Sheldon Media A level exam blog - Mr Bush

  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? Dawn of Brexit  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 a right-wing, socially and economically conservative, mid-market tabloid that champions traditional British values, supports the Conservative Party, and often adopts populist, Eurosceptic, and anti-immigration stances. It positions its audience through sensationalist, emotive language and "them vs us" narratives, encouraging a "preferred reading" that reinforces, for example, traditional family values, support for the monarchy, and a demand for strict law and order...

  Newspaper regulation: blog tasks 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?    Once employed 130 journalists, in ten years  time? Perch thinks that if it is still in print, it will be weekly, extremely expensive, and have a very  small circulation; if it is online only the likeliest outcome it will be unlikely to make money,  and so would employ as few as five or six staff. 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? The biggest single issue is that something illegal was going on which obviously should not have been , and which wasn’t dealt with by the police, and unfortunately th...

 Part 1: Clay Shirky lecture Go to the Nieman Lab webpage (part of Harvard university) and watch the video of Clay Shirky presenting to Harvard students. The video is also available on YouTube below but the Nieman Lab website has a written transcript of everything Shirky says.  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? Accountability journalism prevents, or reveals, civic corruption, which is necessary for a functioning democracy. It  also acts as a mechanism to "discipline elites" by keeping them in check.  Shirky uses  the story of ...

 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?  The higher a news story scores on this list, the more likely it is to become news. Using the example pictured, Afghanistan, in terms of geographical proximity, is far away from the U.K. but when a young British soldier dies, the story gains cultural proximity as British audiences see the soldier as ‘one of their own’. On an intensity scale, the first female officer to be killed is considered more newsworthy as it is unusual. The ongoing war in Afghanistan is a continuity story but often the interest in the story lies in that fact that deaths, even though inevitable, are not predictable; a bomb disposal expert may be...