Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? Howdid the critics likethe new play? ___41___ an event takes place, newspapers arc on the streets ___42___the details. Wherever anythinghappens in the world, imports are on the spot to ___43___ the news. 

Newspapers have one basic ___44___ . to get the news as quickly as possible from its source,from those whomake it to those who want to ___45___ it. Radio, telegraph, television, and ___46___inventions brought competition fornewspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. ___47___ , this competition merelyspurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the___48___ and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are ___49___ and read than ever before.Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keepingreaders ___50___ of the latestnews, today's newspapers ___51___ and influence readers about politics andother important and serious matters.Newspapers influence readers' economic choices 52advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising fortheir very ___53___ .Newspapers are sold ata price that 54 even a small fraction of the cost of production.The main ___55___ of income formost newspapers is commercial advertising. The ___56___insellingadvertisingdependson anewspaper's value to advertisers. This ___57___ in terms of circulation. How many people readthenewspaper? Circulation depends ___58___ on the work of the circulation department and on theservices orentertainment ___59___ in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation dependson a newspaper's value toreaders as a source of information ___60___ the community, city, country,state, nation, and world-and even outerspace. 

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