News (Right Vs Left) Flashcards
Tabloid newspaper
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
Broadsheet Newspaper what
bigger newspapers, more advanced use of lang, more serious, aims to inform
- the times, the daily telegraph, guardian
4 parties of newspaper
- green
- labour
- liberal
- conservative
daily mirror
a tabloid newspaper
- left wing
- cares for climate
- collective
the times
broadsheet
- right wing
- dont like china
- blamming immigrants
Fake news
is propaganda, misinformation to make people think a certain way
Why does fake news exist?
- 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)
How does fake news spread?
- Rapidly due to social media and mobile phones
- Circular reporting
What is circular reporting?
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.
Polarisation
Idea that the world can be split into two groups politically and the opinions of each side are opposing eachother.
conventions of a newspaper
- masthead
- incentive
- pug
- splash head
- leader
- dateline
- kicker
- byline
- strandfirst
- cross-reference
the right values (conservatism)
- individualism => see self and family as most important
- traditional gender roles
- free trate and enterprise
- accumulation of personal wealth
- strong law and order
The Left values (socialism)
- collectivism (see self as part of a group)
- nationalised industry (belonging to everyone)
- social welfare and benefits
- negotiable social roles
- distribution of wealth
construction of a Times broadsheet
- 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
font of Times newspapers
- serif font (times new roman) => tradition, to show trad values