Media Blog 1

1) What are the top five stories? Are they examples of soft news or hard news? -Megan and Harry on holiday on Sydney beach- Soft news -  Britain's most dangerous hate preacher is released from prison under cover of darkness -  two years after he was jailed for supporting ISIS- soft AND hard news -Theresa May having a hard time negotiating Brexit deals- Hard news - Strictly dancer Dianne Buswell SPLITS with her boyfriend amid claims she was 'getting too close to dance partner Joe Sugg'- Soft news - Ant McPartlin 'purchases £5 million house to renovate'... as his divorce from Lisa Armstrong is finalised- Soft news 2) What celebrity content is featured? -Megan and Harry -ITV presenters eg Ant and Dec, Holly Willborough  -Strictly contestants -Chris evans 3) What examples of ‘clickbait’ can you find? - Meghan cradles her baby bump on Sydney beach and wears £880 maxi dress before she and Harry kick off their shoes to join an 'anti-bad vibes circle' ...

1) What are the front page stories on the 21 September edition of the Daily Mail? Meghan Markle and her mother cover the two main stories of the royal family. The other news is Brexit and Thresea May. 2) From your analysis in class, what other stories and topics are covered in this edition of the Daily Mail? "Brexit is the choice of the British people" Hard news and soft news Reinforcing views on Corbyn other Celebrities and stories related Teenager dies in horror smash when a car flies off the road and crashes through a fence into a suburban home  3) Media language: Write an analysis of the construction of the Daily Mail homepage: Page design, font, text, images, conventions, hard news/soft news, news values etc. -serif font masthead- represents traditional views -large may story font, bold, capitals- sets story agenda -headline rhymes, attracts and audience -Meghan Markle- reflects traditional ideologies of conservatives 4) Narrative: How is narrat...

Newspapers: Mail Online case study MailOnline is the most successful English-language newspaper website in the world and one of the most popular news sources in the UK. We need to study MailOnline alongside the newspaper version of the Daily Mail, again from the perspective of audience and industries. This is particularly important in terms of the editorial stance, the internet's influence on media power, the click bait-driven business model and the prevalence of soft news or social-media driven stories. Notes from the lesson Pluralism: a brief introduction Pluralists see society as consisting of competing groups and interests, none of them predominant all of the time. Media organisations are seen as enjoying an important degree of autonomy from the state, political parties and institutionalised pressure groups.  A basic symmetry is seen to exist between media institutions and their audiences, since in McQuail's words the 'relationship is generally ente...

UK house prices: Four in ten young people in England cannot even afford the cheapest homes in their area Half of young adults would need to save more than six months of their income to raise just a 10 per cent deposit, a report by the IFS found round four in 10 young adults in England cannot buy one of the cheapest homes in their area, even if they managed to save a deposit of 10 per cent. By contrast, in 1996, over 90 per cent of 25 to 34-year-olds would have been able to buy a house in their area with a 10 per cent deposit – if they borrowed four and a half times their salary – the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said. Twenty years on, the IFS report found that proportion had fallen significantly. By 2016, only around 60 per cent of young adults would have been able to borrow enough to buy even one of the cheapest homes in their area – leaving home ownership out of reach for 40 per cent. Around half of young adults would need to save more than six months of their post-tax income ...

Disgusting moment residents laugh and clap as they attack police officers with FIRECRACKERS during an arrest in Bradford Appalling footage shows crowd laughing and jeering at unsuspecting officers  Footage was taken at housing estate in Bradford as officers arrested a man Resident can be heard shouting the officer 'f****** jumped out of his boots' Commentators wrote of their 'disgust' after video was posted onto Facebook   Appalling footage shows residents from a housing estate throwing firecrackers at police officers as they carried out an arrest in Bradford. At least two firecrackers were thrown just feet away from the unsuspecting officers, who can be seen cowering in panic and attempting to cover their ears. Astonishingly, Members of the crowd can he heard laughing and jeering as one shouts: 'He f****** jumped out of his boots!' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6252323/Housing-estate-residents-throw-firecrackers-police-make-arrest-Bra...

'Can you not help me with this?': Pregnant mother blasts Asda after she is forced to haul £200 monthly shop up two flights of stairs because delivery driver REFUSES to help her Heavily pregnant Amy Natasha Botten, of Feltham, west London, had no choice but to leave her young son crying in her flat as she went to the ground floor to get her groceries. Clearly out of breath, the mother of one (left, with her son) treks up and down the stairs to pick up her shopping that he been left on the floor in the stairwell. Ms Botten videos herself confronting the driver who is seen emptying the contents of his plastic pallets (centre) and then refuses to take it up to her flat. (right) In the clip, which has been posted on Facebook, she says: 'Can you not help me with this last little bit because my little boy is up there crying his eyes out?' But he responds: 'I'd rather not.' She then says: 'You'd rather not? But this is your job.'  This is an e...

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? Employed 130 journalists and thinks in ten years time if it is still print it will be weekly, extremely expensive  and have very small circulation. 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? Doesn't think regulation is the answer, knows many people point to Leveson and the fact he held a massive enquiry but he doesn't think he looked carefully enough at what is happening in the regional press or in small weekly papers. He thinks his form of regulation is unacceptable and that actually what people really want is to tame the press. 3) What does ...

1 ) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson: Progress:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44841289 Conflict:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/world/middleeast/trump-jerusalem-israel-capital.html Consequence:  https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/29/detroit-school-drinking-water-shut-off/1137785002/ Disaster: Hurricane Harvey - Texas:  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/02/on-the-road-with-hurricane-harvey-what-it-was-like-to-cover-the-storm Prominence:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/trump-to-meet-moon-may-22-ahead-of-planned-north-korea-summit Novelty:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-45604525/more-than-60000-bees-found-in-roof-of-cambridge-hospital 2) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a new...