Media and health
Cards (50)
- descriptions of the lives of people who have just diedobituary
- an article giving the newspaper editor’s opinioneditorial or leader
- pages of advertisements in different categoriesclassified ads or classifieds
- eparate magazines included with the newspapersupplements
- an article or set of articles devoted to a particular topicfeature
- sections in a paper or magazine that deal with readers’ private emotional problemsagony column
- person, typically a woman, who answers letters in the agony columnagony aunt
- number of copies sold by a newspaper or magazinecirculation
- small, thin book like a magazine, which gives information about a school, college or university, or a companyprospectus
- the best there isunsurpassed
- dramatically reducedslashed
- a huge number of products on sale at ridiculously low pricesbargains galore
- let yourself do or have something that you enjoy but which may be bad for youindulge yourself
- rich and special: ... collocates most strongly with words relating to food and furnishingssumptuous
- live in a very luxurious waylive in the lap of luxury
- designed by studying people and their working or living conditions, especially in order to improve effectivenessergonomically designed
- use the very latest technologystate-of-the-art
- temptinglytantalisingly
- words written in the sky using smoke from a planesky-writing
- advertising posters hung at the back and front of a person, who then walks around a busy areasandwich boards
- people trying to influence what other people think about a particular issuepressure groups
- short memorable sentence or phrase that will be repeated in news bulletins and articlessoundbite
- making use of people or organisations which regularly provide newstapping useful sources
- spacecolumn inches
- an informal word for a newspaper and it suggests that it is not of very high qualityrag
- a disapproving term used about the kind of newspapers and magazines that are more interested in crime and sex than serious newsgutter press
- Previous issues of a paperback copies
- A story that is only to be found in one newspaperexclusive or scoop
- publish a story in a newspaperrun a story
- Verleumdunglibel or defamation of character
- present it in their own wayput their own gloss/spin on smth
- collecting scandalmuck-raking
- provided by specialists in special clinics or hospitalssecondary care
- a doctor who doesthe job of another doctor who is ill or on holidaylocum
- eye doctorophthalmologists
- pregnancy and childbirth doctorobstetricians
- tax paid by most working adults which covers the costs of healthcare for everyonenational insurance
- small centre offering primary care, run by a single GP or a group of GPs (surgery can of course also mean thebranch of medicine that involves carrying out operations)surgery
- charge for the medication the doctor prescribes, which you pay at a pharmacyprescription charge
- has caught, usually a non-serious illnessgone down with