2. Commentary and Notes to the text.
tabloid -
таблоид - малоформатная газета со сжатым
текстом, обычно бульварного содержания
junk food
news
- a sardonic term for news stories that deliver "sensationalized,
personalized, and homogenized inconsequential trivia",
especially when such stories appear at the expense of serious
investigative journalism. It implies a criticism of the mass media
for disseminating news that, while not very nourishing, is "cheap
to produce and profitable for media proprietors.
gutter
press
- the section of the popular press that seeks sensationalism in its
coverage - бульварная,
жёлтая
пресса
(газеты
и
журналы
низкого
пошиба;
публикуют
скандальную
хронику,
порнографические
и
низкопробные
материалы;
рассчитаны
на
невзыскательного
читателя
red top
– (брит.) таблоид, бульварная газета,
жёлтая пресса
3. Answer the questions giving below.
1. What topics
does Tabloid journalism tend to emphasize?
2. What does
tabloid newspaper allegation about?
3. Why are the
large, national versions of tabloids, usually published weekly,
named "supermarket tabloids"?
4. What the
term “red top” mean?
