News

 Monday 19th of February 

older person might like to hold a newspaper, but younger audience dont want to pay for news

masthead: observer, the masthead shows that this newspaper reposts the small stuff

navigation bar shows us 'News, opinion, sport, culture, lifestyle and more' this is to show

their variety

Headline is used to attract the audience with a short phrase that will intrigue them to read more of the article to see what happens. 

main image is normally a iconic or controversial image that will grab a readers attention without having to read the subheading or stand first so that way people/readers can easily identify an article just by scanning the images

political bias; the observer is left wing as Vladimir Zelenskyy. the Ukrainian president.

The observer focuses on different cultures as it tries to have objective views about a variety of places

do now 26/02/2024

1) the art of arranging letters

2) how elements of the newspaper are placed on the page

3) The words used on the newspaper cover

4) the title design on the newspaper

5) the section at the top of the newspaper

historical case studies

Lo: To evaluate the impact of social, cultural, political and historic contexts on 1960s newspapers.

1) this reveals that Britain's women were still in many sections of society unequal to men.

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04/03/2023 

1) Navigation bar; a link to appropriate

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1) "Lawyers will urge divorce by consent" shows that women have more and more right going to the 1960s showing that the world is slowly moving towards gender equality. 

2) "Wilson Brown market crash" political news story

3) "So polite, this north sea spy game", "American accused of spy frame up". Cold war between America soviet union and Russia. Cold war is a state of political hostility. Between countries characterised by threats, propaganda and other measures of short open warfare.  Historical context of fear of invasion when the use the words 'spy' 'game'

4) "Jackie were very happy" reflects patriarchal society of men being in power. and shows women in only the role of being a wife as this is what life was like in the 1960

7) "Stephen Pollock... with Elizabeth Vambe, 21 Rhodesian - born African

Do Now           11 march 2024

1) civil war

2) vietnam war

3) gender pay gap

4) racial issue

5) cold war

Historical case studies

Lo: to evaluate the impact of social, cultural, political and historic contexts on 1960s newspapers. To structure an exam style response.

10 marks question Q10

explain how broadsheet newspapers reflect the time and historic contexts in which they were published. 

Refer to the Observer front page from October 20th 1966 that you have studied to support your answer.

The Observer time and change through their stories and headlines like racism, sexism and patriarchy shown in the headlines:

Briton shoots for gold is about the olympics, there were white British men wearing black gloves to stand up for race equality, they were then disqualified and the article refered to these african men as 'negroes' this is said to degrade these young African men. This shows that in the 1960s people were wanting equality but some elites did not allow this.

Exam Format

LO: to explore the exam format & content for the news unit.

6) 1 mark question 

7) 4 mark question

8) 5 mark unseen extract short analysis

9) 15 mark unseen extract long analysis

Question 6

 globalisation

Question 7

Newspapers survive due to older audiences, they might not have internet to look on or they just like the feeling of a real paper in their hands, something they can touch, this is because older people will go much easier about life if its simple.

Question 8

race

strong / serious 

In the front cover off the observer the black group are presented as strong and powerful

Question 9

 Language

 Industry

Audience

Representation

genre - type of newspaper

the media language of the observer reflects the genre conventions of a broadsheet