Many of the broadsheets also predict that England will go on to achieve greater things.

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Price wars and an advertising slump have shrunk news budgets, particularly in the broadsheets.

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Can the answer to the woes of the broadsheets really be so simple?

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This provoked a barrage of criticism, with newspapers, from tabloids to broadsheets, calling on the queen to address the nation.

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Mssrs Clarke and Heseltine have given interviews to the broadsheets, talking of the importance of Europe to the British economy.

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In the 1980s the tabloids were the scourge of Old Labour and it was the left-wing broadsheets, in particular the Guardian and the Observer, who stuck with the party.

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The broadsheets, meanwhile, would be witheringly snooty.

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Passports are certainly an emotive business: an entirely untrue story that the EU wanted to replace the royal coat of arms inside the British passport with an EU motto was all over the tabloids and the broadsheets a couple of years ago, and caused quite a fuss.

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But if I were doing a business model for broadsheets and broadcast networks I'd say: Fact and data are our product, we're putting everything into reporting, that's what we're selling, interpretation is the reader's job, and think pieces are for the edit page where we put the hardy, blabby hacks.

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