The History of the Newspaper

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The History of the Newspaper

There have been newspapers around since the 19th century.  Around that time all the papers were aimed at high class people because they were the only people who could afford an education.  They only consisted of Standard English without any slang which is quite surprising.  These papers were huge one portrait side of a paper was A3 and when the two pages were together then you can imagine a massive paper they were called ‘Broadsheet’.

In the 20th century more people began to read due to free education so newspapers became more compulsory and had to change to suit everybody’s needs.  This soon changed and turned into a fight for the readers.  Something even more frustrating for newspaper publishers was the release of the television place around the beginning of the 20th century but never really took off until around the middle.

This made an even bigger fight for the readers the things that changed were really big, the whole layout, style and context of the papers were changed which gave birth to the tabloid paper.  The main reasons for this change were the television more people found it more accessible to watch at times that suited them.  The other reason was the radio more people also found it easier to switch on in their lunch hour without even having to stop what they were doing.

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When newspapers were known as broadsheets the language was just plain old Standard English not even a word of slang they were aimed at only the high class type and the reason for that was because no poor person could afford an education.  Now I think that the papers have a lot more competition because the internet is a primary source of information and data.  I also think that people would rather listen to it on the radio or watch it on the television probably because the television only publicises big stories and things that happen in the country.

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