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Key word / theme / question etc | Daily Mail (textual evidence) | Daily Mail (institutional evidence) | The I (textual evidence) | The I (institutional evidence) |
Patriotism | Patriotism: Joyous Jubilee ‘We are strongest when united’ ‘Hilarious and barmy… final period was so very British’ ’70 years and her majesty remains the star of the show’ | |||
Globalisation | Its website has more than 218 million unique visitors per month | |||
Racial superiority | ‘You should be reading this on the front page – Have you heard about the hunger crisis in East Africa? Do you know people are dying right now – at an estimated rate of one person every 48 seconds’. | |||
Links to the elite / establishment | The Proprietor is the The 4th Viscount Rothermere is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the company The head office is located in Northcliffe House in Kensington, London. | |||
Militarism (use of military) | ‘Is Putin great? Hardly – His military incompetence must leave his hero Peter I spinning in is grave’ ‘Bodies were hanging from trees’ | |||
The fusion of entertainment and news / information | ||||
Authoritarian / Libertarian | Still uses an Editorial i.e. the voice of one over many? | |||
Nationalism | page 10 ‘how the nation came together’ suggest national harmony – we are all together. | |||
Class Differentiation | ‘Proof that the poorest people get hit worse by soaring inflation’ | |||
Gender | Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, it has a majority female readership, with women making up 52–55% of its readers. The term “suffragette” was first used in 1906, as a term of derision by the journalist Charles E. Hands in the Mail to describe activists in the movement for women’s suffrage. | ‘men as monsters: is that really radical’ | ||
Freedom of people | ||||
Restriction of Immigration | ||||
Religion | ||||
Charity | ||||
Labour Party | ‘Is west-end going broke cause it’s gone all woke’ – anti woke – against left | |||
Social security | ||||
Tory / Conservative | ‘dossier of doom’ – in support of the conservative party ‘Tory rebels’ are plotting course to catastrophe’ – paper is unhappy with ‘Tory rebels’ because they are plotting against authority – Boris Johnson. Ousting the PM now would be nothing less that insanity – right wing paper in favour of Boris Johnson ‘The deluded and dangerous left’ – Editorial ‘Labours chances of winning majority are vanishingly small’ ‘The truth is that Boris Johnson is by a country mile the best person to lead the tory government’ ‘A Tory peer’ p18 is the ‘Comment’ ie the editorial or voice of the paper ‘Only Starmer gains from this clueless plot’ – ie Labour will gain from Conservative divisions over Boris Johnson | The owner of the Daily Mail, Alfred Hamsworth, holds right-wing political vieAccording to a December 2004 survey, 53% of Daily Mail readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats.ws |
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail was founded in 1896
It’s the second highest selling newspaper in the UK
The owner of the Daily Mail, Alfred Hamsworth, holds right-wing political views
He encouraged people to buy the newspaper for nationalistic reasons
A survey in 2014 found the average age of its readers was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15- to 44-year-olds among the major British dailies.
Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, it has a majority female readership, with women making up 52–55% of its readers.
The term “suffragette” was first used in 1906, as a term of derision by the journalist Charles E. Hands in the Mail to describe activists in the movement for women’s suffrage.
It had an average daily circulation of 1,134,184 copies in February 2020. Between April 2019 and March 2020 it had an average daily readership of approximately 2.180 million.
According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of Daily Mail readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats.
The Daily Mail had an average Writing Tone score of 0.38, placing it in the 18th percentile in our dataset. This suggests that articles from Daily Mail are often highly opinionated. This compares to an average Writing Tone score of 0.54 for all 240 news sources.
Over a dataset of 1,000 articles, the Daily Mail scored an average Factual Grade of 39.7%. This is well below the average of 61.9% for all 240 news sources that we analysed. This places the site in the 1st percentile of our dataset — it scored the third-lowest of any news source.
Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail’s editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s.
The I
Daily Mail owner buys i newspaper for £50m
Reliability: 42.46
Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities
Bias: -8.80
Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right
The i is a British national morning paper published in London by Daily Mail and General Trust and distributed across the United Kingdom. It is aimed at “readers and lapsed readers” of all ages and commuters with limited time, and was originally launched in 2010 as a sister paper to The Independent.
The i was also found in a 2018 poll to be the second-most trusted news brand in the UK after The Guardian. In March 2019, the i overtook The Guardian to become the most trusted digital news brand on-line, and third in print. The two then tied as most trusted national news brand for their paper editions in 2020; the i was third on-line
In 2017 and 2019 general elections the I chose not to support a political party
The paper had an average daily circulation of 302,757 in March 2013,
The i website was reported to attract around two million unique viewers at the start of 2018, but that figure had grown 457% by November, with Comscore reporting unique visitors to the website then stood at 5.2 million.
