1.	The print media (newspaper, magazines)

1.1	Quality papers

1.2

Tabloids

1.3

Hoax

1.4

Magazines

2.	The broadcast media (radio stations, television stations)

3.	The Internet

“The print media (newspaper, magazines)
The press is the oldest way of distributing information. It history goes as far as 1455, when the print was founded by Johannes Gutenberg.
Press can be divided into several groups. Most common are newspapers, which are issued daily. In second group, there are magazines and they are issued weekly, monthly or in another period.
The Daily newspapers can be divided into two large groups. The first are the quality papers and the second are the tabloids. The only common thing for these newspapers is usually sport and the weather forecast.

The quality papers are the more credible ones. These newspapers are mainly old, some with more than a hundred-year tradition. They contain political, industrial and cultural news and they devote pages to finance matters and international news. The articles are mostly long and they have not very large headlines. In the Czech Republic, the most important daily broad-sheets are Lidové Noviny, Mladá Fronta Dnes or Právo. In the UK: The Times, The Guardian or The Daily Telegraph belong to the quality papers,
The tabloids are newer than the quality papers - the most popular in our country is Blesk (British equivalent would be The Sun). They are printed on papers twice smaller than broadsheets and they use colours. Word ‘tabloid’ was originally a pharmaceutical term, used for substances which were compressed into pills. So tabloids try to say information in minimal words. They contain sensational stories about famous people. Sometimes they exaggerate a lot to just to make the story interesting. They are less informative and more emotional than quality papers and they use large headlines and many pictures.
In our country we call tabloids “bulvár”- this derived from the French word “boulevard”, because at the beginning of the 19th century when this kind of newspaper began to spread, these newspapers were sold by news-boys in the street – in boulevards.
The hoax, is some information that is not really true and is meant to confuse people’s opinion. It usually appears in the newspaper (both quality and tabloids) on the April’s Fools Day (1st April). The origin of the English word hoax is based on a hoax. Hoax derives from hocus, as in hocus pocus. Hocus pocus is not real Latin, it is imitation Latin, used by travelling illusionists and jugglers to make their tricks look real."