Many British families buy a national or local newspaper every day. Some have it delivered to their home by a paper boy or paper girl; others buy it from a newsagent or a bookstall. National dailies are published each morning except Sunday. Competition between them is fierce. Local daily papers, which are written for people in a particular city or region, are sometimes published in the morning but more often in the early evening. Britain …
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…Many people do not like this approach. Recently, there has been concern about people's rights to privacy and now a voluntary press code gives guidelines on, amongst other things, photographings famous people. The editor decides what stories to include each day but the publisher or owner has control over general policy. Newspaper owners are very powerful and are sometimes called press barons. The most famous in recent years have been Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch.