Journalism is changing and newspapers are dying off

John Oliver view on journalism and end of newspapers

this is a video that shows how journalists have to adapt to the new media changes and says about how the printed media is dying

Tabloid and broadsheet newspapers front covers

front covers of tabloid (The Sun) and broadsheet (Telegraph) newspapers

the suns front pages have cheesy titles and a very small amount of writing and a lot of pictures to interest you straight away, the sun also shows reveling pictures of women in their front covers more often than the telegraph.

where as the telegraph has a lot more writing and information on their story's on their front pages making it look more sophisticated 

overall the tabloid newspapers exaggerate story's to make them look more exciting than they really are to grab the readers attention and make them buy the newspaper where as broadsheet news paper front covers have a lot more information and writing, where as the tabloid is almost filled with pictures and a very small amount of writing.

Stuart Hall Reception theory

Stuart Hall - The reception theory

The reception theory is a theory that emphasizes on the audiences response and how they interprets a piece of text or film. its based on how the audience are feeling on that day or hour their watching a film or reading a text, their background, age and past experiences can all determine how the interpret a text and in what way. for example if your watching something telling you how good dying your hair but you had a past experience of dying your hair and hated it you might reject the enforced meaning completely (oppositional). however everyone decodes films differently on past experiences or you're mood and feelings on that day.

there are 3 types of audiences decoding text:

Dominant: how the producer wants the audience to view

Negotiated: mix of dominant and oppositional

Oppositional: audience rejects the enforced meaning

Representation - newspaper

today we looked at how woman where portrayed in The Sun news paper compared to men in photos. we did this by a watching a video that showed us how differently women are portrayed in The Sun news paper compared to men. this experiment collects The Sun newspaper for 6 months and cut out all the images of men and women and stick them on a wall, men on 1 side and women on the other, to see the difference between each side of the wall.

Here is the  video which shows how differently The Sun portrays women in their newspaper compared to the men.

This video shows that women are usually presented modeling or posing to look good where as men look like they are doing an action that you would do in every day life making their photos look more realistic where as the women look unrealistic. The sun is also known for being a sports based newspaper. however in 6 months they didn't include a single picture of a female doing sport. So the sun are objectifying women in their pictures. Which I believe is a big case of media sexism.