MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2022
Daily | Media Industries Media Audiences | Social Political Economic Cultural | Paper 1 Section B |
The Daily Mail, launched in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, is an award-winning newspaper that aims to deliver the latest headlines and compelling content to its millions of readers every day – the highest circulation in the United Kingdom.
Jurgen Habermas defined the public sphere as being an imagined community that doesn’t exist in any identifiable space. In its ideal form, the public sphere is “made up of private people gathered together as a public” and articulates “the needs of society within the state”.
According to James Curran and Jean Seaton, between 1927 and 1937, the Daily Mail “almost halved” its coverage of political, social, and economic news in its total output because “the most-read news in popular daily papers were stories about accidents, crime, divorce, and human interest” in comparison to “categories of public affairs news” which had “only an average or below-average readership rating”.