Here is a list of the top six newspapers in the United Kingdom in January 2009 (Audit Bureau of Circulations 2009):
1. The Sun 3, 146,000
2. The Daily mail 2,200,398
3. The Daily Mirror 1,366,891
4. The Daily Telegraph 783,210
5. The Daily Star 768,534
6. The Daily Mirror 736,340
(http://learningforsustainabledevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/11/blogprompt-number-four.html) (ENV 1017)
After looking at the information shown above about the top six best selling newspapers, with the only broadsheet being the forth best-selling newspaper, it concludes that a lot of people are more favourable to choose a tabloid newspaper over a broadsheet. the broadsheet newspapers contains a larger variety of more important serious issues, although it can often manipulate the information to make it more appealing to the reader. In comparision the tabloid newspapers, 'The Sun' in particular tends to include more articles and stories about celebrities, showbiz, gossip and few news articles.
According to: http://www.uksuperweb.co.uk/newspapers.html ...
"The Daily Telegraph - online newspaper features the latest news stories from the UK and around the world. Featured areas include UK arts news, motoring news and car test drives, job news online, money experts with advice on personal finance and the latest stock market news, daily sports news from the UK and abroad including horse racing as well as sections for British experts." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
"The Sun - newspaper Online is Britain's best-selling daily tabloid for news, sport and showbiz exclusives. Fantastic on sport always our fave for the footy and horse racing. The UK's biggest selling daily newspaper." http://www.thesun.co.uk/
In my opinion I think that the media, including the newspapers should cover stories related to serious issues because they have the ability to inform a large number of members of the public about serious issues. If they do not it may mean that the issue is not reported or covered for some time. However if the media choose to cover serious issues the public may then have sufficient time to take action if necessary. For example, if there was a political disagreement or something happened which could have a big impact on lots of people's everyday lives, the media has almost a responsiblity to inform the public about these issues.
Controversially the newspapers could technically withhold certain information about big events or focus on other pieces of information to give an impression to the reader of the situation. The media could also put a bias 'slant' or 'spin' the story to make it more appealing towards the reader in order to encourage more members of the public to purchase their newspapers.
After looking at the information shown above about the top six best selling newspapers, with the only broadsheet being the forth best-selling newspaper, it concludes that a lot of people are more favourable to choose a tabloid newspaper over a broadsheet. the broadsheet newspapers contains a larger variety of more important serious issues, although it can often manipulate the information to make it more appealing to the reader. In comparision the tabloid newspapers, 'The Sun' in particular tends to include more articles and stories about celebrities, showbiz, gossip and few news articles.
According to: http://www.uksuperweb.co.uk/newspapers.html ...
"The Daily Telegraph - online newspaper features the latest news stories from the UK and around the world. Featured areas include UK arts news, motoring news and car test drives, job news online, money experts with advice on personal finance and the latest stock market news, daily sports news from the UK and abroad including horse racing as well as sections for British experts." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
"The Sun - newspaper Online is Britain's best-selling daily tabloid for news, sport and showbiz exclusives. Fantastic on sport always our fave for the footy and horse racing. The UK's biggest selling daily newspaper." http://www.thesun.co.uk/
In my opinion I think that the media, including the newspapers should cover stories related to serious issues because they have the ability to inform a large number of members of the public about serious issues. If they do not it may mean that the issue is not reported or covered for some time. However if the media choose to cover serious issues the public may then have sufficient time to take action if necessary. For example, if there was a political disagreement or something happened which could have a big impact on lots of people's everyday lives, the media has almost a responsiblity to inform the public about these issues.
Controversially the newspapers could technically withhold certain information about big events or focus on other pieces of information to give an impression to the reader of the situation. The media could also put a bias 'slant' or 'spin' the story to make it more appealing towards the reader in order to encourage more members of the public to purchase their newspapers.
In my opinion I think that the tabloid media and 'low budget entertainment' do have too much power and influence in this country. I think this because of the top six best-selling newspapers in the U.K the only broadsheet was the forth best-selling and this means that the top three best-selling newspapers are tabloids which means the tabloid media have a big impact upon what people read each day. It works out that just over 100,000 copies of 'The Sun' newspaper are sold everyday, this means that only a very small percentage of the population (<1%)>
Here is a list of the top ten most watched television programmes and times these were shown over the weekend of the 8th of November 2009 (Channel ITV 1)
1. The X-factor Results (Sundays 19:59)
2. The X-factor (Saturday 20:00)
3.Coronation Street (Monday 19:32)
4. Coronation Street (Monday 20:29)
5. Doc Martin (Sunday 21:02)
6. Coronation Street (Friday 20:29)
7. Coronation Street (Friday 19:32)
8. Coronation Street (Thursday 20:31)
9. Emmerdale (Monday 19:00)
10. Emmerdale (Thrusday 20.00)
This shows that all of these programmes are on during 'Prime time' i.e. the time when the most people are watching television during the day. It means that these programmes are able to show and do show stories which reflect recent events. However they can also give impressions to people and get people thinking about different scenarios which have the potential to happen in their everyday lives. This can have both a positive and negative impact upon the viewer. The positive impact would be that the scenario is one of joy and happiness and could make the viewer experience these emotions as they watch the programme. The negative impact would be a scenario in which something bad happens and could cause the viewer to experience sadness, anxiety, or bring back feelings of trauma if a similar thing has happened to them in the past as they relate to what they are seeing.
Television has seen a big rise in reality television as it has been more and more accepted by the public. Now it features as the most watched television show in the form of 'X-factor Results' on Sundays and 'X-factor' on Saturdays. This could be seen as a bad thing because as it is reality television, it is happening and the viewer may become really involved and engaged with the programme. Not only could this become a distraction to their everyday routine but it could also cause them to experience distress and perhaps even anger if they have voted for one of the cast members and that person is cast-off the show.
Overall the rise of reality television and the soaps taking the 'Prime-time' slot on the television has enabled the programmes to have a large influence on the viewer. This is because they can enforce their own opinions upon the viewer through the means of the programme.
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