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
Sun
formerly ‘Daily Herald’ (1911), popular, superficial
John Reith
national radio established in 1922 under Reith, BBC, first director-general of the BBC
Ofcom
office of communication
mid-market
between ‘quality’ and ‘popular’ papers, e.g. Daily Mail, Express
‘free newspapers’
published weekly on local bases, financed by local ads., e.g. Metro
Private Eye
periodical paper, weekly journals
Murdoch
owns News International
World Service
BBC’s external services
Channel 4
advertising-financed terrestrial TV channel
