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Read a text about why people read celebrity gossip and answer questions.
Skim and scan stories about the most famous hoaxes in history.
News is presented and written differently in different newspapers or online sites. Read about the differences between popular and serious media.
There are different newspapers and news sites. They bring daily news (for example The NY Times or cnn.com), local news (for example The Seattle Times), news about sports (for example football365.com) or celebrities (for example tmz.com). Some of these sites are serious, others more popular.
In the English-speaking world this difference is called broadsheet vs tabloid. These words come from the size newspapers used to have: serious newspapers were large: printed on broad sheets. Popular papers were a smaller size: tabloid. Now a lot of newspapers have the same size. And online you cannot even see this difference in size. But the words are still used.
Not only size, also the content is different. In this table you can see how the newspapers or news sites differ from each other:
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