7) Newspapers (component 1) Flashcards
What is a Tabloid Newspaper?
. a newspaper with an image lead design, which tends to be less formal
What is a Quality Newspaper?
. a text lead newspaper which is more formal
What is a Masthead?
. the large title at the top of the newspaper on the front page
What are Columns/Column inches?
. when the article is written in columns on the newspaper
What is a Byline?
. the name of the writer which appears underneath the title of the newspaper
What is a Headline?
. the text indicating the content of the article
. typically providing a breif summary
What is a Banner Headline?
. a headline in large letters running across the entire width of the first page
What is a Subheading?
. a mini headline given to a paragraph within an article
What is a Lead/Lead Paragraph?
. an opening paragraph that gives the audience the most important information of the news story
What are the 5 W’s of a story?
. Who
. What
. When
. Where
.Why
What is a Caption/Cutline?
. the words under a photograph describing it
What is a Cover Story?
. the main/feature story that appears with a picture on the front cover of a newspaper
What is a Feature?
. a longer piece of writing that covers an issue in greater depth
What is an Editorial?
. a journalistic genre that involves expressing opinions on relevant issues/Publications perspective
What is a review?
. offers a critical evaluation of the content , quality and value of the newspaper
What is Serif and Sans Serif?
. Serif - has extended corners on the text
. Sans Serif - doesn’t have extended corners on the text
What is Justified Type?
lines between paragraphs/columns
What is Hard News?
What is Soft News?
. stories that cover events with important real world implications e.g. global politics and economy
. information for entertainment purposes or lifestyle e.g. celebrity gossip and sports news
What is plagerism?
. the use of somone elses idea or language without acknowladgement
what does libel mean?
. publication of false information about a person that causes injury to their reputation
What is misinformation?
What is disinformation?
. information which is fake or misleading and spreads unintentionally
. false information which is deliberatley meant to mislead the audience
What does a tabloid consist of?
. mostly soft news (celeb gossip or sport)
. working class audience (apparent in mode of adress)
. aims to entertain then inform
What does a quality consist of?
. mostly hard news (political, economic, intermational)
. highly educated middle class audiences (formal and sophistocated mode of adress)
. aims to inform then entertain
How many out of the top 10 newspapers are right wing?
. 8/10
How does The Mirror portray Boris Johnson as a recklass villain?
. “ZERO SHAME” “A MAN WITH NO SHAME”
- emphesis on lack of care + sense of responsibility
- pathos/emotive language
. “Boris Johnson is prepared to destroy everything and everybody around him to survive at all costs”
- he is active
- evil/villainous
. ‘Image of BJ with glass of wine in sunny weather next to an image of hospital surgury’
- paints him as a villain
- juxtaposing moods
- shows lack of respect as he is facing away, looking smug + relaxed
How does The Mirror portray party gate as an act of betrayal?
. “12 parties … 300 pictures … and still ZERO SHAME”
- pathos and emphasis on the betrayal
. “the Prime Minister took us all for fools”
- emotionally driven language
- collective “us” seperates good from bad
. ‘photo of BJ with a glass of wine’
- memetics: makes us read it as though we have witnessed him at the party
- champaign is a symbol of wealth and status
How does The Mirror represent Keir Starmer as empathetic and reasonable?
. “I know the real anger people feel about Boris Johnson”
- puts him as one of us, he is the choice
- shares our feelings, deep feeling
- he remains measured, cool, calm + reasonable
. “The British people aren’t fools. They never believed any of it”
- on the side of the people, sympathising with them
- holds the same anger towards BJ
. “Boris Johnsosn” “Keir”
- uses BJ name throughout the paper which distances him
- “Keir” id friendly, one of us, familiarisation
How does The Mirror represent British people as victims, but stoic and united in anger?
. “Those heart-wrenching sacrafices were for a reason”
- sacrafices not for nothing, we worked together to keep each other safe
- emotive
. ‘5 accounts from british people on the right hand of the page’
- united against BJ, common enemy
- “disgusted” “mockery “lie”
- multiple issues from a range of demographics, more representative
- anger is logical not irrational
. ‘image of hospital scene’
- nurses + doctors working, risking their lives, working as a team
- stoic, resilliant, doing whats right + looking after each other
How does The Times represent women as weak and passive?
. ‘Secondary image of woman yawning sat crossed legged’
- implies she is lazy
- sitting crossed legged infantalises her
. “How to be fit”
- creates standards for women to uphold to be found attractive
. “I was bitten by a pandemic puppy”
- “I” makes her the villain
- “puppy” makes her sound weak and silly
How does The Times represent the conservative government as faultless?
. “Gray criticises leadership and drinking culture”
- shifts blame to drinking culture rather than the party’s behaviour
. “Staff at No.10”
- doesn’t name anyone specifically, “staff” is ambiguous and a way of hiding responsibility
. “Four parties”
- doesn’t address the other parties that the other Conservative Party members attended, only the ones Boris Johnson did
How does The Times represent ‘party gate’ as insignificant.
. “The more people see the more understanding they will be about what precisely went wrong”
- hoping that the audience will for their ‘mistake’ as though it was an accident for the parties to occur
. ‘Key image of Boris Johnson frowning’
- feels as though it’s an apologetic face/attempt at an apology in the hopes the audience will forgive him
How does The Times represent men as powerful?
. All the journalists of the articles are men
- this gives men the voice and the power over the narrative, the man’s POV
. ‘Large key image of Boris Johnson’
- he looks smug making us question if he is really sorry
- didn’t face any serious prosecution, man keeps his power
How does The Mirror represent its psychographic appeal as left-leaning, pro-public service and pro-labour?
. “How can we call this care”
- collective pronoun “we” = community, we should all be collectively angry
- left wing socialist view
. “dedicated, caring, but let down by the system”
- subheading creates pathos immediately, “let down”
- creates binary opposition
- refering to the austerity + conservative governments lack of care for public welfare
. “lives at risk”
- at the top of the page
- shows that multiple lives are at risk, broadness of “lives”
- suggests this situation is avoidable, and creates slight optomism that we can fix it, and points us to the future
How does The Times represent its psychographic appeal as right-leaning, anti-public spending and pro-conservative audiences?
. ‘story is on page 6 on the left side so it is less likely to be seen, its a smal section with no picture’
- shows lack of care for the story and the cause
- clearly dont want it to be seen
. “Labour has been criticised … root cause of the crisis”
- points the blame at Labour as they are new government, completely ignoring the 14 years of austerity
- explicit villainisation, ignoring the Conservatives role
. “Patients are being left to die in overcrowded A&E coridors”
- active language implying that nurses purposefully abandonned them
What company regulates newspapers?
What do they do?
. ISPO - Independant Press Standards Organisation
. they hold newspapers to account for their actions that go against the editors code
. they set up the editors code, ivestigate complaints, enfoce fines, corrections and refractions
What was the Phone Hacking scandal?
