A LEVEL MEDIA BLOG

1. Explain the political significance of the concept of 'press freedom' and its relationship to representative democracy. Why do you think freedom of the press is important? How much influence do you think the government should have about the things reported in the UK press? We personally feel that the free press has both positives and negatives and therefor shouldn't be totally self regulated the invasion of privacy of those in the public eye is becoming more common. Which reporters taking stories to far and gaining private information this is happening due to the demand that the audience and readers give, responding well to stories that seem more exclusive. However, i feel that when a scoop isn't in the public interest then it should be required as required as reporters for newspapers are gaining both unwanted information and information which is to invasive. The concept of "press freedom`' has political significants as newspapers are able to support any...

The Big issue magazine covers Liam Gallagher The main image is of an iconic British artist mostly recognised from the famous British band called Oasis. The colour theme presented here is interesting. It cleverly encapsulates the artists features. For example the main, background colour is a light blue/turquoise shade which is a similar colour to the artists eyes. Also there are other features that match the colour scheme for example Liam's outfit featuring a bright pink raincoat jacket is a similar shade to the shade of his lips and tear ducks. The traditional colours seen in magazines, white and black are also featured in the mast head as well as the artist's name and speech text. This adds a simplistic elegance to the magazine because although the other colours featured are bright and fit with a summer season colour scheme, which indicates when the magazine was published. Also to fit the summery theme the artist appears to have a tanned completion whic...

Media Language - Codes and Conventions of Newspapers  The main noticeable differences between The Guardian and the Daily mail is their layouts. The guardian is presented as a broadsheet news paper, including the traditional codes and conventions. For example, the colonized copy (text) with a larger columns. From this we could infer that the articles in this paper have more detail on the front cover, which could also indicate that this is the same amount  in the whole paper. This could also refer to the audience demographic. it could suggest that the aimed audience are more educated, and therefore look for more depth in hard news stories. The highest percentage of readers of the guardian fall into the audience demographic category ABC1. This category includes people of high & intermediate managerial, administrative, professional occupations. This category is also described as including consumers   from   mixed economic groups ,  which consi...