Media Blog 1- Mr Bush

  Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? Staff at it's peak - 130 journalists Perch believes that if the paper is still in print in 10yrs time it will be very expensive, print weekly, have a very small circulation, and would make very little money, and so would employ as few as five or six staff 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? A small section of the press  was behaving in a totally unacceptable  way, but it should have been dealt with legally. I don’t think regulation is the  answer. 3) What does IPSO stand for and how does it work? Independent Press Standards Organisation -...

  Read  Media Factsheet 76: News Values  and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our  Media Factsheet archive is available here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? British service woman dies after Afghan bomb blast - this is an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage because of its geographical proximity (away from the UK), cultural proximity (as readers view the soldier as 'one of their own').  On an intensity scale, the first female officer to be killed is considered more newsworthy as it is unusual. At the time the story was published - 2011 - the war in Afghanistan was a continuity story but often the interest in the story lies in that fact that deaths, even though inevitable, are not predictable. 2) What is gatekeeping...

  Copy the  headline, date  and  link The Guardian: Headline -  BBC backlash grows after Bafta racial slur - The Latest Date -  Wed 25 Feb 2026 17.22 GMT Link -  https://www.theguardian.com/news/video/2026/feb/25/bbc-backlash-grows-after-bafta-racial-slur-the-latest Mail Online: Headline -  John Davidson: BBC should have `worked harder´ on stopping Bafta racial slur Date -  Published:   12:58, 25 February 2026  |  Updated:   13:09, 25 February 2026 Link -  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-15591455/John-Davidson-BBC-worked-harder-stopping-Bafta-racial-slur.html Briefly summarise  the story in a sentence or two: is  this is an example of  hard news  or  soft news?  Does it reflect the  politics  or  ideological stance  of that newspaper/website? The story is an example of hard news with it including serious topics such as the difficulties of disabilities and ...

  Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption Read  this Ofcom report on the consumption of news in the UK  and answer the following questions (bullet points/short answers are fine): 1) Look at the headlines from the report on page 5 & 6. Pick three that you think are interesting and bullet point them here. Why did you pick those three in particular?   • The BBC is still the most-used provider of news in the UK.  • Despite online being the main platform for news, the more traditional providers are rated more highly for trust, accuracy and impartiality. I picked these two in particular as I am interested in the part traditional news sources play in todays technological sphere, in a world where people can get their own news is traditional media still needed and or respected?  2)  Now look at the motivations for following news which differs by age on pages 7 & 8. What are the main reasons people gave for following news? What are the percentage...

  1) Type up your   feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). 64/84  - A WWW - Good knowledge of CSPs  EBI - more sophisticated examples 2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your  target grade  for A-Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2? I exceeded my target grade which was a C These are the grade boundaries we've used (out of 84):  A* = 71; A = 62, B = 52; C = 43; D = 33; E = 24 Now read through the real AQA mark scheme for Paper 2 and the examiner's report (see your Media teacher's Google Classroom for both of these documents). 3) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from your the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme. Q1) 7/9 Included: Propps character types and...

1) Type up any  feedback in full  (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). 70/84 - A* WWW -  Q3 on intertextuality and Q7 on risky business was spot on  EBI -  Focus more on key words in the question of the unseen and revise specific media terminology eg. end of audience theories  2) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify and points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme: Q1) 5/8 Things to add:  - word make logo, title, caption, tagline, develop audience interpretation further, positioning/placement of anchorage text, juxtaposition of 'National' and 'Trust' offers a two-way relationship between the  reader and the view which links a kind of faith (in England’s green and  pleasant land) with a kind of responsibility; a stewardship that NT (thankfully)  admi...