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The most well-known British quality national Sundays are:
The Observer (1791),
The Sunday Times (1882),
The Sunday Telegraph (1961).
The most famous British popular notional dailies are:
The Daily Mail (1896),
The Daily Mirror (1903),
The Daily Express (1900),
The Sun (1964),
The Morning Star (1966),
The Daily Star (1978),
The Today (1986).
The most widely known popular National Sundays are:
The News of the World (1843),
The Sunday Express (1918),
The Sunday Mirror (1963),
The Mail of Sunday (1982).
Different quality and popular newspapers appeal to different categories of readership. Read the following passage expressing a jocular opinion of the categories of some British newspapers’ readers:
The Times is read by the people who run the country.
The Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country.
The Guardian is read by the people who think about running the country.
The Morning Star is read by the people who think they ought to run the country.
The Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country.
The Telegraph is read by the people who think the country ought to be run as it used to be.
The Express is read by the people who think it still is run as it used to be.
The Sun is read by the people who don’t care who runs the country as long as the girl on page three is attractive.
1.4. An outline of the analysis of a newspaper writing
1.4.1. To fully understand the linguo-stylistic peculiarities of English newspaper style it will be sufficient to analyse the two basic newspaper genres, namely, a news report as best illustrating a purely objective, matter-of-fact way of presenting information, on the one hand, and a feature article as a vehicle of subjective interpretation and appraisal, on the other.
The first step in the analysis of a newspaper writing is to distinguish between the above two newspaper genres and to justify your choice. It is recommended that you should do it in accordance with the following plan:

1. 
   to characterize the type of information a newspaper item conveys and the author’s attitude towards it;
   
2. 
   to analyse the arrangement (layout) of the information conveyed (the division into physical and conceptual paragraphs, the presence of the so-called ‘lead’);
   
3. 
   to highlight the most salient linguo-stylistic features of a newspaper writing in question, including lexical and certain grammatical ones.
   
4. 
   to comment upon linguo-stylistic peculiarities of a headline and subheadings (if any);
   
5. 
   to make a conclusion concerning the genre of a newspaper writing under analysis.
   

1.4.2. Further analysis of a newspaper text presupposes the implementation of a textlinguistic approach to it. Like any text, a newspaper text, no matter what genre it belongs to, is characterized by functional-communicative, structural and semantic wholeness which, first and foremost, manifests itself in the unity of its compositional structure and the logico-semantic integrity of its content. So, it is expedient to focus on the analysis of a newspaper text in terms of such important text categories as informativity and cohesion turning, first of all, to various lexical means of cohesion which contribute to the logico-semantic wholeness of a text.

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