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Revision session - April Fools - Newspaper



Comp 1 Section A - Unseen - Compare something new to something previously studied. - Set editions of daily mirror/times.

Comp 1 Section B - Newspapers in general - industry & audience

To what extent do representations in these newspapers make claims about realism? COMP 1 A

KNEE JERK - Great extent

both of these newspapers make explicit claims that representations of issues and events on their front covers are 'real'.

PLAN

Verisimilitude

Re-presentation - where a person, issue is shown again by the producer for ideological purposes. Every media product is bias in favour of the producer ideologies.

Representations however, can cause harm to the audience, and in particular the group who are being represented.

Context

Times - broadsheet - 10th Nov 2016 - News UK (subsidiary of News International)

Metro - Free Tabloid - DMG Media

Bias by selection
Bias by commission
Verisimilitude

Agenda
Fonts


D - Define key terms. representation and realism (verisimilitude)

A - Argument

C - Context

P - semiotic code of mise-en-scene of trump suggesting victory.
E -

Trump is a populist. He appeals to a lot of people.

Focus on knife crime

'KNIFEMAN'
MES of fist suggesting victory
"THE NEW WORLD"
Sans serif - metro
serif - times

Stereotypical tabloid mode of address

Its giving a relatable scenario to the audience to target the audience.

intertextuality to crime shows like CSI

both are right wing

False representations can damage a group of people (in London it is black teenagers) and cultivate ideologies which aren't true.

A newspaper demonstrates bias with an April fools construction.

Times

Symbolism of US flag constructs Trump as a nationalist which is combined with the iconography of his clenched fist which reinforces this ideology due to the connotations of victory.

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