Long TextExercise 18 of 81

Offices and bars are full of casual obscenity, but most British newspapers are ... well, not necessarily careful about language, but careful about bad words anyway. The phrase 'family newspaper' is an ineluctable part of our lives. Newspapers are not in the business of giving gratuitous offence. It is a limitation of…

• What does the writer say about newspapers in the first paragraph?
• What does the writer imply in the second paragraph?