ABSTRACT
There is a wide choice of daily press in Britain, with approximately 130 daily and 1,800 weekly newspapers. Despite their variety, they can be basically divided into two categories: the quality press and the popular press. The Daily Telegraph is the highest-selling quality newspaper, with a daily circulation of around 420,000 in 2014. Newspapers have become important players in British politics. They are sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate, after the three principal institutions of Church, Crown and Parliament. Magazines for leisure and entertainment fill this gap, and a glance at the shelves of any newsagent reveals a huge variety of magazines directed at people's interests, wants, needs and fantasies. Today, a wide range of fanzines cover music, sport and sometimes cinema, and are found mainly online. Most are witty, apolitical and written with an infectious enthusiasm as an antidote to the increasingly commercial nature of commentary, journalism and public relations surrounding many aspects of popular culture.
