JANUARY 5th 2021

DAILY MAIL OWNERSHIP QUESTIONS

Q1: Who owns The Daily Mail?

Q2: What is political bias of the Daily Mail? 

Q3: What do Curran and Seaton suggest about the relationship between the political bias of the ownership of a newspaper and the political bias of its content?

Q4: What evidence do you have to suggest that this is not true of the Daily Mail?

JANUARY 5th COVERS

On January 5th 2021, Boris Johnson announced a third UK Lockdown as Coronavirus figures grew again during the winter of 2020/21. Look at the covers below and answer the questions.

Q1: Which codes and conventions of broadsheet (quality tabloid/compact) newspapers can be found in these covers?

Q2: Which codes and conventions of tabloid newspapers can be found in these covers?

Q3: Which theorist do you feel can be most easily applied to these covers?

Q4: What is the political bias of each newspaper?

Q5: Find one piece of evidence from each paper that demonstrates their political bias.