The Daily Mail started the ball rolling and is the mother of the modern tabloid. Today there are more tabloids sold and new companies have started producing papers like The Times or The Guardian. Tabloid papers are small and easier to handle than broadsheet papers. Tabloids have built up a reputation for being biased and full of gossip. They cover more stories about what celebrities get up to than actual important news. As well as celebrities the royal family get a lot of attention and are under constant eye of the papers. Without celebrities the tabloids wouldn't know what to write about. The papers need the celebrities and so do the celebrities need the papers for their publicity. The tabloids are written in colloquial language. They make no attempt to sound educated or refined. They write like ordinary people talk and that's the reason it appeals to so many people. Tabloids have changed a lot since they first started and nowadays they contain more gossip than actual news.

The first news to be broadcast over the radio was about hundred years ago. The message could only be transmitted in a two-mile radius and was not very long, as it had to be done with Morse code. But as technology advanced people were able to transmit voices and music. Then in 1922 the British Broadcasting Corporation ltd was formed (BBC). The BBC started off with just four people running it but within a year 177 people were employed and helped to run it. In 1926 the first TV image was seen. The BBC saw a tremendous growth and by 1945 15 million people were able to watch TV and see the latest news. It wasn't until 1953 however that television beat the radio for audience size. 270 million throughout Europe could watch the Queen Elizabeth being crowned.
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Comparing a broadsheet with a tabloid.

The two papers I have looked at are The Times and The Daily Mirror. The Times is a broadsheet and The Daily Mirror is a tabloid. The target audience for The Times is businessmen aged 40 and above. This is because it contains a lot of business information for example it contains the latest information on the stocks and shares. The tabloid is half the size and has a target audience of young people fewer than 30 that like hearing about gossip and news on celebrities. The broadsheet is to keep ...

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