III. Agree or disagree with the statements:

1. The philosopher David Hume praised press freedom in Britain.

2. The relationship between government and the media is usually simple in any democracy.

3. Governments are concerned with maintaining their own authority.

4. The media must watch and criticize the exercise of the authority.

5. Sometimes A D Notice is issued.

6. A D Notice has the force of law.

7. Any newspaper editor would ignore A D Notice.

8. Press aims to entertain its readers rather than inform them.

9. The British are one of the biggest newspapers –reading nations in the world.

10. People must know the truth what ever it is.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. Do people often read newspapers in Great Britain?

2. What did the philosopher David Hume say about press freedom in Britain in 1741?

3. Is such a boast still justified?

4. Does the publication of certain information might endanger national security?

5. Must people know the truth whatever it is?

V. Match the first part of the sentence (1-5) with the second one (a-e).

1	Beyond each newspaper	a	maintaining their own authority.
2	Many people feel that the press has no rights	b	is a final court of appeal for outraged members of the public.
3	The media must watch the exercise of authority,	c	is not usually simple in any democracy.
4	Governments are concerned with	d	to publicise personal matters.
5	The relation­ship between government and the media	e	and criticize when they feel it is wrongly used.

VI. Make up a plan of the text.

VII. Retell the text in a written form (in English or Ukrainian). Text 14. Reuters

I. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

Formidable – значущий, assurance – гарантія, reliability – достовірність, to avoid – уникати, to edit – редагувати, a broadcaster – трансляційна компанія, to provide – забезпечувати.

II. Listen to the text: Reuters

In Britain there are 11 national daily newspapers and most people read one of them every day. Daily newspapers are published on every day of the week except Sunday. Sunday newspapers are larger than daily newspapers. All the Sunday newspapers are national. Most national newspapers in Britain express a political opinion, most of them rightwing, and people choose the newspaper that they read according to their own political beliefs.

Fleet Street in London used to be the home of most national daily and Sunday newspapers and that is why people often say “Fleet Street” to mean “the press” even now.

British newspapers can be divided into two groups: quality and popular. Quality newspapers are more serious and cover home and foreign news while popular newspapers like shocking, personal stories. These two groups of papers can be distinguished easily because the quality newspapers are twice the size of the popular newspapers.

With almost 1,500 staff in 91 countries, no newspaper any­where can compete with Britain's formidable news agency, Reuters. Across the world its name has be­come an assurance of objectivity, accuracy and reliability. Although run from London, Reuters de­liberately avoids any image of being a British institution with English news values. As the day progresses, its world news file is edited from three different cities, switching time zones from Hong Kong to London to New York.

Its reports are filed in French, German, Japanese, Arabic and Spanish, as well as English. Reu­ters also owns Reuters Television (RTV), the largest international television news agency in the world, providing news video to broadcasters in 89 countries.