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Right = CONSERVATIVE
Left = LABOUR
Keywords/phrases | Daily mail (textual evidence) | Daily mail (institutional evidence) | The i (textual evidence) | The i (institutional evidence) |
– Racism | ||||
Founded in 1896 it is the United Kingdom’s highest-circulated daily newspaper. The 4th Viscount Rothermere is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the company | – its a British national morning paper published in London by Daily Mail and General Trust. | |||
– Class over nationality | ||||
Tory / conservatism | p2: “tory rebels are plotting course to catastrophe” – this means to me that the daily mail is angry with the rebels. ie its a tory based paper. pg 18: the editorial page shows their own views on the situation with Boris, and states that Boris is the best person to lead the nation by a country mile and with the head title being “Boris is right and Macron wrong. Saving Putin’s face is a mug’s game” | It has a majority female readers, with women making up 52–55% of its readers. | – it is centre and not left or right wing, and supports neither the conservative or the labour parties. | |
The royals | ||||
tax the rich | on favour for poor people, as the main heading displays “Proof the poorest people get hit the worse by soaring inflation”. Its saying that inflation is hitting poor people much harder than the rich. It makes clear that The I is left wing paper as its arguing for the labour party instead of a conservative paper such as the Daily mail. | |||
Economy | pg 45:“Invest in biotech green economy and space to boost GDP”. this is proposing that investing in the green economy and biotech is not only good for the global problems such as global warming. But there main focus is the space to boost GDP, influencing the soaring inflation at this current time. | |||
War | pg 17: “Britain to send long-range arms for the first time” britain sending long range arms for the first time, shows the news on the current stage of the war on Ukraine. It also says “Bodies were hanging from trees, says British paramedic”, This makes it clear that the i newspaper, are interested on the people in the war and their experiences. | |||
military | ||||
– Nationalism | ||||
– Freedom of people | ||||
– Social Security | ||||
patroism | p8 -“shrieks of delight as royal standard flew over palace” platinum jubilee – focuses on the support of the royal family. | |||
traditional values | p19 “is the west end going broke because its all gone all woke” making fun of being woke because the west end is going broke. |
The i:
– its a British national morning paper published in London by Daily Mail and General Trust.
– it is centre and not left or right wing, and supports neither the conservative or the labour parties.
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Key Terms | The Daily Mail | The I |
Patriotism | ||
Racial superiority | ||
Freedom of people | ||
Religion | ||
Self identity | “Pride month is an empty gesture now” This states that people don’t take the LGBTQ movement seriously anymore shown in the skit by American comedian Meg Statler in which she opens a butter shop and comes across as gay by using incredibly stereotypical phrases and actions. Also the US military’s new campaign of inclusivity includes a new poster that was released during pride month which includes ” a soldier’s helmet adorned with six bullet in the colours of the rainbow” this is also contributing to the fact that the pride rainbow is so overused that it has lost all meaning as a symbol of the movement | |
Left Wing | ||
Right Wing | ||
Libertarianism or Authoritarianism | ||
Technology | An article talks about what the government should invest in so that the GDP will increase in this case it is biotech and spacefaring | |
Class | It talks about how the poorest people in the country are the most hard hit by inflation | |
Foreign Aid | With the conflict in Ukraine the western allies have been forced into supplying financial and military aid to Ukraine this has caused Britain to send long range missile systems to a foreign power for the first time. This act shows that Britain stand with Ukraine in the conflict and in the overall war to halt Russian aggression in eastern Europe | |
War | This paper talks about the horrors of war from the perspective of a British paramedic who volunteered in Ukraine the soldier states that “Bodies were hanging from trees” the soldier also states that in the streets dead bodies were “boobie trapped for any allies trying to recover their comrades” including all of these gruesome details could be a way to force the general public into a more anti war view | |
Political Party’s | Focus on the state of the conservative party and its future | |
Monarchy | Heavy focus on the good aspects of the monarchy such as the quote from the queen that she will continue to monarch “to the best of my ability” | |
Economy | Talks about the decline in the economy and inflation and who is affected by it more There is also a section call ” The Business Matrix” which includes articles about lack of employment and taxes on harmful products such as tobacco. It also includes graphs that display inflation and value of certain countries respective currencies | |
Counter Terrorism |
Political Compass
Left = Labour
Right = Conservative
