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Newspapers: Daily Mail & Mail Online CSP

  Daily Mail and Mail Online CSP: Blog tasks Work through the following tasks to complete your case study on the Daily Mail and Mail Online Daily Mail and Mail Online analysis  Use your own purchased copy or  our scanned copy of the Brexit edition from January 2020  plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine. 1) What are the most significant front page headlines seen in the Daily Mail in recent years? Lockdown announcement  and Brexit. 2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Daily Mail? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? Positioned in a patricidal way and sides with the nation but doesn't lean towards conservative.  3) How do the Daily Mail stories you have studied reflect British culture and society? They reflect the ideologies of British culture through the new stories. Now  visit Mail Online  and look at a few stories before answering these questions: 1) What are the

Newspapers: Regulation

  Newspaper regulation: blog tasks Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? Where does he see a paper like The Mercury, which once employed 130 journalists, in ten years time? Perch thinks that if it is still in print, it will be weekly, extremely expensive, and have a very small circulation; if it is online only – the likeliest outcome – it will be unlikely to make money, and so would employ as few as five or six staff. 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? The biggest single issue is that something illegal was going on which obviously should not have been, and which wasn’t dealt with by the police, and u