London Day 3

In the morning, we had a talk on media (especially newspapers and TV).
We compared and contrasted the tabloids and broadsheets. My group had a look at 'The Times' and 'The Sun' which are managed by the same person - Rupert Murdoch, but we also had the opportunity to have a look at 'The Guardian', 'The Mirror' and others...
We understood that in politics, parties are more center oriented (not stict lefts or rights) and there is no organisation to censor the papers (freedom of speech).

After that, we talked about TV in Britain. If you have a TV at home, you have to pay a 70 pound/year fee. If you don`t, you may get fined.

BBC channel is sponsored by the government.

Downtown abbey is a massive TV series that was a great success last christmas and it talks about traditional England during the period of the World War I. It was successful probably because the costume drama brings back the time when Britain was 'great'. There is some nostalgia going on in the country. They miss the old times.

Coronation Street and Eastanders are the oldest soapoperas still being broadcasted (the first for about 50 years and the second one for about 40 years!).