2. The owner has the power to influence the content, political and otherwise.
What does this indicate about press freedom?
3. Do we really have a 'free press'?
4. Is it right to call them 'news' papers, what proportion of the paper is actually concerned with news?
5. Who are the gatekeepers who decide what is newsworthy for their publication.
The editorial decisions about what to include are made not only by what is deemed 'newsworthy' but what they or their owners want to divulge or exclude their readership from.
There are also ways of representing those facts to the audience, for instance and it is this that you will be concerned with in your exam.
6. Should newspapers be politically impartial? Swings in support can have a major impact on elections. In 1997, after years supporting the Conservatives, The Sun, backed Labour who went on to win the general election.
3. Do we really have a 'free press'?
4. Is it right to call them 'news' papers, what proportion of the paper is actually concerned with news?
5. Who are the gatekeepers who decide what is newsworthy for their publication.
The editorial decisions about what to include are made not only by what is deemed 'newsworthy' but what they or their owners want to divulge or exclude their readership from.
There are also ways of representing those facts to the audience, for instance and it is this that you will be concerned with in your exam.
6. Should newspapers be politically impartial? Swings in support can have a major impact on elections. In 1997, after years supporting the Conservatives, The Sun, backed Labour who went on to win the general election.
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