Explain how the political context in which newspapers are produced, influences their ownership and regulation
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Press freedom is significant as it presents media institutions with the ability to produce stories in any political alignment that they desire and also publish any stories they feel are in the public interest. This is important as it means the public can receive news stories that they need to hear about even if they damage other people's reputations. It allows all news to be given to the public so that we have all the information we might need about politics and economics as well as celebrity stories in the tabloid newspapers. Without press freedom we would live in a country with state censorship where the government controlled the news we received. This means that they could only publish stories in their favour and what they wanted the public to see. The government should have no control over what is reported in UK press as we need and have a right to know what is going on. Press freedom is related to representative democracy as we can see different political ideas that are not always in favour of the controlling government.
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The Government has a say of what media can be produced and media outlets have to follow a set of rules to pass through this regulation. This is necessary because some media outlets might publish content that could offend a group/individual or could scare the nation into a particular belief or ideology. A theory to support this idea is the 'Livingstone and Lunt Theory'. This is requiring regulations to protect against detriment; citizens have needs, are social, seek public or social benefits from the media.This in turn promotes public interest.
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An example of editorialise content that wouldn't fir impartial television news would be the paridise papers story due to the contrasting headlines which clearly show political affiliations. The Daily Mail shows theirright wing ideology proposing that the Queen had been 'dragged' into the off-shore tax audience, claiming her innocence. Whereas the Guardian uses negative language such as 'controversial'and ' exploiting' connoting that the Queen was fully aware, this therefore shows their left wing ideology.
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Ownership models like the Daily mail’s proprietor model offer a prime example of how media can be controlled to influence public political views. Press barons like Rupert Murdoch, who controls most UK tabloids, can be seen to share his political opinions in each of his newspapers; this allows for an unfair opinion to be shared with the UK. 5/
The press can develop power through ownership of newspapers which consequently can shape political stances due to their ideologies and therefore political debate through the widespread circulation which has the power to influence politicians in their debates. The owners of newspapers can influence the editorial stance of a newspaper. Newspapers will also attempt to influence how the public vote in elections. It is important that newspapers stick to a code of conduct or rules set out by independent organisations in order to avoid this. If one large business or one singular man owns a company their ideologies can filter down into the papers. This relates to Hesmondhalgh's theory on cultural industries as DMGT (owner of the Daily Mail) also owns multiple other companies. This therefore shows the integration and conglomeration of cultural industries which follows the normal capitalist patterns seen in Hesmondhalgh's theory.The newspapers can create a pressure towards political groups through this as their stories can be critical of certain elements (for example The Sun criticises Brexit however The Daily Mail avoids the stories on it due to their ideologies). This therefore puts pressure on the Government to change as the papers are so widely broadcasted the negativity has to be controlled to ensure political stability, hence why typically the Government and the press have a symbiotic relationship.
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To begin with, the daily mail is a clear right wing(capitalist) newspaper, which evidently portrays these views through its conservative stories and layout.The daily mail always tends to have a focus on money and prices in modern life- even when not especially relevant to the story. The mail does this because of its political affiliation, due to the wealthy being interested in the price of things. Another point, is that the mail favours right wing people and the wealthy, which is clearly shown in their bias to some stories. An example of this, was the paradise papers coverage, which involved the queen being under fire for not paying taxes and also for the elites dodging tax. In this, the mail back up the queen and made it as if those lesser off were wrong and the queen was simply a victim. In contrast to the mail, we see the guardian adopts the left wing (socialist) ideologies because of its support for labour . The guardian is very much a hard newspaper and so what it conveys tends to be less biased and more factual. Despite this though, there is a slight lean in what it has written towards the socialist side of things and so the rich tend to look worse. Interestingly, the guardian also says a lot about tax at the minute, though what it says is how rich rich should really help the poor and so they should be taxed a greater amount.
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Press freedom is significant as it presents media institutions with the ability to produce stories in any political alignment that they desire and also publish any stories they feel are in the public interest. This is important as it means the public can receive news stories that they need to hear about even if they damage other people's reputations. It allows all news to be given to the public so that we have all the information we might need about politics and economics as well as celebrity stories in the tabloid newspapers. Without press freedom we would live in a country with state censorship where the government controlled the news we received. This means that they could only publish stories in their favour and what they wanted the public to see. The government should have no control over what is reported in UK press as we need and have a right to know what is going on. Press freedom is related to representative democracy as we can see different political ideas that are not always in favour of the controlling government.
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The Government has a say of what media can be produced and media outlets have to follow a set of rules to pass through this regulation. This is necessary because some media outlets might publish content that could offend a group/individual or could scare the nation into a particular belief or ideology. A theory to support this idea is the 'Livingstone and Lunt Theory'. This is requiring regulations to protect against detriment; citizens have needs, are social, seek public or social benefits from the media.This in turn promotes public interest.
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An example of editorialise content that wouldn't fir impartial television news would be the paridise papers story due to the contrasting headlines which clearly show political affiliations. The Daily Mail shows theirright wing ideology proposing that the Queen had been 'dragged' into the off-shore tax audience, claiming her innocence. Whereas the Guardian uses negative language such as 'controversial'and ' exploiting' connoting that the Queen was fully aware, this therefore shows their left wing ideology.
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Ownership models like the Daily mail’s proprietor model offer a prime example of how media can be controlled to influence public political views. Press barons like Rupert Murdoch, who controls most UK tabloids, can be seen to share his political opinions in each of his newspapers; this allows for an unfair opinion to be shared with the UK. 5/
The press can develop power through ownership of newspapers which consequently can shape political stances due to their ideologies and therefore political debate through the widespread circulation which has the power to influence politicians in their debates. The owners of newspapers can influence the editorial stance of a newspaper. Newspapers will also attempt to influence how the public vote in elections. It is important that newspapers stick to a code of conduct or rules set out by independent organisations in order to avoid this. If one large business or one singular man owns a company their ideologies can filter down into the papers. This relates to Hesmondhalgh's theory on cultural industries as DMGT (owner of the Daily Mail) also owns multiple other companies. This therefore shows the integration and conglomeration of cultural industries which follows the normal capitalist patterns seen in Hesmondhalgh's theory.The newspapers can create a pressure towards political groups through this as their stories can be critical of certain elements (for example The Sun criticises Brexit however The Daily Mail avoids the stories on it due to their ideologies). This therefore puts pressure on the Government to change as the papers are so widely broadcasted the negativity has to be controlled to ensure political stability, hence why typically the Government and the press have a symbiotic relationship.
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To begin with, the daily mail is a clear right wing(capitalist) newspaper, which evidently portrays these views through its conservative stories and layout.The daily mail always tends to have a focus on money and prices in modern life- even when not especially relevant to the story. The mail does this because of its political affiliation, due to the wealthy being interested in the price of things. Another point, is that the mail favours right wing people and the wealthy, which is clearly shown in their bias to some stories. An example of this, was the paradise papers coverage, which involved the queen being under fire for not paying taxes and also for the elites dodging tax. In this, the mail back up the queen and made it as if those lesser off were wrong and the queen was simply a victim. In contrast to the mail, we see the guardian adopts the left wing (socialist) ideologies because of its support for labour . The guardian is very much a hard newspaper and so what it conveys tends to be less biased and more factual. Despite this though, there is a slight lean in what it has written towards the socialist side of things and so the rich tend to look worse. Interestingly, the guardian also says a lot about tax at the minute, though what it says is how rich rich should really help the poor and so they should be taxed a greater amount.
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