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...

Media Industries On the covers of these papers on the 6th November 2017 The Daily Mail made an attempt to try and protect the Queen by using the word 'dragged' it separates her from the scandal and attempts to make her seem innocent. This is not surprising because The Daily Mail is right-wing and pro-Royal Family so they do not want to damage their image. The Guardian is a lot more objective in the headline, however they do use negative words like 'controversial' and 'exploiting' which begin to push the blame to the Queen. This is expected because the paper if left-wing and has socialist views. They also commonly write stories about economics and politics. The Guardian also uses the word 'poor' in order to victimise the people that aren't investing their money in offshore accounts Media Language The Daily Mail has the traditional tabloid style newspaper. It has a celebrity based story that takes up a large percentage of the c...

Newspaper groups and their titles- DMGT / Associated Newspaper - The Daily Mail EIS Media - The Independent Guardian Media Group - Guardian and Observer Trinity Mirror - The Mirror News UK - The Sun, The Times Northern & Shell - The Express and Daily Star Press Holdings - The Telegraph Pearson - Financial Times The Guardian and The Observer are sister papers and have the same political standing because they are owned by the same company. News International owns The Sun and The Times. They also owned The News of the World until it was closed in 2011. Both of these papers they produce are right-wing. News International is owned by Rupert Murdoch. The branch of the company that deals with news has been rebranded as News UK. The company owns 21st Century Fox, who don't have a good reputation with their news brand Fox News. When the Leveson Inquiry took place in 2011, it gave News International a lot of negative attention which i...

Similarities: Small Masthead. Column Style - text based. Authoritative, persuasive tone. Subheading - outlines opinion. Based on current affairs. Two or three different comment articles. Differences: Guardian articles are a lot longer than the Mail's. Guardian is objective but Daily Mail is biased (more nationalistic). Guardian states more facts. Mail's more opinionated. Guardian has more complicated, intellectual language. Mail uses more word play. Mail has more emotive readers. Guardian writes more passively. Mail writes more actively. Uses and Gratifications Theory: The Daily Mail fits the identify part of this theory because right-wing supporters identify with the values that the paper holds. The Daily Mail educates its readers in the comment section by sharing their views and giving their opinion on different topics. The Daily Mail entertains its audience with the more relaxed and biased perspective. Som...

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 ...

1 . Why's THAT in the test? Britain's stressed out teenagers complain about the impossible GCSE questions they couldn't possibly have prepared for The images in this article are examples of Twitter posts created by teenagers after their  GCSE examinations. It creates the impression that all teenagers were having these feelings and thoughts towards the exam questions. It makes it seem as though teenagers all had a pessimistic view towards their exam. It tells the readers of the article that teenagers are full of negativity. Positive words and phrases: None. Negative words and phrases: s tressed, annoyed, bemused, dumbfounded, fuming. These words are stereotypical for the representation of teenagers because they are negative. In the media, especially news, teenagers are portrayed very negatively.  2. Father-of-three, 31, was burned alive when two teenagers threw a flare into his car as he slept in it while waiting to see his children The image used in the article is ...