Newspaper and Periodicals Flashcards
John Taylor
News is a product crafted on a daily basis by the press.
Each paper has its own market - age, education, income, work (so writes to that)
Death is not seen in papers unless is foreign, suggests chaos outside the country & Britain is the norm
Stephen Vella
Can offer info on social, political, economic and culture life.
Shows how societies viewed themselves/world.
Shows what events were revealed to audience
documents views of reporters and was ignored/filtered
Peter Marsh
Found newspapers exaggerated. Did project on football hooliganism and mods & rockers. Violence was exaggerated. Created moral panic.
Virginia Berridge
Content analysis popular after 1930s.
Measures social interests.
1960s, interest in how news was chosen - ‘media bias.’
Increased importance in advertisement
Press can change historic outcome
Facts subjective to time/space newspapers have
Anne Rubinstein
Newspapers assume you know story so don’t always include all the info, they miss it out. Makes it hard for historians.
Newspaper pros
Can show what was thought to be important
Shows roles of newspapers
Can have various accounts of one event
Periodicals show trends
Newspaper cons
Not widely represented
Newspaper assume you know story
Need to consider where newspaper gets news from
could have censorship
(Case Study) Deir Spiegel
German magazine
Top reporter found to have made up stories - at least 14 out of 60 articles
Shows even top sources with good reputations can be unreliable
Stanley Cohen - Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Moral panics over groups like Mods and Rockers. Found young people were targeted with this a lot.
Their behaviours were exaggerated and generalised over every boy.
Football hooliganism, riots, mods, James Burger murder etc
Blamed on absent fathers, dysfunctional families, TV violence.
Even tho rare
