Newspaper comparison

 

 

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Dierent perspective on newsaper

 

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News Article Analysis

Left wing and Right wing comparison

Right Wing- Conservative

-Conservative supporters: UKIP, BNP
-Papers: Daily Mail, Telegraph
-' You earn what you work for, and you should keep what you earn'
- Survival of the fittest/richest/ best educated
-Believe in privatisation of things like health care, education etc
- Do not want a 'welfare state' , i.e.. benefits etc
- In favour of Brexit
- Anti-immigration
-Many voted against equal rights for gay people, some have 'traditional' views of women and pay
- Often tied to the Church and Christian beliefs

Left wing- Labour 

-Labour supporters: Labour Party, Green Party, Socialist Worker Party (extreme)
-Newspapers: The Guardian, Mirror
-Spread the wealth, more equality
-Taxation of the rich to pay for support for the poor
- Supports nationalisation ( public health, state education)
- Pro-europe, pro-immigration and multi-culture
- Pro-gay marriage, women rights etc
- Pro- environment and worried about climate change

OWEN JONES- '...largely run by a very small group of very right wing media moguls who defend the status quo of which they are part.If you are on the left and want to change society, the media will always come and get you'

Roland Barthes

Barthes codes theory from alexdabriel

Mise en scene

Semiotics, The study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behaviour; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing

  Genre,- 

a style or category of art, music, or literature.

 Denotation, 

t     the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

• the action of indicating or referring to something by means of a word, symbol, etc.

Connotation,
 an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
 
 Psychographic and Demographic Profiling-
Psychographics has been applied to the study of personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles. ... Because this area of research focuses on activities, interests, and opinions, 
Demographics is defined as statistical data about the characteristics of a population, such as the age, gender and income of the people within the population

Theorists

Language
Steve Neale - Genre repetition and difference
Roland Barthes - Semiotics - Denotation, Connotation

Audiences
George Gerbner - Cultivation
Stuart Hall - Reception, how audiences read a media text. Dominant, Negotiated, Oppositional
Albert Bandura - Effects
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Newspaper types

Broadsheets:

- Quality or Serious press
- Large Title 
- One large picture
- What's inside ( quick review) 
- Lots of text 
- Multiple headlines (serious) 
- Politics 
- Lacking in colour 
- Amount of text caters to older audience 
- Sophisticated articles 
- A/B/C1 demographics 

Tabloids:

- Popular press
- Lots of colour
- More reality based (popular culture) 
- Minimal text 
- No long article on the front page 
- Less in-depth reporting 
- Puns and jokes used in headlines
- More focus on human interest stories, celebrity gossip 
- Use of gimmicks e.g. bingo games, free travel tickets, phone-in surveys 
- C2/D/E demographics

The Market

The Market

Popular:

The Sun
The Sun on Sunday
Daily Mirror
Sunday Mirror
Sunday People
Daily Star
Daily Star Sunday

Mid-Market: 

Daily Mail
The Mail
London Evening Standard
Metro
Sunday Express
Daily Express

Quality:

The Daily Telegraph
The Sunday Telegraph
The Guardian
The Observer
The Times
The Sunday Times
The Independent
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Financial Times

Newspapers Codes

Skyline - An information panel on the front page that tells the reader about the other stories inside.

Main Image - The dominant picture often filling most of the front cover.

Lead story - Main story using a splash.

Headline - A phrase that summarises the main point of the article, usually a large print in a different style to catch the attention of the reader.

Page numbers - A system of organisation within the magazine, which helps you find what you want to read.

Caption - Brief text under an image that describes the photo or graphic.

Audience - People who the newspaper aim to sell too.

Folio - Top label for the whole page.

Gutter - The margins in-between pages.

Pull quote - Something taken from within an article.

Classified Ad - Advertisement that only displays text.

Page furniture - Everything on the page except pictures or texts.

Byline - The line above the story which gives the authors name.