Comparison of online articles

Representations on front pages

1. There is a stereotypical lower class youth that has been portrayed by the Sun in this image.
2. The paper is being very stereotypical in the way it has pictured the youth in the photo, with them dressed in a tracksuit, trainers wearing a balaclava and a man bag.
3. It has managed to create this representation due to a variety of media language. Firstly, the man has been pictured with the fire in the background which gives him a look of danger and destruction. Also, the lighting adds to his mysterious and danger due to the dark grey areas surrounding him and around the flames. Another point to add is that the man is in the foreground and is large which makes him seem threatening to the reader which creates a negative feeling towards the majority of youths and people that wear tracksuits. 
4. The Sun have reported the riots as 'mindless violence' which represents them as delinquents that go round destroying society. This will eventually rub off onto the whole of the reader's thoughts about all youths which is very negative as lots of teenagers are very positive members of the community. It also makes it sound as if they had no reasoning behind their brutal attacks when it was actually fueled by a police shooting. As well as this it is also reported that the 'riots spread across London', the use of the word 'spread' makes it sound as if the teenagers are a disease ruining the city. Finally, they have put the number of arrests in large text on the front page which to show the extent of the damage that has been caused.
5. This story does fit with the codes of convention of newspapers, firstly, it says it is the third day so the article has continuity to interest the readers and retain readership numbers. Furthermore, the story applies to the negativity code because it is all about crime and a negative reception of the youth community in London. 

Polarizing News Articles

Terrorism:

The two newspapers: The Mail and the Metro have taken very contrasting approaches to reporting the disaster of the London terror attacks earlier this year. The Mail has lead the story as 'TERROR STRIKES LONDON BRIDGE' which sums up the very negative sequence of events. However, the Metro focuses at the heroic responses of the police force who managed to take down the terrorist in eight minutes. The Mail has used images of the victims dead on the floor which makes the reader feel as if there is no hope and Britain has been defeated. Whereas, the Metro shows the police officer attending to the injured and affected which influences the audience to thinking there is hope and London is fighting back.

Brexit:

The Times vs Daily Mirror

Newspaper Front pages 23rd November

Analysis of Guardian on the 11th November

Bias in newspapers

1. Bias through pictures/graphics- camera angle/ caption. The photo has Theresa May in the foreground with supporters clapping in the background making her look empowered.
2. Word choice and tone in the body of the text. This article portrays the Labour Party as "rabble" with a 'poor election campaign'. 
3. Choice of journalist and sources- who is writing them? (beliefs) and who have they got the information from?  This article is from Dan Bloom who is a renowned labour supporter who is promoting labour, pro-Europe and anti David Cameron front pages.                                              
4. Bias through where the article is placed- is it prominent or is it hidden?  This article shows the aftermath over the Grenfell tower disaster which is prominent on the front cover due to the extremely powerful threshold of the article it could not be missed.
5. Bias through omission or selection- whether an article is even published. This article was from the day of the queen being found out of being involved in the tax evasion scandal, which they have chose not to report in support of the royal family.
6. Bias through choice of headline.  As you can see by the headline the sun are clearly against the labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and have not minced their words against hi.
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8. Bias by use of names and titles- ('terrorist' or 'freedom fighter'), as you can see the daily star have portrayed the man clearly as a terrorist due to the awful actions he has gone to, however this could be seen as just because he is of Islamic faith.
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10. Bias through statistics and crowd counts,  this stat has been used in order to make people panic about the number of immigrants entering the UK and go against Cameron and his pledge.