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1. As time [flies/*passes/goes/drags], the power of newspapers seems to be on the [increase/*rise/expansion/build] .
2. This is odd because in the relatively [latest/distant/immediate/*recent] past people were predicting that the influence of the written word would diminish in [exact/*direct/precise/equal] proportion to the rate of increase of the spoken word and moving image through TV and video.
3. The Internet, cable and satellite television, Teletext and multi-media computers in [all/any/*every/one] other home should surely have [*done/gone/stood/set] for newspapers by now, particularly alongside a perceptible resurgence in the audiences for news-carrying radio stations.
4. How have these orchids survived, let alone [*flourished/bloomed/flowered/rooted], particularly on a Sunday?
5. Why do people who have seen a football or tennis [game/set/*match/meeting] live or on the small screen rush the next day to read a [curtailed/cut/reduced/*potted] version of it in four or five columns which surely cannot mean more to the reader than that self-same viewer of the previous afternoon or evening?
6. Why would anyone who has seen a film and formed a [*vivid/coloured/bright/direct] impression of it the following day read a review of the [above-mentioned/*aforesaid/latter/previous] film in a newspaper?
7. Don't we have colleagues for just that purpose - to see if our ideas on any [*given/taken/subjected/written] song, film or programme tally with others'?
8. What is this product that [comprises/contains/*consists/informs] of not much more than outrageous headlines, wayward comment, subjective editorials and hyperbolic sports pages still doing in our lives?
9. It seems for the time [out/*being/given/present] to be leading a charmed life.
10. When it finally goes, though, many may come to mourn its [perishing/dying/falling/*passing].
11. A popular character in the nation's top television soap is [*jailed/prisoned/sentenced/charged] for something of
which she was probably innocent.
12. Having been [arrested/called/*found/discovered] guilty of a series of fraudulent acts, she contemplates months of incarceration.
13. A good story-line, but wait! Within hours the television station is being [bombed/attacked/streamed/*inundated] with calls of protest.
14. A national newspaper soon [opens/*starts/puts/establishes] up a campaign to have her freed.
15. Thousands of T-shirts are printed with slogans [demanding/*calling/insisting/sounding] for her release.