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Culture Salon
Newspapers in The US
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There are more than 1 500 daily
newspapers in the US. Each one is usually sold only in one part
of the country, e.g. in a city, but all cover national and international
news. In larger cities there is often more than one newspaper and
the different ones express different political opinions. Some newspapers
are sold in nearly all parts of the USA, e.g. USA today and the
national edition of The New York Times. Two other newspapers, the
Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are known and respected
all over the US but cannot be bought everywhere. Other important
newspapers are: the Boston Globe, sold in New England; the Chicago
Tribune, sold in the Midwest; the Christian Science Monitor and
USA Today, sold nationally Many people read the national Sunday edition of The
New York Times because it includes the weekly New York Review of
Books.
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Daily and Sunday newspapers |
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Daily
newspapers are published on every day of the week except Sunday.
Sunday newspapers are very big, often having several separate parts.
They contain many longer articles and a lot of advertisements. Each
section deals with a different subject. E.g. national and international
news, sport, travel, etc. One section, the classified adssection(分类广告), has
advertisements for jobs and things for sale. Another cartoon section
is often called the funnies or funny papers. In addition there is often also
a magazine which is in color. |
Online newspapers |
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Many traditional newspapers
are now available online, and even more new ones have been
started there. There are thousands of online newspapers now
available throughout the world. These may resemble the newspapers
of the future. Indeed, they may BE the newspapers of the future.
To find a good list of them, use your computer and go online
to http://library.uncg.edu/news/,
or to a number of other websites you can easily find by going
to www.google.com
and entering “online newspapers” in the search box. One of
the best online newspapers is the electronic daily edition
of USA Today, which may be found at www.usatoday.com.
Please have a look and see if this is the kind of newspaper
you’d like to read.
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notes
1 bulky adj. 庞大的;笨重的
2 resemble v. 像,类似,相似
3 The Boston Globe 波士顿环球报
4 The Chicago Tribune 芝加哥论坛报
5 The Christian Science Monitor 基督教科学箴言报
6 classified ad. 分类的 |
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