INTRODUCTION
Civilization of English-speaking countries
BRITAIN TODAY:
- structure : 12 lectures
private study: BU, web resources, media
buy Sarah Pickard. La civilisation britannique. Langues pour tous /pocket-
bilingual publication
Assessment :
- weekly quizzes
● online
● 20% of your final grade
● 10 days to complete
- final exam
● january- lecture hall
● un qcm
● with negative marks
● 80% of final mark
Class outline:
- introduction
- british media
- the british constitution, Monarchy and Government
- The british Parliament
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- Multiculturalism
- education
- social policy
- the UK and the UE
- the Uk and the US
Country profile:
united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland
capital: London
- population: 67 million
- Area: 243.514 (93,638 sq miles)
- Major language: English
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 78 years (men) 82 (women)
- currency: pound sterling, UN, World Bank
Different meaning of the term britain:
1) British isles
2) Great britain
3) united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland
The land:
FLAGS
Area:
UK: 245,000km2
France: 545000 km 2
The population:
UK: 67.081.000
England : 56.550,000
scotland : 5,466,000
wales: 3,170,000
northern ireland: 1,896,000
approximate population figures:
- london : 9.000.000
- Edinburgh: 500.000
- Cardiff: 350.000
- Belfast: 350.000
In london the demographic composition is significantly more divers
Religion:
THE BRITISH MEDIA
introduction
Definition: the main ways that large numbers of people receive information and
entertainment, that is television, radio, newspaper and the internet
Outline:
- the british press
● short history
● line-up
● trends
● challenges
- the other media
● radio
● tv
The british Press:
1) history and line-up
Fleet street(1700s-1980s) is a street in london, it's another term for the newspaper in
the street
The fleet street is start in 18 century
- 1702: The Daily courant → the first daily newspaper → it was a only single
page
- 1805( middle of the 19 century) : Development of newspapers (because of a
social, economic reasons and technological developments)
● social 1870: education act, there’s more and more people who can
read so there's more potential customers. It's also a period of political
stability and that’s helps to people how passmore time reading
newspaper
● economic: removal of taxation on papers, it's the beginning of
advertisements
● technological: the telegraph → they can write faster. the railroad →
mass circulation, you can transport more newspaper at the same time,
and the rotary press
in london it were 52 newspaper today they are 10 major newspaper, we can see the
interest on media in the middle of 19 century
Total paid-for and free dailies, total average circulation
Uk people are a big readers
categories of newspaper
A) the red tops : Tabloids definitely know how to grab attention nicknamed redtops, the
red tops will still report politics and international news, they pretend to include more
celebrity gossip and scandal, the texts are shorter and they have more pictures than
the others news paper
B) Mid-market section: between the redtops and quality news paper
C) Quality news paper: lowest circulation, longer sentences paragraph, more analysis
- The independent newspaper had very low circulation so it decided to be
online only.
Who reads what? people don’t read the same newspaper as wealthy they are
Attributes of Print Newspaper sources -2022
UK newspaper market
One of the reasons why the sun is a popular newspaper is for page 3 which shows women
naked (boobs)
- 1969: Rupert Murdoch bought the paper
- 1970: Topless photo on page 3
- 2015: no more page 3 because of the company Boobs aren’t news
The daily newspaper is also a very popular newspaper because its used for news nowadays
concentration of owner ship :
Uk newspaper circulation decline
All newspaper have an online edition and a lot of they reader are online
for example the guardian has 9% reader print only and 16% digital only
ABC online Figures:
- comment: papers with small domestic circulation have strong international appeal
conclusion
- the newspapers are in hard times
● smaller formats
● seeking young readers
● competing with free papers (also suffering)
- tabloïds
● sensational stories
● ethical issues
