NEWS REVISION - CONTEXTUAL ISSUES

How are the institutional backgrounds of the two papers different? Who owns them? What are their news values? How do their ideologies differ?

  • The Guardian follows a left-wing institution whereas the Daily Mail follows a conservative, right-wing institution. 
  • The Guardian is owned by the 'Scott Trust'. The Daily Mail is owned by the 'Daily Mail & General Trust'
  • Though a major difference between this ownership is that the Mail has always been owned by the same family (limited news values)
  • The Guardian focuses on hard-news such as politics 
  • The Daily Mail focuses on sensationalised news, with a lighter celebrity focus 
  • Their ideologies can be shown through the genre of each paper, as the Guardian is a broadsheet newspaper but in a physical tabloid format. Thought the Daily Mail is both a tabloid in physicality and content.


 What are the social, cultural and political attitudes of each newspaper?

  • The Mail focuses on celebrity and crime, whereas the Guardian focuses on education and the media


How have changing economic contexts affected newspapers?

  • Both the Guardian & the Mail have online sites and apps which provide constantly evolving news, unlike the traditional print format
  • The Independent newspaper has gone completely online, hence due to the rise in print costs in retrospect to the actually numbers of who is purchasing a physical print copy


 Can you suggest ways that newspapers can affect the social, cultural and political attitudes of society? e.g. How do newspapers shape the audience?

  • The comment sections on online articles can be influential to a consumer after they had read the article, as it allows further opinions on what the article focuses on


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