Key Assessment 2 - Newspapers
1)
Both The Times and The Daily Mirror construct representations and reflect the ideology's of the producer. The Mirror is a tabloid newspaper aimed at lower class people. It is owned by Reach PLC and constructs a very different type of representation than The Times Paper. In the front page on the Mirror the main focus is on Theresa May losing her 2nd vote, the ideological viewpoints this shows is that people are fed up with brexit and Theresa May herself. There is a small photo taken from a high angle of her which suggests she is vulnerable. In a tabloid we generally don't see so much political news and its more about popular press, so for them to have included this in their paper means its big news and also shows a different representation of them. The main headline they use could be seen as a bit of a joke, using the word 'MAY' in the headline 'BREXIT MAYHEM', this is written in big bold text to grab the readers attention.
The Times is a broadsheet paper with the slogan 'Britains most trusted national newspaper' underneath its title, this could be controversial but it is seen as a more fair and level headed newspaper compared to the heavily left wing views the Mirror have along with many other tabloids. This is owned by News Corporation and the man in charge of that is Rupert Murdoch. The front page of this paper is quite different with one central image of Theresa May then columns of text all around it. The small size font and when its written in columns suggest this is a much more formal paper with more accurate news that more right wing middle class people tend to read. Stuart Hall's theory of representation suggests that everything is represented in different ways and we can see here by the two front pages that these papers have mainly differences, which also represents the producers in a different way.
The layout and design are very different; in the double page centre spread on the mirror paper there is a large photo of May with here hands held up as if she was surrendering. there is also lots of text but it is spread out much more and uses boxes with facts and information in to break up form the rest of the text. There is much more colour and also more photos for example the two photos of the other MP's at the time, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corben. Whereas in The Times we can see a very large photo of May and a large headline 'Driven to Dispair' the lexis used here is an alliteration making it catchy and it is anchored by the photo of may looking in dispair. The photo is taken far away and most likely zoomed in creating a grainy look and shows she didn't know it was being taken at the time. There is use of a proatic code, the action of Theresa May driving could connote the fact she is driving the country up the wrong way and people are getting fed up with her inablitly to secure a 2nd deal. More of Roland Barths semiotic codes are used for example enigma codes are embedded throughout making people wonder whats going on making them read on into the article.
2)
a- Conglomeration is when two or more companies join together from different industry.
b - The first issue with conglomeration is that there could be a lot of bias opinions that not only effect one company but many more as they are now joined together. The second issue could be that they will have their own set of regulation rules and because they have more power it would be harder to regulate them.
c- Regulation in the Newspaper industry is effective and is very much needed. Sonia Livingstone and Peter Hunt's theory of regulation shows this. Regulation is a set of rules that should be followed, there are laws that must be followed, and others that are just guidelines to follow. There is an institution where people can complain about anything they read that they feel should not be there, and it is there duty to sort it out and make sure they are applying to the regulations and this is why it is so important to have them. Although it has its issues for example not being as easy to regulate the big powerfull media conglomerats as they are seen to have more power in the industry; Curran and seatons theory of power in the media industry also talks about this. An excample of when regulation was not put in place and not followed was the issue of phone hacking that found journallists and head reporters illegally hacking into phone calls to gather imformation. this was a huge loss in privacy for lots of people involved and so now by introducing much stricter regulations people privacy can be remained.
Both The Times and The Daily Mirror construct representations and reflect the ideology's of the producer. The Mirror is a tabloid newspaper aimed at lower class people. It is owned by Reach PLC and constructs a very different type of representation than The Times Paper. In the front page on the Mirror the main focus is on Theresa May losing her 2nd vote, the ideological viewpoints this shows is that people are fed up with brexit and Theresa May herself. There is a small photo taken from a high angle of her which suggests she is vulnerable. In a tabloid we generally don't see so much political news and its more about popular press, so for them to have included this in their paper means its big news and also shows a different representation of them. The main headline they use could be seen as a bit of a joke, using the word 'MAY' in the headline 'BREXIT MAYHEM', this is written in big bold text to grab the readers attention.
The Times is a broadsheet paper with the slogan 'Britains most trusted national newspaper' underneath its title, this could be controversial but it is seen as a more fair and level headed newspaper compared to the heavily left wing views the Mirror have along with many other tabloids. This is owned by News Corporation and the man in charge of that is Rupert Murdoch. The front page of this paper is quite different with one central image of Theresa May then columns of text all around it. The small size font and when its written in columns suggest this is a much more formal paper with more accurate news that more right wing middle class people tend to read. Stuart Hall's theory of representation suggests that everything is represented in different ways and we can see here by the two front pages that these papers have mainly differences, which also represents the producers in a different way.
The layout and design are very different; in the double page centre spread on the mirror paper there is a large photo of May with here hands held up as if she was surrendering. there is also lots of text but it is spread out much more and uses boxes with facts and information in to break up form the rest of the text. There is much more colour and also more photos for example the two photos of the other MP's at the time, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corben. Whereas in The Times we can see a very large photo of May and a large headline 'Driven to Dispair' the lexis used here is an alliteration making it catchy and it is anchored by the photo of may looking in dispair. The photo is taken far away and most likely zoomed in creating a grainy look and shows she didn't know it was being taken at the time. There is use of a proatic code, the action of Theresa May driving could connote the fact she is driving the country up the wrong way and people are getting fed up with her inablitly to secure a 2nd deal. More of Roland Barths semiotic codes are used for example enigma codes are embedded throughout making people wonder whats going on making them read on into the article.
2)
a- Conglomeration is when two or more companies join together from different industry.
b - The first issue with conglomeration is that there could be a lot of bias opinions that not only effect one company but many more as they are now joined together. The second issue could be that they will have their own set of regulation rules and because they have more power it would be harder to regulate them.
c- Regulation in the Newspaper industry is effective and is very much needed. Sonia Livingstone and Peter Hunt's theory of regulation shows this. Regulation is a set of rules that should be followed, there are laws that must be followed, and others that are just guidelines to follow. There is an institution where people can complain about anything they read that they feel should not be there, and it is there duty to sort it out and make sure they are applying to the regulations and this is why it is so important to have them. Although it has its issues for example not being as easy to regulate the big powerfull media conglomerats as they are seen to have more power in the industry; Curran and seatons theory of power in the media industry also talks about this. An excample of when regulation was not put in place and not followed was the issue of phone hacking that found journallists and head reporters illegally hacking into phone calls to gather imformation. this was a huge loss in privacy for lots of people involved and so now by introducing much stricter regulations people privacy can be remained.
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