Keywords/Themes | The Daily Mail (Textual evidence) | The Daily Mail (Institutional evidence) | The I (Textual evidence) | The I (Institutional evidence) |
Globalisation | ||||
Patriotism | Front page focuses on the platinum jubilee – supporting the queen and the royal family (“Joyous jubilee”). Pg6 – “Shrieks of delight as Royal Standard flew over Palace” – Supporting the Royal Family | |||
Racial Superiority | ||||
Classism | ||||
Militarism and the justification behind it | ||||
The fusion of info and entertainment | ||||
Religion | ||||
Charity | ||||
Restriction of immigration | ||||
Freedom of people | ||||
Social Security | ||||
Views on schooling | ||||
Older/More traditional values | Pg 19 – “Is West End going broke because it’s gone all woke?” – making fun of being “woke” suggesting that it is the cause of the West End going “broke” | Oliver Duff is the youngest editor for any UK national newspaper ( possible newer views) | ||
Conservitism | Pg2 – “Tory rebels plotting catastrophe” – this means to me the daily mail is not happy with the Tory rebels i.e. its a Tory paper. Editorial pg 18 – “Gimcrack alliance… they are either clueless or simply don’t care”, “Boris Johnson is by a country mile the best person to lead the Tory government” | The newspaper was founded by Alfred Harmsworth in 1896, who whilst he was chairman the papers reported on “The Shell Crisis of 1915” causing the end of the Liberal government of PM H. H. Asquith (Anti Liberal) “The 4th Viscount Rothermere” – Rothermere is a supporter of the former Conservative leader David Cameron (Still conservative?). | Nick Clegg (LibDem) is a fortnightly columnist – Not conservative. Does not endorse political parties during elections (neutral). Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) declared himself a dedicated reader. | |
Business over people (economy over public health) | Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail’s editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s | |||
Ownership | Is owned by the “Daily Mail and General Trust” | Is also owned by the “Daily Mail and General Trust”. – But is being run independently with only one editor. |
The daily mail: Is owned by the “Daily Mail and General Trust” whose chairman is
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Key word / Theme / Questions | Daily Mail | The i |
Globalisation | You should be reading this in the front page (The hidden horror of the hunger crisis in east Africa) (pg 16) | |
Racial superiority | ||
Feminism | women making up 52–55% of its readers, The term “suffragette” was first used in 1906, as a term of derision by the journalist Charles E. Hands in the Mail to describe activists in the movement for women’s suffrage, | Forget the tired stereotype of the grizzled hack in his trench coat and trilby hat, the British press is increasingly being ran by women. (pg 43) |
Business over humans | Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail’s editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s | Invest in biotech, green economy and space to boost GDP (pg 45). The paper and its website were bought by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) on 29 November 2019, for £49.6 million |
Patriotism | A reader suggests that ‘instinctive republicans’ may have become monarchists last week. Vile of the poor, waving flags at a women in a diamond hat. (pg 18) | |
Lack of serious news | ||
Tax the rich? | Proof that the poorest people get hit worse by soaring inflation (pg 23) | |
Militarism | Bodies were hanging from trees, says British paramedic (pg 17) | |
All authority should be questioned. | a right-wing tabloid,[1][2][3] the Mail is traditionally a supporter of the Conservative Party. It has endorsed the party in every UK general election since 1945, |
- The paper and its website were bought by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) on 29 November 2019, for £49.6 million.
2.Lord Rothermere, the chair of DMGT, said that the paper would maintain its politically independent editorial style.
3. Oliver Duff is the youngest editor for any UK national newspaper meaning he is more likely to have younger views
4.The Independent on 19 October 2010 announced the launch of the i (fairly new paper)
5.Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT) is a British multinational media company, the owner of the Daily Mail and several other titles. The 4th Viscount Rothermere is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the company.[1] The head office is located in Northcliffe House in Kensington, London. DMGT’s annual revenue is around £1bn.
6.In the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections, the i chose not to endorse a political party
7. The paper is classified as a ‘quality‘ in the UK market but is published in the standard compact tabloid-size format.
8.The i website, inews.co.uk, was reported to attract around two million unique viewers at the start of 2018,[23] but that figure had grown 457% by November, with Comscore reporting unique visitors to the website then stood at 5.2 million, surpassing the reach of The Times and Huffington Post UK
9.he i has developed a strong national reputation over time. The paper is understood to be highly regarded by many journalists
10.The i was named British National Newspaper of the Year in 2015.