Wednesday 16 January 2019

OBSERVER ONLINE: MESSAGES & VALUES Q.9

Study the online newspaper extract to revise exam Q. 9 (below).
To make this prep quick and easy, all you have to do is copy / paste the text below and identify all relevant articles or features that represent the newspaper's values:
1.  The major use of newspapers is to offer a sense of knowing
what is going on in the world.The Observer knows that its readers are serious and interested in international affairs. This is evident in hard news articles about..... politics / american politics with Donald Trump 
2. The Observer meets its audience's need for a range of cultural, sporting and artistic news. It provides these with... music .. 2019 BRIT awards nominations such as Dua Lipa 
3. The Observer does not shy away from 'difficult' issues that could make uncomfortable reading, such as... Saudi girl captive and 'fearful' while preparing for Iran Jail hunger strike.
4.  The Observer has sections which are designed to appeal to
different types of readers.The Observer reflects the diversity of its readership in articles on... business , politics and entertainment 
5.  Newspaper readership can still be used as a symbol of one’s

social identity. The term ‘Guardian reader’ connotes a certain
type of social attitude and The Observer  similarly reinforces
a set of social and political attitudes, and thus identity, in its
representations. For example, Observer  readers like to think
of themselves as open-minded and this is reflected in the
Observer’s practice of allowing both sides of an argument
equally to be put when the newspaper is clearly on one side
of this argument. There is an example of this in.... The article talks about Labour and how they will be voting which shows the views that the observer have and that they are more left wing as they support labour.


6.  The entertainment function of newspapers may take the

form of humour.  It may take the form of diversion into

a celebrity world of ‘glamour’. It may take the form of human
interest stories in which readers are invited to sympathise with
the subjects of the article. Newspapers further offer games,
puzzles, crosswords and the like. At the higher end, sections
such as the New Review in the Observer may offer the pleasure

of extremely well-written think pieces and literature reviews. An example of this is.... talking about music such as the BRITS nominations. 

1 comment:

  1. Mark 10 out of 15
    1. There are additional examples of hard news, such as 'Taking back control', 'MoD sends planners to ministries over post-Brexit border fears'
    2. Also article on 'Roma' film; 'body image' article on leading men in tv and film
    3. Also "prisons and probations'; cocaine trade?
    4. Mix of news reports on international and domestic affairs (eg.Christianity in China) and opinion pieces (Sadiq Khan); picture archive. You are not precise on this answer!
    5. I agree.

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