Tuesday 15 January 2019

Study the online newspaper extract to revise exam Q. 9 (below): copy / paste the text below and identify all relevant articles or features that represent the newspaper's values:


1. The major use of newspapers is to offer a sense of knowing
what is going on in the world.The Observer knows that its readers are serious and interested in international affairs. This is evident in hard news articles about.....Brexit, Donald Trump and the riots taking place in Paris.  

2. The Observer meets its audience's need for a range of cultural, sporting and artistic news. It provides these with...articles about the 2019 Brit awards and about a new Oscar nominated film "Roma". 

3. The Observer does not shy away from 'difficult' issues that could make uncomfortable reading, such as...a Saudi teen's "long journey to safety" and a hunger strike taking place in an Iranian prison. 

4. The Observer has sections which are designed to appeal to
different types of readers.The Observer reflects the diversity of its readership in articles on...Business, politics and entertainment. 

5. Newspaper readership can still be used as a symbol of one’s social identity. The term ‘Guardian reader’ connotes a certain
type of social attitude and The Observer similarly reinforces
a set of social and political attitudes, and thus identity, in its
representations. For example, Observer readers like to think
of themselves as open-minded and this is reflected in the
Observer’s practice of allowing both sides of an argument
equally to be put when the newspaper is clearly on one side
of this argument. There is an example of this in....the  two separate articles about Dag Hammarskjold as well as opinion pieces on Brexit. 

6. The entertainment function of newspapers may take the
form of humour. It may take the form of diversion into
a celebrity world of ‘glamour’. It may take the form of human
interest stories in which readers are invited to sympathise with
the subjects of the article. Newspapers further offer games,
puzzles, crosswords and the like. At the higher end, sections
such as the New Review in the Observer may offer the pleasure of extremely well-written think pieces and literature reviews. An example of this is....opinion articles about Brexit and the article on Body Image. 

1 comment:

  1. Mark 14 out of 15
    1. There are additional examples of hard news, such as 'Taking back control', 'MoD sends planners to ministries over post-Brexit border fears'
    2. Also article on 'body image' on leading men in tv and film
    3. Also "prisons and probations'; cocaine trade?
    4. Mix of news reports on international and domestic affairs (eg.Christianity in China) and opinion pieces (Sadiq Khan); picture archive
    5. I agree
    6. I agree about the body image feature but I'm not sure about Brexit being 'entertainment'.

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