contexts and representation

Question 1

when was the disease first identified?

Answer 1

in December 2019

Question 1

what is the covid-19?

Answer 1

global pandemic

Question 2

when was the pandemic declared?

Answer 2

in March 2020

Question 3

what was clear about the mass immunisation programme?

Answer 3

it was essential to help prevent the spread of disease

Question 4

what did the world saw at the start of 2020?

Answer 4

the world saw unprecedented levels of funding
for vaccine research and development (R&D

Question 5

what has UK became by December 2020?
why was it astonishing?

Answer 5

UK became the first western country to license a vaccine against Covid, which is astonishingly fast given that, on average, a vaccine usually takes 10–15 years to accomplish

Question 6

what had the NHS delivered by January 2021?

Answer 6

elivered more than 1 million vaccinations, colloquially known as jabs

Question 7

what happened on 23 June 2016?

Answer 7

citizens of the UK voted to leave the European Union

Question 8

to leave the EU, what was it nicknamed as?

Answer 8

Brexit

Question 9

what was the vote?

Answer 9

very close with 51.9% voting leave and 48.1% voting remain

Question 10

what was Boris Johnson a figurehead of?

Answer 10

figurehead of the Leave campaign, which The Sun newspaper supported

Question 11

what was Winston Churchill rallying speech during ww2?

Answer 11

quoted Horatio Nelson, “England expects that every man will do his duty”

Question 12

how was Winston Churchill speech altered on a world war 2 poster?

Answer 12

“Britain expects that you too, this day will do your duty” on a World War Two poster and has now become a much-quoted phrase in the tabloid press

Question 13

why is Kate Garraway a popular TV broadcaster in the uk?

Answer 13

co-hosted Good Morning Britain since 2014, and appearing on numerous shows from Strictly Come Dancing to I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here

Question 14

what happened to Kate Garraway’s husband?

Answer 14

left seriously ill after contracting covid-19

Question 15

who is Gary Lineker?

Answer 15

former England footballer and now a popular sports presenter on BBC’s Match of the Day

Question 16

how many followers does Gary Lineker have on Twitter (X)?

Answer 16

8.5m

Question 17

how much did Gary donated to the British Red Cross emergency and why?

Answer 17

140.000
in response to the coronavirus crisis in the uk

Question 18

what had the sun nominally supported in its early years?

Answer 18

he Labour party (but has moved back and
forth between Labour and the Conservatives)

Question 19

what is the sun described as having today?

Answer 19

political allegiance to the Conservative party and does not support the EU

Question 20

what has the paper always been very vocal in?
how?

Answer 20

telling its readers how they should act, whether voting, during lockdown or getting vaccinated

“Boris ticks all the boxes” in 2019
“Stay home” in 2020
“As 1.5M miss vax… don’t blow it Britain!” in 2021

Question 21

how has the news media played a crucial role during the pandemic?

Answer 21

communicating public health and policy information

Question 22

what does traditional newspaper coverage and representations have?

Answer 22

issues were important amidst increasing disinformation and conspiracy theories spread online

Question 23

why is militaristic language so embedded in the government and media’s representation?

Answer 23

so embedded in the government and media’s representation of the medical world that this has come to be normalised by audiences

Question 24

how is the covid-19 related to using militaristic language?

Answer 24

Hospitals are the ‘frontline’, healthcare workers are ‘heroes’ and we ‘fight’ and ‘battle’ disease

Question 25

when did vaccine rollout?

Answer 25

December 2020

Question 26

why did the NHS worked in phases?

Answer 26

prioritise the population according to vulnerability and age

Question 27

what was uk’s rollout considered as?

Answer 27

among the fastest in the world

Question 28

what is covid-19 represent as on the front cover?

Answer 28

an enemy on this front cover with media language framing the pandemic as a war

Question 29

how is covid a disease to “conquer”

Answer 29

it is in line with their previous representations of the pandemic

Question 30

why is such language used in this context?

Answer 30

to motivate and inspire action in the audience, encouraging them to join the “Jabs army”

Question 31

how is the idea that covid is an invader reinforced?

Answer 31

with The Sun’s use of nationalistic imagery, including the Union Flag and Big Ben

Question 32

what is represented as a positive action by the sun?

Answer 32

getting vaccinated

Question 33

how the positive action clear in?

Answer 33

in their repeated call for readers to support the roll
out of vaccinations, “Join our jabs army”

Question 34

how are they supporting the vaccination programme?

Answer 34

encouraging the public to join their campaign making it clear that when the reader’s age group is allowed to get vaccinated, they should

Question 35

what does the use of endorsements, along with ‘the sun says’ imply?

Answer 35

the reader should trust its viewpoint

Question 36

what is getting vaccinated represented as?

Answer 36

a matter of urgency with the combined use of the clock face, imperative verbs, and terms such as “rapidly”

Question 37

what does it suggest that Brexit is represented positively in the off lead?

Answer 37

that this political decision has brought “newfound freedom” to the uk

Question 38

what does the terms “heralded” and “dawn” imply?

Answer 38

Britain has a great future away from the EU. This is in line with The Sun’s pro-leave, isolationist ideology