Newspapers and Political bias

ARE NEWSPAPERS BIASED?

Yes. Newspapers in Britain are biased towards a certain political side, either the right or left wing. Most of Britains mainstream newspapers are right wing. "The Mirror" is mostly seen as a left wing newspaper and "The Telegraph" as mostly right wing. 

•Working in groups you will identify the Splash (main story)

•You will identify the target audience for  each of these papers using the socio-economic model

•Collectively you will discuss how the papers are representing Brexit, THE DUP and Theresa May.

•Discuss the possible political agendas of the Mirror and the Telegraph in what way do they seek to influence their audience?

The splash is about a deal between the EU, theresa may and the DUP. 

The mirror is for lower class (E-C2 in socio economic class) The telegraph is for higher class (C1-A in socio economic class). 

The mirror shows brexit, the dup and TM in a negative light while the telegraph paints them in a positive light.

The mirror might want to push the readers to a more centerist of left wing view while the telegraph might want to push them to a more right wing view.

“discuss the difference between Broadsheet and Tabloid papers through a comparison of the Telegraph and Mirror 05/12/2017”

Broadsheet and tabloid are two different types of newspapers aimed towards two different types of people. An example of each is "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Mirror". "The Daily Telegraph" is a broadsheet newspaper. Broadsheets are usually more formal and factual with more detail in the headlines, and content within the paper. "The Mirror" is a tabloid newspaper. Tabloids usually use big eye catching photos, and quite often uses humour and short paragraphs to keep the reader entertained. In relation to socio-economic class, people in classes A to C1 would most likely read a broadsheet and people in classes C2 to E would more likely be entertained by the tabloid. 

Both of the newspapers splash (main story, located on the front cover) is about the Brexit deal and includes; the EU, Theresa May and the DUP. The story was about the Brexit deal on the irish border falling through between Britain and the EU.

“The Daily Telegraph” conforms to the conventions of a broadsheet by using formal language and factual information, it is also quite a bit longer than the tabloid newspapers. The public sees “The Daily Telegraph” as a mostly right wing newspaper with the majority voting it as “fairly right wing”. This is demonstrated, as it seems to be in favour of May, using words like “salvage”, showing that the deal may be able to be saved by her.