The Daily Mirror: Newspapers - Made For Audiences Flashcards

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Front Pages

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  • Image focused. Lots of pictures to interest the potential reader.
  • Massive headlines (which can fill up most of page) and only a small section of the larger story (will use jump line to tell reader where to find the rest).
  • Emphasis on colourful puff to
    elaborate offers / promotions within.
  • Stories tend to be celebrity, TV or pseudo political in nature.
  • Stories about children / families tend to also receive strongest reception. Sub Headlines used to elaborate on sometimes enigma laden headlines to fill-in-the-blanks.
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Back Pages

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  • One major sporting headline with a smaller secondary story down the
    side or top / bottom of page.
  • Emphasis on large picture and massive headline to stress emphasis.
  • Focus on football -a working class sport which is the most popular in the UK.
  • Emphasis on national sports and teams over domestic (England more important than Arsenal, for example).
  • Small amount of copy with jump line to relevant page inside again.
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Double Page Spreads

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  • Massive picture and headline but now all story across two pages - no jump line.
  • Tends to focus on human interest story and / or issue of interest to left wing viewpoint (e.g.: unions, state of employment, cutbacks, etc.) but the emphasis is on the individual through interviews, quotes, etc.
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Editorials

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  • Often termed as the ‘Voice of the Mirror - Short, located down a side bar and focused on multiple topical events via smaller headlines / sub headlines.
  • Offers comments in keeping with the Mirrors left wing ideologies.
  • Favours strong values over the individual.
  • Often supportive of Labour leader Keir Starmer, and other left-wing representatives.
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Letters Pages

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  • Celebrity and Television orientated.
  • Comments of no ‘real substance’ reflecting ephemeral nature of popular culture, only mirroring attitude and opinion which largely supports the Mirror’s underlying ideologies.
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