news and politics

Question 1

who is Rupert Murdoch?

Answer 1

an individual who owns a massive share of the uk media including sky TV, fox news, the sun, the times

Question 2

what is impartiality?

Answer 2

not taking any political side and remain objective

Question 3

curran & seaton’s power and media industries theory

Answer 3

• industry is dominated by the small number of large companies
• media companies are all about profit and power
• the products that are made tend to be repetitive
• if companies are independent they tend to be more creative and diverse

Question 4

broadsheets conventions:

Answer 4

• a lot of text
• cover hard news
• cover internatioal news
• serif font
• more formal language

Question 5

Tabloid (rt) conventions:

Answer 5

• sans serif font
• more colour
• more pictures
• unregulated layout
• more focus on local news
• emotive informal language
• personal stories

Question 6

midmarket (tabloid) conventions:

Answer 6

• cover soft and hard news
• serif font
• closer to red tops
• more photos than in broadsheets
• less text than in broadsheets

Question 7

Red Top Tabloids:

Answer 7

• The sun
• The daily mirror
• Sunday people
• Daily star

Question 8

mid market tabloids:

Answer 8

• daily mail
• the mail
• daily express
• metro

Question 9

broadsheets:

Answer 9

• the daily telegraph
• the sunday telegraph
• the guardian
• the observer
• the times
• the independent
• i

Question 10

2 left wing newspapers

Answer 10

the guardian and the mirror

Question 11

2 centralist newspapers

Answer 11

the independent and the i

Question 12

what is tombstoning

Answer 12

when image doesn’t match the headline

Question 13

what does ‘fickle’ mean?

Answer 13

going with what’s popular

Question 14

how many seats are there in parliament? how many are needed to win?

Answer 14

650/326 to win

Question 15

what is Cabinet?

Answer 15

group of MPs with the most important roles

Question 16

what are the 4 most important governmental roles in the uk?

Answer 16

• prime minister
• chancellor of the exchequer (chancellor)
• home secretary
• foreign secretary

Question 17

5 previous prime ministers

Answer 17

• rishi sunak
• liz truss
• boris johnson
• teresa may
• david cameron

Question 18

labour’s wing?

Answer 18

centre to left

Question 19

conservative’s wing

Answer 19

centre to right

Question 20

right wing’s main features

Answer 20

• admit inequality
• praise private sector
• anti-immigration
• pro brexit (apart from david cameron, teresa may and 1/3d of the party)

Question 21

left-wing’s main features

Answer 21

• praise public sector
• pro immigration
• anti brexit

Question 22

what is the shadow cabinet?

Answer 22

Opposition parties that pretend to hold the position of power and say what they would’ve done

Question 23

what is Lunt and livingstone’s theory?

Answer 23

citizen and consumer based regulation. regulating news online is now nearly impossible

Question 24

which newspaper shut down because of the phone hacking scandal?

Answer 24

news of the world

Question 25

what did leveson enquiry investigate?

Answer 25

phone hacking scandal included the hacked phone of a murdered girls. they deleted the voice messages

Question 26

what enquiry did phone hacking scandal lead to?

Answer 26

leveson enquiry

Question 27

what is IPSO and what they do?

Answer 27

the independent press standards organisation. it regulates newspapers and is formed of people who work for the newspapers

Question 28

what is editor’s code of practice?

Answer 28

the rules set by IPSO that newspapers have to follow

Question 29

what is IMPRESS?

Answer 29

independent monitor for the press that is unlike IPSO, fully compliant with the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry.

Question 30

what is citizen jornalism?

Answer 30

when a person tells/shares anything online and is not paid for it

Question 31

which broadsheets have become tabloid in size?

Answer 31

• the times
• the guardian

Question 32

who created a set of news values in 2017?

Answer 32

Harcup and O’Neill

Question 33

news values

Answer 33

• exclusivity
• conflict
• surprise
• audio-visuals
• shareability
• entertainment
• drama
• follow-up
• the power elite
• magnitude
• bad news
• celebrity
• good news
• relevance

Question 34

clay shirky - end of audience theory

Answer 34

• audiences are active
• they like to speak back to producers
• media is based on interaction

Question 35

why does the guardian uses smaller case ‘t’

Answer 35

it’s more humble, feels less scary and official

Question 36

who owns the guardian and why

Answer 36

GMG - Scott Trust.
To secure the paper’s independence, safeguard the paper from commercial or political interference, and protect TG’s news values of fair, honest, liberal journalism.

Question 37

uses and gratification theory - blumer and katz

Answer 37

our 4 basic needs are gratified by the media
- entertainment / diversion
- surveillance
- social interaction
- personal identitiy

Question 38

how does the guardian fund themselves?

Answer 38

• donations
• reader funding
• scott trust
• subscriptions
• advertisements

Question 39

how does he daily mail fund themselves?

Answer 39

• print sales
• advertisements

Question 40

above the line and below the line marketing

Answer 40

• above the line - reaching mass audience
• below the line - reaching niche audience

Question 41

who owns the daily mail and who owns the guardian

Answer 41

DMGT and Scott Trust

Question 42

what is dual convergence

Answer 42

broadsheets shrinking in size