Sentence examples for function of newspapers from inspiring English sources

The function of newspapers is to inform, not inflame.

We're talking about a central, civic function of newspapers.

In an April 1983 television interview, cited by Shannon Martin and David Copeland in their book, The Function of Newspapers in Society, Le Vieux acknowledged that he kept billions in Swiss bank accounts.

Countless blogs, platforms and websites reproduce some of the functions of newspapers, though very few aspire to replicate the entire bundled form of a newspaper, if only because the economic model is so unpromising.

"The editorial functions of newspapers will be with us for a long time, but the distribution system as we know it is short-lived, at least in our part of the world," said Roger Gafke, professor emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism and director of development at its Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.

In proportion as the function of a newspaper has developed and its organisation expanded, so have its costs increased.

The function of the newspaper is to carry petites annonces and the chronique judiciaire, as well as news of Longchamps and Vincennes, to furnish a covering to the floor during house-painting..

"I know the circumstances, if you knew everything that's going on, you'd know it's much ado about nothing". Isn't the function of a newspaper supposed to be to tell us "everything that's going on", not to boast that it knows the circumstances and you do not?

Whatever the point of the battle, economic or editorial, the battleground is the joint agency that runs the noneditorial functions of both newspapers.

You have to really ask yourself: what is the function of these local newspapers if they can't keep people properly informed?" Clearly, the lack of court reports is not down to a diminished appetite for such stories – you only need to look at our current obsession with true crime to know that people will never tire of reading or hearing about sordid, unlawful doings.

(In case you're wondering, this is not a function of the decline of newspapers; this has been the case long before the Internet).