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 anything in as much detail as possible, adding lots of towering columns of information related to one specific topic. The times also covers more serious, hard news rather than any entertaining, soft news. 

4) How can you tell the inside pages of the Times are a broadsheet newspaper? 

The inside pages of the times are more organised with intermediate information, barely using any images to cover the important stories of the day. The times' use of intermediate language is mainly done to appeal to the more educated, upper class members of society.

5) What does a close analysis of the news stories in the Times CSP edition suggest about the Times's political beliefs?

The times are clearly shown to support the conservative party. This is shown using the times' choice to be a broadsheet newspaper which focuses more on important, serious forms of news rather than entertaining, unimportant stories. This form of news are more likely to appeal to the more educated, upper class people which mostly support the conservative party rather the labour party.

Representations

1) How does the Times represent the Post Office workers and Fujitsu in the CSP pages?

The Times is directing the blame to them instead of the former CEO of the post office since she is a conservative MP and the workers are working class so they are seen as people that are used for blame. This is because the Times supports the educated and upper class people aka the conservatives 

2) What representation of the Conservative Party can be found in the CSP pages of the Times?

The Times is a broadsheet that has large pieces of small writing and barely any images. This suggests that the Times is for prestigious, educated and upper-class people which are the conservatives. The main image of the CEO is also a conservative MP, this suggests that the Times support the conservatives since they not directing the blame at the CEO but the workers of the post office who are working-class people.  

3) Consider the subheading about Vennells "Vennells faces call..." - How does this newspaper present her involvement in this story? 

The Times is trying to show that the CEO is part of the solution that will help with the scandal but not the blame since the Times is directing the blame to the IT workers who are not seen as upper-class and prestigious compared to the CEO. The Times is trying to put the conservatives in good light and that the conservatives MPs will help them with the scandal but this also preventing the blame to the CEO as she is also a conservative MP. The newspaper has a crest to show how prestigious it is and how prestigious the conservatives are. The lack of information about the fujistu shows that they do not want to attract attention to the upper-class and instead direct all the blame to the working class hence the two images of the IT workers.

4) What representation of Fujitsu can be found in the CSP pages of the Times? What does The Times journalist think of Fujitsu and Horizon's role in this scandal?

In the csp, no visible information of fujitsu or horizon are mentioned in the newspaper. This informs us that the times chose not to mention the companies since they support the conservative party, meaning some members had some sort of influence on the scandal. The newspaper does this to appeal to their upper class audience so they won't lose readers in the future.

5) What opinion would Times readers be likely to have about Vennells, the Post Office workers and Fujitsu from reading these pages?

In my opinion, the times readers are more likely to support the ceo of the company rather than the workers. This idea is clearly shown using the times' language towards specific types of people involved in the story. For example the times talk nicely about the ceo and the conservative party trying to influence their audience into thinking that they di nothing wrong and the blame should be shifted onto the working class members of society that are meant to be the victims of the story.