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Politics & The Press in Modern Britain 2019 Election

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Jeremy Corbyn - Labour Boris Johnson - Conservative Nigel Farage - UKIP Liberal Democrats - Jo Swinson Green Party -  Caroline Lucas Newspaper - Political Party -Daily Mail - Conservative party -The Daily Telegraph - Conservative -Daily Express - Conservative -The Sun - Conservative -The Independant - Labour -Daily Mirror - Labour -The Guardian - Conservative How is media language used to portray Corbyn to readers ahead of the election this week? In both The Sun and The Guardian they use media language to convey Jeremy Corbyn negatively. The Sun compares Jeremy Corbyn and being the prime minister to be a nightmare. The size of the word 'Nightmare' is big so they can exaggerate their opinion. They made the picture of Jeremy Corbyn a purplish colour this could possibly connotate a devil and something bad and they picture of parliament in the background is black and white connoting a dark place and going back to the older ways. In the Guardian 'Corbyn in last-...

Newspaper Case Study final

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 The 60's was a time they started to have a changing attitude towards marriage and was a time for free love, this lead to the legalisation of divorce in 1973. This picture is an example of the sexualisation of women in newspaper. This is sexist because it is a woman and not a man and many people would be disgusted by a man being in lingerie whereas everyone loves the woman body on the newspaper.  

1960's Case Study 2 (Continued)

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This shows that the 60's was a decade for women rights, they already had jobs because of the war previously however they wanted equal pay for both genders. The 60's was a time of protests of peace. With the Vietnam war reporters took videos of the war and people didn't like how war was and protested against it. The language in the newspaper shows the newspaper is for the protests and against the war because the language is very positive. 

Exam Qustion

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How is media language used on the covers to make the reader either mistrust or trust the conservative party? In the first cover they use inappropriate language quoting David Cameron, this makes whoever sees this think they might mistrust the conservatives because of his language and it might make the reader feel he doesn't want to be prime minister because his quote makes you think he can't be bothered to do the jobs he needs. In the second cover it may make readers feel 2 ways, one they may think its false promises just to vote for her and on the other hand it may make people trust them because it's sort of manipulative and controlling language.