7) Newspapers (component 1) Flashcards

Question

How does The Mirror portray Boris Johnson as a recklass villain?

Answer 1

. "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

Answer 2

. "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

Answer 3

. "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

Answer 4

. "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

Answer 5

. '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

Answer 6

. “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

Answer 7

. “The more people see the more understanding they will be about what precisely went wrong” - hoping that the audience will forgive 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 . "Gray blaes drinking cltre" as thogh anyone cold have done it as thogh we all did the sae

Answer 8

. 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 . 'featres ale leaders like ptin and biden'

Answer 9

. “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

Answer 10

. '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

Answer 11

. 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

Answer 12

. when News of the World hacked phones for news stories . illie Dowel was rdred bt becase her phone was being hscked it showed activity, so the police searhed for a issing person