warm-up 热身
The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. From 2006, allegations of phone hacking began to engulf the newspaper. These culminated in the revelation on 4 July 2011 that, nearly a decade earlier, a private investigator hired by the newspaper had intercepted and deleted the voicemail of missing British teenager Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered. Amid a public backlash and the withdrawal of advertising, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7 July 2011. The scandal deepened when the paper was alleged to have hacked into the phones of families of British service personnel killed in action.
Learning Objectives 学习目标
1. To know about the role of media in the everyday life of the British people;
2. To know about the long history of newspaper in the UK;
3. To know about the characteristics of newspaper ads and the administration of ads in the UK;
4. To know about the freedom of press in the UK;
5. To know about changes brought about by the popularization of TV and the Internet;
6. To know about the importance of TV to the British people;
7. To know about BBC;
8. To know about the important role TV has been playing in UK’s politics;
9. Social media in the UK.
Focal Points 知识点
