Blog tasks: Daily Mirror case study
Work through the following questions to complete your work on the Daily Mirror.
Representation
1) What political party does the Daily Mirror support?
The political party that the Daily Mirror supports is the labour party.
2) How does the Daily Mirror usually represent rich and powerful people?
The Daily Mirror goes against the rich and powerful.
3) How are celebrities usually presented in tabloid newspapers like the Daily Mirror? Look at the 'New Bond stars are revealed' story on the front page of the Daily Mirror.
The celebrities are presented in a bad light.
4) How are the royal family presented in the double-page spread 'Kate told Harry to make peace... then they all met up for tea'?
They are represented as mature because Kate does want peace for the brothers.
5) Why do you think the Daily Mirror represents the royal family as a 'normal' family? Why might this appeal to Daily Mirror readers?
This is because they are fighting like normal families and its shows the readers that no-one is perfect.
Industries
1) What company owns the Daily Mirror?
Reach PLC
2) What is the Daily Mirror's circulation in 2020? How many papers did the Daily Mirror used to sell back in the 1990s
From 2019 to 2021 nearly 32 million individuals papers were sold by the daily mirror monthly
3) Why has the newspaper industry struggled in the last 20 years?
It is because the technology has risen up and the new generation use the digital media to access the news.
4) How has the Daily Mirror reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet?
5) List five of Galtung & Ruge's News Values and explain how they link to the stories in our CSP edition of the Daily Mirror.
Comments
Post a Comment