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Newspaper Most newspaper in the US rely heavily on two major news services, the Associated Press and the United Press International, which gather news stories and sell them the subscribing newspapers. Big Four: United Press International Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France Presse Big Five: Big Four plus Russian ITAR-TASS, Top 5 US newspapers, by average paid weekday circulation (May 2006) Top 10 Newspapers,2000 1. The Wall Street Journal 2. USA Today 3. The New York Times 4. Los Angeles Times 5. The Washington Post 6. Daily News( New York) 7. Chicago Tribune 8. Newsday 9. Houston Chronicle 10. San Francisco Chronicle Time It expresses ideas on international issues and reports international events extensively. It’s become influential not only in US but also in the world. Time has the US edition, international edition, as well as Europe, Asia and Latin American editions. Since March3. 1923 publication, Time has a keen interest to report issues about china. Giants TV networks ABC CBS NBS FOX commercial Paramount Warner PBSnoncommercial Freedom of Press vs. National Security The First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press. Yet situations can arise when the national security would be endangered if certain information became public. For example, in 1961 the New York Times uncovered information on the secret Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba being planned by the Kennedy administration. Under some pressure from the White House, but primarily due to their own self-censorship based on the national-security rationale, the Times’s publisher and editors decided not t print the information, The Bay of Pigs invasion went ahead, and failed disastrously leaving many to question whether national security would have been better served had the story been run and the plan unmasked. American holidays New Year‘s Day January 1 President‘s Day 华盛顿诞辰日 Third Monday in February Memorial Day