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.

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.

Tabloid papers like the Sun and the mirror have some types of gimmicks

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