Recording 1

Ivan Fallon

It’s a broadsheet newspaper, as opposed to what we call a tabloid newspaper. This is twice the size of a tabloid newspaper. It’s a very large newspaper. It’s a multi-section newspaper: we’ve got eight sections and a magazine. The, the first section, which is obviously the most important section, is what we call the News section; and in that we have home news, we have foreign news and we have analysis of some of the major events of the week. After that we have more specialized sections; we have what we call the News Review section. This section includes what we call the ‘leader’, which is the newspaper’s editorial comment – our views on what is the most important event of the week. This one here, which will be personally written by the editor – which is an attack upon the government’s economic policy and its employment policies – this is our contribution to the political debate.

The third section, which is the section I edit, is Business. This is a section that is amazingly well-read; it’s the classified advertising section – classified advertisements being specialist small advertisements. Quite often they are tiny ads.

Now we get to our tabloid sections. We have effectively three tabloid sections. The reason for this is that we found that not everybody likes the large broadsheet format. We’ve developed this particular section as our art section. The book section (we call section six) was the first time in Britain that this type of separate section had been done on books, and is still the only separate book section in Britain. We also have a color supplement, which is very much a separate part of paper.

READING HABITS

Recording 2

One

I don’t read newspapers at all. They ’re all biased. They’ve been taken over by companies who have political interests. And in Britain most of papers are right wing. There are one or two that I think are a bit more objective, but I’d rather listen to the radio.

Two

Actually, I don’t want to know about the details of all the troubles in the world – it’s all so depressing. I like human-interest stories – stories about people, not wars and disasters. So my daily newspaper is a tabloid. The other good thing about a tabloid is that you can read it ten minutes on the way to work. That’s all I want.

Three

I get a so-called quality newspaper on Sundays because it gives me a good summery of world events, but I also buy tabloids two or three times a week. People are critical of the pictures and stories of the royals and the problems that have been published in the tabloids, but I don’t agree. Why shouldn’t we know how they’re spending our money? They’re public figures, and only the tabloids give you the details – the other papers are too respectful.

LISTENING AND READING HABITS

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