The graphs below show where people first got their news, both about the world and about local events, between 1987 and 1997.
The given line graphs illustrate the percentage of Britain who opted for which media to receive international and domestic
news
between 1987 and 1997. Overall
, television was the most preferred media for UK citizens to get world news
throughout the decade, whereas
, the most chosen source of local news
was the newspaper
.
If we examine the graphs deeply, in 1987, there was 65% of Britain selecting
TV as the main source of international Wrong verb form
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news
, followed by newspaper
and radio, which accounted for 25% and 9% of the audience respectively. While
newspaper
was the predominant source of local news
, representing roughly half of its audience size. However
, it dropped gradually to approximately 50% in 1992 and levelled off to around 40% of its citizens in the next five years.
When we compare three different categories of media, it demonstrates that the proportion of individuals who selected newspaper
and radio to get the world news
was fewer than television over the decade, with roughly one-third of its respondent
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By contrast
, for the sources of local news
, television increased steadily to 37% in 1997 and converged to the newspaper
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