Press,Newspapers

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                                        Reading Newspapers and Magazines

Newspapers and magazines play a very important in our life.

There is no family that doesn’t receive or buy one or two newspapers or magazines. All newspapers and magazines inform the public about events, analyse them, express public opinions. Of course, they have changed greatly during the recent years. I’d like to say a few words about the changes that have taken place in Russian press. In the 80s there were several central newspapers which expressed the official viewpoint on everything. All newspapers published the same views. The censorship was very strict. In the middle of the 80s the era of glasnost began. It influenced the press greatly. They started publishing problematic materials. The headlines were changed. The editors-in-chief were elected. There appeared a great number of new newspapers and magazines.

Nowadays there are many daily, weekly, monthly editions. We can subscribe to some newspapers, others we can only buy. There are also newspapers which are distributed free in streets by metro-stations or put into mail-boxes. Newspapers are issued by different companies, independent editorial boards and even individuals. A lot of people stop subscribing to newspapers. Some of them can’t do it, because newspapers very expensive, some of them are afraid of getting the stress reading newspapers and some people prefer watching TV and listening to radio. That is the cause of great competition among the newspapers. They organise all kinds of lotteries, prizes, tours and so on. A special question is that of financed support of the press. The newspapers are not supported by the state any more, so they have to look for sponsors and publish a lot of advertisements. If we take a usual newspaper we’ll find an editorial on the front page which covers the most important events of the day. Then we can find news items, current events, different reports and interviews, some articles and reviews on culture. The last page is usually dedicated to sports events and TV programmes.

1)    Newspapers and magazines inform people about.........

2)    In the 80s there were some newspapers which expressed.....

3)    In the 80s the censorship was......

4)    The era of glasnost began in......

5)    In the 90s many newspapers began publishing......

6)    Nowadays we have....... different newspapers than we had in the 80s.

7)    There are also newspapers  which are distributed free......

8)    Some people stopped subscribing to newspapers because.......

9)    Some newspapers have to look for sponsors  , that’s why they publish........

10) If we take a newspaper, we’ll  find.......