Free Advanced Phrases Exercise: Newspapers / The Press

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

In the UK many journalists do not respect people's enough. That's why we need stricter laws.
Some people prefer to tabloids but I like reading both depending on what mood I'm in.
I'm only interested in serious national and international news. I can never be bothered to read about celebrities in the gossip .
The Times is supposed to be a serious, respectable newspaper but I found their coverage of the recent political scandal a bit too .
The junior minster claimed he had been a victim of a by certain newspapers who were trying to discredit his party's policies.
When there was a flood in Bristol, it was in all the local papers but it wasn't reported by any of the national .
The MP for Sunderland was awarded fifty thousand pounds damages against the Stun Newspaper in a recent case.
A junior minister in the government was recently sacked after it was discovered he was confidential information to the press.
The war in Iraq used to be the number one news item every day. But nowadays it hardly ever the front page.
After he was falsely accused of accepting bribes, the senior police officer spent weeks being by the press.
After the terrorist attack, one of the national tabloids printed a colour two-page showing the sequence of events that led up to the bombing.
My favourite is Barry Johnson who writes satirical pieces about the week's politics in the Guardian.

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