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The Guardian CSP: Blog tasks Work through the following tasks to complete your case study on the Guardian newspaper and website.  The Guardian newspaper and website analysis Use your own purchased copy plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine.  1) What are the most significant front page headlines seen in the Guardian in recent years? Their Brexit Cover. Another cover is Phone hacking. scandal which brought about the Leveson Inquiry. Finally Boris Johnsons Party gate scandal 2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Guardian? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? They are very supportive of Labour and opposes conservatives. However the Guardian is even sometimes critical of Labour especially with their recent tax cuts on benefits for disabled people. 3) How do the Guardian editions/stories you have studied reflect British culture and society? T he Guardian's content re...

  Daily Mail and Mail Online CSP: Blog tasks Work through the following tasks to complete your case study on the Daily Mail and Mail Online. Daily Mail and Mail Online analysis  Use your own purchased copy or  our scanned copy of the Brexit edition from January 2020 , plus the notable front pages above, to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine. 1) What are the most significant front-page headlines seen in the Daily Mail in recent years? "Enemies of the people" The Daily Mail deliberately singling out three judges for their actions against Britain leaving the EU. Quite an aggressive front page, which received a decent amount of complaints, but nothing was ever done. 2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Daily Mail? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? The Daily Mail is politically very far right on the political scale. They represent economically and socially conservative views, whether th...

  Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? There were around 130 staff at the newspaper peak. Keith Perch said he saw the newspaper in 10 years as  if it is still print it will be weekly, extremely expensive, and have a very small circulation: if it is online only- it wont make much money which means employing less people. 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? He regards the incident as abhorrent and not in the standards that newspapers should have. However he also says this isn't a cause for regulation but the hacking is illegal activity that the police should handle.   3) What does IPSO ...

 Story 1: Oval Office Clash with President Trump alongside Vice Presiden JD vance and President Zelensky Story 1: This is an example of hard news. It does reflect the ideological stance of the website. The story is how apparently JD Vance was called in Ukrainian a "Son of a bitch". It could highlight the rising tension and disapproval that the president of Ukraine and newly elected President and Vice president of the US have for each other. It brings attention to the disrespect that President Trump and Vice President JD Vance received during that interaction and how they somehow paint Zelensky as this money hungry leader swearing and disrespecting the both of them. The Daily Mail definitely has a right-leaning editoral stance. It is somewhat an example of clickbait almost creating this narrative of the disapproval that Zelensky has for the two newly elected figures. It can also highlight the new change in relationship of the US and Ukraine. A very important development. This ...

  Play the clip AND read along with the transcript below to ensure you are following the argument. You need to watch from the beginning to 29.35 (the end of Shirky's presentation). Once you've watched and read the presentation and made notes (you may want to copy and paste key quotes from the transcript, which is absolutely fine), answer the questions below: 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important, and what example does he give of this? He gave an example of a church that allowed its priests and staff to essentially abuse underage boys, sexually assaulting around 100 boys since the 1960s in which no accountability or responsibility for those actions to be punished. Since accountability journalism is growing significantly smaller over the years Shirky argues that as in the given church example, allowing journalists to expose and bring light to such incidents is what he deems a social good. It being diminished means that society isn...

  News Values: Blog task Read  Media Factsheet 76: News Values  and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our  Media Factsheet archive is available here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? British soldier causality in Afghanistan. Despite the far proximity, the fact that a British soldier had died means the cultural proximity has increased exponentially its like seeing one of your own pass away and that brings more attention. 2) What is gatekeeping? Gatekeeping is the process where editors and journalists decide which news stories to publish and which to exclude 3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news? Selection of Stories Framing Language and Tone Omission Sources and Experts Visuals and Images 4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers...