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Daily Mail case study: Blog tasks Work through the following tasks to complete your case study on the Daily Mail and specifically the 21 September edition of the newspaper.  Daily Mail analysis: Friday 21 September Use your notes from the lesson to answer the following questions. 1) What are the front page stories on the 21 September edition of the Daily Mail? - The EU and the Royal Family (Meghan Markle). Meghan Markle is shown with her mother and Theresa May is shown being slightly humiliated by other members pf the EU seeing as they believe her Brexit plan will not work. 2) From your analysis in class, what other stories and topics are covered in this edition of the Daily Mail? Keeley when she was a model  Teenager dies  in horror smash when a car flies off the road and crashes through a fence into a suburban home  3) Media language: Write an analysis of the construction of the Daily Mail homepage: Page design, font, text, images, conventions, hard n...

# David Lammy says police stop and search is ‘unjust’ and ‘entertains a racist fantasy’  David Lammy is a member of Parliament and a Labour Party Politician who saw a problem with the police system through his own experience. He says that the police force targets black people and it 'entertains a raci st fantasy'.  Mr Lammy recalled being “frisked, groped and harassed by the police” when he was 12 years old because officers said he matched the description of a thief. He was innocent however this memory had stay with him and he says, looking a the statistics clearly 'nothing has changed'. He says that  “As we speak, there will be young, white middle-class men smoking a joint at a campus university or having cocaine delivered to their dinner parties, but the police will be nowhere in sight.”, he strives for great change. Hard news or Soft news? In my opinion this is hard news seeing as it has to do with the law and the people who enforce it. It is a serious...

Mick Philpott complains about going jail after him and his wife planned a house fire in hope for a bigger house Mick, Philpott started a fire in his home in 2012 but says that he is "completely innocent" and explains to the court that his children were his life. Him and his wife both wanted a bigger house and thought this would be the smartest way to achieve that.  Five of his children - Jade, 10, John, nine, Jack, seven, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five - died at the scene while 13-year-old Duwayne died in hospital two days later. All died of smoke inhalation. He is determined to fight his case and has even been looking for a solicitor to help him get rid of his 17 year jail sentence. Mick Philpott's surviving son says that there is no way his father could have done this. News Values? Negativity: It is an extremely negative story so it interests people ( 6 deaths of children and man going jail) Hard or soft news? In my opinion it is hard news because it ...

What are the arguments for and against statutory regulation of the newspaper industry?  I agree that there should be statutory regulation of the newspaper to a high extent for many reasons. There has been many cases in which people have been victims of the press and their privacy has been invaded however they do not get the justice they deserve. One significant case was the Millie Dowler case where her parents were given false hope that their daughter was still alive after being missing for a while. Millie Dowler who was abducted and abused then murdered (strangulation) one day after school and her parents had reported her missing, unaware with what had happened to their daughter. The News of The World took it upon themselves to hack into Millie Dowler's phone which led the police in charge of the investigation to believe that Dowler was still alive seeing as her phone was active, little did they know, The News of The World had hacked into Millie Dowler's phone. This ...

Autistic teen is locked in solitary confinement in a care home  A 17 year old girl called Bethany has been kept in solitary confinement for 9 months and has not step foot outside, even her father has to talk to her through a door and she is fed food through a hatch. She has diabetes and very rarely laughs or smiles. This isolation led to her self harming herself with a ball point pen which was left stabbed in her arm for many weeks however when her case came to light it was removed. Soft news or Hard news? In my opinion this leans more into hard news seeing as the lack of care for this female could and should be seen as a crime and it also looks down on Britain's care system (political). How does it appeal to an audience? In my opinion this could link to personal identity (blumler and katz) because many people have been treated badly or people that can relate because they are in care therefore this news story will interest them se...

Viral Hoax on Facebook has been sent many people Facebook users have been receiving messages saying  'Hi....I actually got another friend request from you yesterday...which I ignored so you may want to check your account. 'Hold your finger on the message until the forward button appears...then hit forward and all the people you want to forward too....I had to do the people individually. Good Luck!'. This message has been sent to thousands and there was a worry that it was hacking peoples accounts or taking personal information from Facebook users however, Facebook say that it did not negatively affect anyone, They simply ask that people delete the message if they have received.   Soft or Hard news? In my opinion this is not hard news seeing as it did not result in people getting hurt, it has nothing to do politically, economically or environmentally. It is news about a very successful social media sight therefore I see it as soft n...

Newspaper regulation: blog tasks Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? 130 journalists and in ten years time he ( Perch) says if it is still in print it will have a small audience and it will be very expensive 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? "I don’t think regulation is the  answer. I know many people point to  Leveson and the fact he held a massive  inquiry, but I don’t think he looked  carefully enough at what is happening  in the regional press or in small weekly  papers. I think his form of regulation is  unacceptable, and...

Newspapers: News Values Galtung and Ruge defined a set of  news values  to explain how journalists and editors decide that certain stories and photographs were accepted as newsworthy, while others were not.  The following list is adapted from their work: Immediacy:  has it happened recently? Familiarity:  is it culturally close to us in Britain? Amplitude:  is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people? Frequency:  does the event happen fairly regularly?  Unambiguity:  is it clear and definite? Predictability: did we expect it to happen? Surprise:  is it a rare or unexpected event? Continuity:  has this story already been defined as news? Elite nations and people:  which country has the event happened in? Does the story concern well-known people? Personalisation:  Is it a personal or human interest story? Negativity:  is it bad news? Exclusivity:  do any other newspapers have this story...