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News (Right Vs Left) Flashcards

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Tabloid newspaper

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tend to be easier to read, more photos, report on major news, better sellers, uses biased or emotional lanugage
- the sun, the mirror, the star

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Broadsheet Newspaper what

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bigger newspapers, more advanced use of lang, more serious, aims to inform
- the times, the daily telegraph, guardian

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4 parties of newspaper

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  • green
  • labour
  • liberal
  • conservative
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daily mirror

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a tabloid newspaper
- left wing
- cares for climate
- collective

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the times

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broadsheet
- right wing
- dont like china
- blamming immigrants

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Fake news

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is propaganda, misinformation to make people think a certain way

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Why does fake news exist?

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  • To undermine or misrepresent a specific person, company or idea
  • to spread misinformation that changes peoples opinions on specific issues (climate change, vaccines)
  • Foreign countries may spread misinformation to destablise governments or political environments (russia supporting trump and spreading info bout clinton)
  • To make money through advertising (like from conspiracy theories)
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How does fake news spread?

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  • Rapidly due to social media and mobile phones
  • Circular reporting
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What is circular reporting?

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A false confirmation, is a situation in source criticism where a piece of information appears to come from multiple independent sources but in reality comes from one source.

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Polarisation

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Idea that the world can be split into two groups politically and the opinions of each side are opposing eachother.

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conventions of a newspaper

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  • masthead
  • incentive
  • pug
  • splash head
  • leader
  • dateline
  • kicker
  • byline
  • strandfirst
  • cross-reference
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the right values (conservatism)

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  • individualism => see self and family as most important
  • traditional gender roles
  • free trate and enterprise
  • accumulation of personal wealth
  • strong law and order
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The Left values (socialism)

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  • collectivism (see self as part of a group)
  • nationalised industry (belonging to everyone)
  • social welfare and benefits
  • negotiable social roles
  • distribution of wealth
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construction of a Times broadsheet

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  • Large yellow font => capture audience
  • big masthead => shows important
  • coat of arms => represents royal family and tradition
  • ‘last chance on climate’ repair in todorov, climatic fight scene
  • boris and macron not looking at eo => in opposition
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font of Times newspapers

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  • serif font (times new roman) => tradition, to show trad values
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how does the Times link to uses and gratification theory

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Surveillance - find out what’s going on
Diversion - stories are interesting, funner than daily life
Personal identity - political views
Personal relationships - to share political views with others

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Differences between how climate change is addressed in DM vs TT

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  • thunberg in mirror, left wing, not in times (positively)
  • green in DM, represents environment, more focused on environment than TT
  • DM represents youth playing an active and supportive role => children can help
  • no pictures about climate in TT, is in DM, tho there are pictures of boris, suggesting policians are cared for more than the climate
  • more extreme/sensationalist language in the DM, climate is seen as more dire
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sensationalism

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presenting information to provoke publics interest and excitment at the expense of accuracy
(escalating the scale of the thing to make it more interesting)

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How have social and cultural contexts influenced reporting about the royal family? (DM)

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  • lead photo focuses on a human interest royal family story:
  • sibling conflict, making the royal family seem relatable to the reader
  • creates a feeling of normality (disagreements exist in all families)
  • royals are normalised; changed social context contrasts a time when the royals were treated reverentially by the media
  • story inside is mainly conjecture and gossip, newspaper has little basis in new info yet sell copies just by being about the royal family
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How have social and cultural contexts influenced reporting about the royal family? (TT)

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  • photo of Duchess of cambridge is prominnent, same with DM, but there is no headline, suggesting the social value placed on her as an attractive, sellable member of the RF valued above the Duke of Sussex.
  • there is an emphasise of how the women in RF look like rather than what they do or say. Contrasts the rep of male royals and reflects dominant values about gender.
  • caption explains the nature of the R engagement, factual reference to location of the princes => emphasis on the R duties as representatives of the UK, focuses on cultural value
  • same photos on DM, but different story => focuses on the official R business rather than internal family matters => values the cultural significance of anzac day and the involvement of the RF
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How does the front page of DM appeal to target audience?

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  • left centre tabloid with wokring class TA
  • prefers human interest stories, photo stories and celebrities
  • features a variety of fonts in diff sizes and colours => visual interest.
  • sans serif fonts predominant, connotations of youthfullness, informality and modernity => appeals, easy to read
  • headline in block capitals to ‘shout’ at the reader, signifies importance
  • headline is a dominant signifier => interest audience whom have children of school age => maslow’s hierachy of needs can explain the appeal, stories focuses on parental worries
  • uppercase red typography reinforces terror of the story
  • informal language => easy to understand, non threatening
  • overlays and overlaps (bleeds) => avoids a boxy look, integrates other elements, sense of excitement
  • dynamic and colourful layout, high proporiton of space given to images => managable to read
  • stories are presented in a straightforward, easy to understand style => simple messages
  • use of pet/first names for royals => make them more relatable to the working class

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