The Mass Media. What’s the News?

The Mass Media

What’s the News?

I find television very educating…

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read…

A Chat Show or a Talk Show?

A daily or weekly publication printed on large sheets of paper, containing useful information

newspaper

An account of a current event or events in a newspaper, on TV, radio, etc.

News report

Words printed in heavy type at the top of a newspaper or magazine article telling what it is about

headline

An account of activities of buying and selling, commercial dealings, trade

business news

An account having to do with sports

sports report

A special article, comic strip, etc. in a newspaper

feature article

Factfile “Russian Newspapers”

• 2359-Moscow
• 30-Education
• 20-Chemistry; Math & Physics
• 18-Plants
• 10-Ecology; Religion; Cats & Dogs
• 5-6-Bread-baking
• 4-Dairy-farming
• 2-Pushkin
• 1-Sugar; Sunflower Seeds; Vegetables; Pig-breading

… journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read

Fourth Estate:

• “ populars”
• daily “qualities”
• weekly “qualities”
• glossy magazines
• trade journals

100 Top-Selling newspapers:

• “ Izvestiya”-55 th place

Tell me what newspaper a person reads and I’ll tell you what education he has got