The Media Flashcards
yellow journalism
relies on gossip, designed to sell, tabloids/redtops
fleet street
metonym for the British national press
R. Murdoch
owns the media, very dangerous
broadsheets
The Times, The Guardian (most respectable), The Independent, Daily Mail (Royal family), The Sun (gossip, scandals)
tabloids
Daily Mirror, Daily Star (working classes), Daily Sport (bottom, soft porn, nonsense stories)
BBC
called ‘auntie’, always been there, the ‘‘beeb’’
Ofcom
monitors TV and newspapers
pulp fiction
trashy novels, cheap newspapers
media
means of communication that reach/influence a lot of people, e.g. radio, TV, newspapers, magazines (informative, ed., entertainment)
press
all media that print/broadcast news, no funding from the government, no state censorship
advertising
paid announcements in media/press
The Times
1785, report national and international news, ‘quality paper’
Circulation
distribution of copies among readers
tabloid
small paper with lurid news, heavily illustrated
broadsheet
respectable paper, huge sheets