1.
There are five basic functions of a newspaper: to inform, to
review,
to
persuade,
to
instruct
and
to
entertain.
You
may
think
that
this
list
of
functions
is
in
order
of
26importance
.
But,
if
so,
you
would
not
be
27
in
agreement
with
the
majority
of
the
reading
public.
Of
the
two
28
category
of
newspaper,
the
popular
and
the
quality,
the
former
have
a
readership
of
millions,
while the 29
letter
, only hundreds of thousands. Yet
the
popular
papers
seem
largely
30
designed
recreation
and
light-
hearted
human
interest
stories.
Their
news
coverage
contains
lots
of
comments
and
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persuade
language:
the
information
content
is
low,
and
instruction
is
minor.
However,
the
quality
newspapers
put
a
much
lower
emphasis
on
32
entertainment
.
It
is
not
only
in
content
that
the
two
types
of
paper
differ.
There
is
a
difference, too, in the style in which the articles are written.
The
popular
papers
33
generally
use
more
dramatic
language
with
a
lot
of
wordplay.
This
means
that
popular
newspapers
are
easier
for
a
native
speaker
to
understand.
In
order
to
decide
whether
a
newspaper
is
a
quality
or
a
popular
one,
it
is
not
even
34
necessary
to
read
it,
since
you
can
tell
simply
by
the
way
it
looks.