Broadsheets

The legend of Robin Hood and his Merry Men has been transplanted to many different formats over the years – broadsheets, plays, novels, movies, musicals, and, in the upcoming release of Hood: Outlaws & Legends, video games.

This includes “respectable” broadsheets such as the Times, which was belatedly forced to correct misleading coverage claiming a Christian child was “forced into Muslim foster care”.

Dundee may be flying high on a tide of votes from broadsheets and magazines (let’s not forget GQ voted us the coolest city in the UK recently) but we can’t get carried away.

Besides offering a sometimes satirical view of the seriousness of mainstream news, the Daily Sun confers weightiness upon issues that would likely be treated with laughing dismissal in traditional South African broadsheets.

Martin Luther 's 95 Theses were printed and circulated widely; subsequently he issued broadsheets outlining his anti- indulgences position (certificates of indulgences were one of the first items Gutenberg had printed).

Singers may extend their repertoire using broadsheets, song books or CDs, but these secondary enhancements are of the same character as the primary songs experienced in the flesh.

The paper was created at a time of fundamental change and attracted staff from the two Murdoch broadsheets who had chosen not to move to the new headquarters in Wapping.

When the Times began, it was unusual among American broadsheets in publishing a full color front page, along with full color front pages in all its sections and color elements throughout.