• released in June 1981
• the specials are a British band
• ghost town spent 3 weeks at number 1 in the uk top 40
• the last song recorded by the original 7 members of the specials
• label – 2 tone
• genre – reggae/two-tone
• music video filmed in London
• directed by Barney Bubbles
• won awards for song of the year and best single

style model 1

For my first print advert to go inside my gaming magazine I will create an ad for a new video game that follows the same genre of games that the magazine writes articles on. I will follow a style model of one of the above images to create a realistic and convincing ad.

style model 2

For my second ad to go in my magazine I will follow this style model to create a print ad for the latest gaming console or device that games mentioned in the magazine can be played on. The second image in the style model shows a gaming console and a game that can exclusively be played on it, I will incorporate this idea into my ad as it advertises two different products in one.

style model 3

For my final ad I will create an ad in the style of a vintage gaming advert to link in with the theme of my double page interview about vintage games however the ad will be for a modern or new game or possibly a reboot of a vintage game so that the theme of the magazine still promotes the newest things going on in the gaming industry.

War Of The Worlds was a book originally published by author H.G Wells in 1898. War Of The Worlds was broadcasted on the radio on October 30th 1938, this was in between both world war 1 and world was 2 and was the year prior to world war 2. the 1930’s was a decade full of unfortunate events, people across the world were still recovering from world war 1, the Great Depression and the Wall Street crash happened and dictators such as Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini gained power. Nazi Germany began to escalate and began its persecution of the Jews and people across the world were anticipating a second war. The 1930’s to the 1940’s was also considered the ‘Golden Age’ of radio and radio was the most used media platform in households across the world.

The War Of The Worlds broadcast was broadcasted in America by CBS radio and was part of The Mercury Theatre on the Air series, almost 80% of households in America owned a radio at this time. The drama performance of War Of The Worlds was adapted to sound like a present day live broadcast, it had no breaks and only had one announcement at the beginning of the broadcast to warn listeners that it was a play and not a real news broadcast, this meant that listeners tuning in mid-broadcast could become slightly confused. The broadcast is an early example of a hybrid-genre as it mixes conventions from H.G Wells’ science-fiction story and News / Documentary type broadcasts.

At the time of the broadcast American citizens will have been very on edge considering the events happening in the world around them; the anticipation of a second world war and the fact that it was Halloween night. The broadcast became famous for allegedly causing mass panic among its listeners however, many doubt the scale of panic that was claimed to have been made as the radio channel have relatively few listeners.

The War Of The Worlds is a historically significant media product as it was an early idea of how the media can persuade and effect peoples thoughts and views on the world around them and can influences a persons thoughts and feelings towards a specific thing whether it be political or an opinion on a book. The War of the Worlds broadcast is also considered an early form of ‘fake news’ as it supposedly had some members of the American public believing that there had been an alien invasion on earth.

Facts about war of the worlds

• Written by H G Wells
• Published in 1898
• Radio broadcasted in 1938
• Broadcasted in the United States on October 30th
• Adapted as a film in 2005
• Science-fiction genre
• the novel influenced the work of scientists such as Robert H Goddard who invented the liquid fuelled rocket and multistage rocket which were inspired by the novel.
• Was broadcasted by CBS radio (Columbia broadcasting company), this company still exists today

historical, political and cultural context

• Broadcasted the year before world war 2
• One of the earliest novels about a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race
• Radio was one of the largest forms of media used at the time
• Nazi Germany escalated and began its persecution of the jews
• Almost 80% of American households owned a radio
• the Great Depression and the Wall Street crash both happened in the 1930’s
• Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were all in power in the 1930’s
• The 1930’s to the 1940’s was known as the ‘golden age’ of radio

Is this broadcast an early example of fake news?

The broadcast was set out to mimic a real radio news broadcast however, before the broadcast started there was a disclaimer informing listeners that it was a performance of H G Wells’ war of the worlds novel. Although for people who may have switched radio stations to the broadcast midway through will have been confused and believed that it was a real broadcast. Radio was a relatively new type of media at the time and people were still learning about what its effects were on the public. Many argue that this broadcast was the birth of fake news as it caused panic in some parts of the United States as members of the public were calling their local authorities to ask for confirmation of the news that had heard on the broadcast. However, the panic that the broadcast was believed to have created is also believed to be a myth.

• Bought from johnston press by daily mail owners (DMGT) for £50 million
• Was bought on 29th november 2019
• In 2018, the i reported an operating profit of £11m from £34m in sales.
• Founded october 26th 2010
• Originally launched as a sister newspaper to the independent 
• Political alignment according to wikipedia : liberalism, centrism
• A daily newspaper
• The i was named British National Newspaper of the Year in 2015.
• The website to go with the i newspaper, inews.co.uk, attracts approximately 300,000 daily unique browsers.
• The circulation of the i in july 2019 was 229,074 on average each year its sales go down 6%

• Habermas argues that the development of early modern capitalism brought into being an autonomous arena of public debate.
• the media ceased to be an agency of empowerment and rationality
• the media manipulated mass opinion

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media watchdog

• classical liberal thought argues that the primary democratic role of the media is to act as a public watchdog overseeing the state

• Habermas is a philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.
• His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere.
• Habermas defines communication as strictly what happens between two or more talking seriously about something that exists or should exist in the world, but no one disputes the validity of the statements or suggestions made by and each other. Communication therefore uses a medium in and through which it occurs: the language.
• The public sphere is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action
• media act in the ‘public sphere’ in the ‘public interest’
• media as watchdog

“a public space between the private domain and the state in which public opinion was formed and ‘popular’ supervision of government was established” (p. 82: 1996)