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Newspapers: The Guardian CSP

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...

Newspapers: Daily Mail & Mail Online CSP

  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...

Newspaper:Regulation

  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 ...

Daily news story

 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 ...