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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/As readers of newspapers and viewers of TV, we readily assume that the articles we read and the programmes we watch consist of faithful reports of events that happened "out there", in the world beyond our immediate experience. At a certain level, that is of course a realistic assumption: real events do occur and are reported - a coach crashes on a motorway, a housewife wins the pools, a cabinet minister resigns. But real events are subject to conventional process of selection: they are not "intrisically newsworthy", but only become news when selected for inclusion in news reports.