George Gerbner

George Gerbner - Repeated patterns of representation can shape views.

Muslims are often represented as 'bad' people in the newspapers normally attacked with heinous remarks and singling out Muslims rather than the average white male.
















With politics, certain politicians like Corbyn get attacked for supporting their party, and because the newspapers are not fond of the views of the labour party they go for the spokesperson to attack.
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Tabloid vs Broadsheet

Tabloid
-Images
-One main headline
-Pun titles
-Gossip
-Less formal
-Less informative
-Colourful
- Big font sizes

Broadsheet
-More informative
-One main image
-Bigger size generally
-Subheadings
-Titles
-More trustworthy

There are many differences between a tabloid and a broadsheet, this can be seen visually by the pictures to the right with the first and more colourful one being a tabloid and the second being a broadsheet.

First difference in the two as previously mentioned is the way it is presented like how the tabloid front cover has a colourful picture with the main headline taking up pretty much the entire paper while the broadsheet also has a picture that takes up a lot of the paper however its main headline is a lot smaller and the majority of the front cover is sub text that is a lot more informative than all of the headings that are being presented on the tabloid, so that a broadsheet is seen as a lot more formal than the tabloid because around 25% of the paper is covered by a picture while the remaining 75% is covered with headings and informative text.

Also with tabloids the news that is presented is seen as not useful and completely uninformative because most of the time it is information like celebrity gossip this is called soft news which is something you wouldn't expect would make it in the news while with a broadsheet it displays what you would call hard news which is what you would expect to be the main story and is seen as more serious than tabloids.

Newspaper comparisons

Who was involved?	Dead Baby Gabriel. Bidhya Sagar Das (Murderer) Mihal Manea (Neighbour)	Bidhya Sagar Das (Murderer) Cristinela Das (Mother) Gabriel (Dead baby)
What Happened?	Thor got his hammer. Twin seriously injured whilst one dead Neighbour claimed saw mother run across street whilst screaming “My Kids!!” Police were called at 11.10pm Boy pronounced dead at 1am	Baby dead at early hours of day Thor, 33, ‘dad’ was arrested
Where Did It Happen?	Finsbury Park, North London	Hackney, north London
When Did It Happen?	Police were called at 11.10pm Boy pronounced dead at 1am	11pm Saturday
How Did It Happen?	Thor was too jealous. Hammer went into baby Baby went to sleep…	Thor has mental problem Hammer from back of 3 story building
Why Did It Happen?	Thor was too jealous	Jealous

Study

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zy4rfrd/test

A test was done after my studies to test my knowledge on the subject

Online newspapers

Advantages of online newspapers

- Environmentally friendly?
- Live updates
- Your own personal account to choose topics - personalising it
-Accessibility - phones, tablets, pcs more pactical
- free
- contact papers quickly
- comments on news stories
- more interactive, video
- easy to share articles

Disadvantages

- Holding something
- Internet needed
- can't keep the story
- less accessible for older generations
- much more information in newspapers
- website crashes, technical errors
- pop ups
- eye strain