Component 1 Sections A & B – Newspapers SET TEXT: THE DAILY MIRROR

UK NEWSPAPERS

 

WORTHING HERALD

THE SUN

THE TELEGRAPH

THE INDEPENDANT

THE EXPRESS

DAILY MAIL

THE METRO

ARGOS

THE DAILY MIRROR

THE DAILY EXPRESS

THE GUARDIAN

THE TIMES

THE OBSERVER

FINANCIAL TIMES

THE SUNDAY PEOPLE

DAILY STAR

MORNING STAR

 

1-BBC 1

2-ITV

3-THE SUN

4-CHANNEL 4

5-GOOGLE

6-FACEBOOK

 

Main formats of Newspapers

Tabloid and Broadsheet

 

Tabloid-

sensational headlines

informal style

easier vocabulary

larger print

 

The Broadsheet-

informative headlines

larger paragraphs

extensive vocabulary

complex sentences

 

The Sun-Tabloid, right-wing

The Daily Mirror-Tabloid, left-wing

The daily Express-Tabloid, right wing

Daily Star-Tabloid,

The Guardian-Broadsheet, left wing

The Daily Telegraph-Broadsheet,

Morning Star-Tabloid,

The Times-Broadsheet,

The Telegraph-right wing

The Times-right wing

Financial Times-central

The Observer-left wing

 

The British Press-

-run by a small number of right wing moguls e.g. Rupert Murdoch

-they will defend the status quo of which they are part of

-using media to manipulate in order to maintain their position of power/wealth

 

Newspapers, like any media text, have an agender. Most are associated with political perspectives and ideology, as well as specific political parties.

 

Left Wing Politics-

-liberal

-progressive values

-multiculturalism

-inclusiveness

-civil rights

-feminism

-environmentalism

-anti-war

-communism

-marx/anarchism

 

Right-wing politics

-conservative

-traditional values

-capitalism

-privatisation

-‘outdated’ values

-inequality

-hierarchy far right -wing politics=racism/racism (Nazism, KKK etc.)

 

 

industry:who owns the press (patterns of ownership)

Which corporation owns the majority of news and print media platforms?

News Corporations

Rupert Murdoch

Name 2 other newspapers owned by News Corp

The Sun

The Times

Who owns the Daily Mirror?

Trinity Mirror

 

 

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