The Times- Language and representation

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 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 is the post office scandal and it attracts the readers because it was a world wide scandal that everyone dealt with .  

2) How is the presentation of this story different to how the Daily Mirror presents it? 

-Daily mirror was more soft news and more gossip wise than times where they were more serious. 

3) How is the Times front page designed to reflect broadsheet newspaper conventions?

-It has less pictures and more writing for highly educated readers. 

-The cost of it is double than mirror 

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

- There is higher register vocab for to be more intermediate

-More words than pictures 

- Criticising other political parties.   

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

- They criticise other political parties than theirs because they dont think the party they follow is better than others.  

Representations


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

- The post office workers were shown as the victims in this scandal but blaming the Fujitsu workers for everything.  

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

- They sifted the blame from the conservatives on to the IT workers 

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

She rescind her role and giving her voice to speak about her side. 

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? 

-Fujitsu is with the government so they rarely blame Fujitsu because they are conservative so they want to protect them and blame it on the IT workers than Fujitsu  

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

They would feel bad for the post office workers as they are the victims in the scandal but also not blame Fujitsu and venneles as they both as conservative and most Times readers are right wing so they would rather protect them then blame. 

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