Finlay's A Level Media

1. Consider what would some examples be of more liberal values/opinions? Why would someone vote labour? Someone that votes labour would agree with the Labour party's manifesto and would have more socialist views than someone that votes conservative. 2. Consider what some examples of more conservative values/opinions would be? Why would someone vote Conservative? Conservative values would be about making the economy as strong as possible and supporting people to make as much money as they can. Someone would vote conservative if they are able to look after themselves and not have to rely on other people. 3. Where do the other parties fit on the left - right continuum? Labour, Green Party, Social Democrats, Conservative, UKIP, BNP 4. Why would a group of people change their stance in terms of key issues? 5. Why would an organisation support a certain political party through its media products? It would support a political party because the owner of the paper w...

1. Explain the political significance of the concept of 'press freedom' and its relationship to representative democracy. Why do you think freedom of the press is important? How much influence top you think the government should have about the things reported in the UK press? Press freedom is significant as it gives media institutions the ability to produce stories in any political alignment that they want and also publish any stories they feel are in the public interest. This is important as it means the public can receive news stories that they need to hear, even if they damage the people's reputations. It allows all news to be given to the public so that we have all the information we might need about politics and economics as well as some celebrity stories in tabloids. Without press freedom we would live in a country with state censorship where the government controls what news we receive. This means that they could, if they wanted, only allow s...

The Mail Online http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html The Mail's layout is fairly similar online to its print version. They both contain a lot of adverts of the front/home page and they both feature a large, often sensationalist, headline with image/s to support the article. Both the print and online version contain copy that is just a taster of the full article. The big differences are that the online version contains more plugs for stories on its homepage than the printed versions front page. Also the online version is a lot more update due to it having the ability to add and update stories whenever necessary. The purpose of the extra elements online are to make the paper more interactive. It is also to make it easier to use as some older people struggle with technology so the paper still wants their older readers to be able to access the news when printed papers stop being produced. The news values in the Mail a...

Newspaper Layouts: Broadsheet Layout (The Guardian) - The Guardian has adapted the format of the traditional broadsheet and adapted it to cope with print costs. The size of the paper has decreased to nearly half the size of a traditional tabloid . It has adopted a new format called the ' Berliner ' through a process called ' tabloidisation '. Tabloid Layout (The Daily Mail) - This is the traditional  tabloid layout. It is half the size of the traditional  broadsheet layout and contains 'soft' news rather then 'hard'.  Tabloids and broadsheets both follow similar codes and conventions . The both have mastheads , headlines, and images as well as copy. The broadsheet has more plugs than the tabloid and the broadsheet has an advert. The main noticeable difference is the size of the newspapers.The content is also different, which you can see from the headlines on the front of the papers. Broadsheets ...