NEWS AND ONLINE MEDIA

News and Online media 

Tabloid

-Tabloids are considered ‘popular press’

-Tabloids are aimed at lower social groupings (C2,D & E)

-Tabloids have a bold layout (there is colour on the masthead, they use a bold typeface and it is easy to read. Usually with large and dramatic typeface and large images)

-Shorter Articles

-Less in depth reporting

-The headline usually includes a pun or a joke

-Focus more on gossip stories to do with celebrities (‘stories of human -interest’)

Broadsheets

-Broadsheets are considered ‘serious’ or ‘ ‘quality’ press

-Broadsheets are aimed at higher social groupings (A,B,C1)

-Plainer layout (Masthead: usually no colour or limited small and subtle images).

-Longer articles.

-More detailed and lengthy reports

-The headlines are more serious and focus on ‘shocking’ rather than making jokes.

-Focuses more on international news as well as politics

Curran and Seaton.  - The idea that the media is controlled by a small number of companies primarily driven by the logic of profit and power. ... - The idea that more socially diverse patterns of ownership help to create the conditions for more varied and adventurous media production

Capitalism (Right Wing Politics)

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labour.   THE CONSERVATIVES ARE CAPITALISTS, the Telegraph and Mail Newspapers believe in Capitalism. 

Socialism (Left Wing Politics)

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management, as well as the political theories and movements associated with them. Social ownership can be public, collective or cooperative ownership, or citizen ownership of equity.   - - THE LABOUR PARTY ARE SOCIALIST and are considering bringing back into state ownership the Rail service.

Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and economic doctrine that emphasises individual autonomy, equality of opportunity, and the protection of individual rights (primarily to life, liberty, and property)

- Guardian newspaper supports many labour policies and has a liberal view on e.g individual autonomy i.e. they support multi-multiculturalism, they advocate  freedom of expression e.g. gender and sexuality.  . 

Barthes:     enigma code, connotation and denotation associated with a sign, open and closed narrative…

Todorov: theory of narrative disruption.

The Telegraph Headline and Splash (UK Internet Laws will be the toughest in the world)  the contents of the article discusses the harmful affects of the internet on children :  discuss using Todorov’s theory how the story links to disequilibrium and an attempt to restore equilibrium.

Levi Strauss:   Binary oppositions

 Task look at the Daily Mail Main Headline:   Discuss the Binary Opposition of the headline “Betrayal of the Brave” how is the Newspaper trying to influence the reader?

Neale: Genre theory: (page 16 revision notes)  covered previously and relates to a shared code linked to a genre (e.g. genre conventions of Broadsheet and Tabloid Newspapers)  However Neale insisted that the genre conventions are constantly changing therefore the Guardian’s transformation to Tabloid format with more human interest stories (page 9 revision notes)  is a clear example of hybridisation)