The Times- Language and Representation
Language 1) What is the main story on the front cover of the Times CSP edition and why does it appeal to Times readers? The main story of this newspaper is the post office scandal. This appeals to the audience since its a form of hard news which is a characteristic of a broadsheet newspaper such as the times. 2) How is the presentation of this story different to how the Daily Mirror presents it? The times focuses more on the important stories such as the post office scandal, adding lots of more information/text related to that specific topic. Whereas the daily mirror likes to focus on more, less important topics rather than one huge topic, using more images than text to appeal to its working class audience. This gives the daily mirror more similarities to a magazine rather than a newspaper. 3) How is the Times front page designed to reflect broadsheet newspaper conventions? The times use lots more text rather than images to inform their upper class audience of a...