Newspapers – The Daily Mail and The i
regulated by IPSO – strive to maintain ‘credible and accountable journalism’ so ‘to protect the public and freedom of expression’
| the daily mail (06.06.22) | the i (06.06.22) |
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| – national daily tabloid – ‘daily newspaper of the year’ – launched 1896 – owned by DMGT – right wing – yellow journalism – sensationalistic/bias stories – circulation 1.2m in 2018 – ‘Boris Johnson is by a country mile the best person to lead the tory government’ (18) – ‘an outpouring of affection… mystique of the royals is as strong as ever’ (17) | – national daily ‘quality tabloid’ – launched in 2010 as sister paper to Independent – bought by DMGT in 2019 – left wing – circulation 244,000 in 2018 -‘potential leadership candidates… Liz Truss… Jeremy Hunt… Rishi Sunak…’ (4) – provides no opinion on candidates – ‘queen vows to continue as monarch to the best of her ability’ (6) |
| ‘daily news paper of the year’ 2: labelled those plotting against BJ as ‘tory rebels’ 17: ‘an outpouring of affection… mystique of the royals is as strong as ever’ 18: ‘COMMENT… the truth is that Boris Johnson is by a country mile the best person to lead the tory party… labour’s chance of winning an overall majority are vanishingly small… if you think Boris has failings, just wait to see what havoc that lot would wreak’ 20: ‘mail shop… save 10%… shop now at www.mailshop.co.uk/queen’ 24: ‘boris blasts back with health and housing reforms’ 25: ‘UK sends in war crime experts’ (to kiev) ‘get the digital version of the daily mail FOR ONLY £1’ 33: ‘MICHAEL OWEN’S daughter Gemma… makes her debut on ITV2’s Love Island tonight’ | ‘journalism you can trust’ 4: ‘potential leadership candidates… Liz Truss… Jeremy Hunt… Rishi Sunak’ 6: ‘Queen vows to continue as monarch ‘to the best of my ability” 17: ‘britain to send long-range arms for the first time’ (to Ukraine) 16: ‘you should be reading this on the front page’ (about hunger crisis in east africa) 18: ‘opinion matrix’: ‘future of the monarchy’ by the observer claims ‘the reign of king charles withh be a neurotic experience’ ‘my view’ by Ian Birrel – ‘Putin the great? hardly’ 23: ‘proof that the poorest people get hit worse by soaring inflation’ 24: dad-rock cosplay… but its a triumph 26 years later’ (about LG’s Knebworth) 2-3: ‘crime… health… politics… history… sport… people northern Ireland united states’ |
| Livingstone and Lunt: by depicting a bias, right-wing perspective on politics, the newspaper does not fulfil the needs of citizens and does not fulfil IPSO’s aim of maintaining ‘credible and accountable journalism’ Curran and Seaton: newspaper is owned by dmg media who own other titles such as Metro, The Mail on Sunday, which therefore limits diversity as each paper will project the same viewpoint Hall: producers encode right-wing views – pg18 ‘Boris Johnson is by a country-mile the best person to lead the tory government’ preferred – audience accept negotiated – may support tory, but not boris oppositional – could be left wing Hypodermic needle theory: claims the ‘civilian mind is standardised by news’ therefore suggesting the right-wing perspective indoctrinates this ideology into the newspapers audience Bandura: by repeatedly consuming the newspaper, audiences will acquire right wing attitudes – eg constant praise of Boris Johnson may cause audience to support him Gerbner: by repeatedly consuming the news paper, audiences reinforce enculturation of mainstream values ie begin to internalise the values and accept them as the truth | Livingstone and Lunt: left-wing/neutral newspaper ensures audience is not exposed to bias/harmful information, therefore fulfilling citizen orientated approach Curran and Seaton: bought by DMGT in 2019 who own other titles such as Metro, The Mail on Sunday, and will therefore limit creativity Hall: producers do not encode any one perspective to allow audience to form their own opinion, therefore do not have a ‘preferred’ message – pg 6 ‘queen vows to continue as monarch to the best of her ability’ Bandura: newspaper provides more neutral perspective, therefore do not represent repeated attitudes/ideology for audience to aquire – eg pg 4 ‘potential leadership candidates… Liz Truss… Rishi Sunak’ Gerbner: as newspaper does not depict one perspective, does not reinforce enculturation of mainstream values and audience are able to form their own values and perspective |