ideological perspectives of newspapers and representation

The process of selecting which stories to include, involves weighing up their  newsworthiness.

 Intertextuality = Where a media product makes sense only through it's reference to other media product - Barthes also referred to this process as referential codes. 

 - inter = things in between

- The daily mirror has a strong and clear hatred for Donald Trump. 
-Has references to a disaster film implying Donald Trump is a disaster 
- Lexis of "what have they done?" sounds as if the rest of the world is sighing. 
- Pose of statue of liberty has connotations of people shaking their head and being ashamed or disappointed 
- It assumed that people have knowledge that the statue of liberty is in the USA. 
- It assumes we know who "President Trump" is as they haven't fully referred to him as Donald Trump - referring to him with his second name 
- Element of blame within the text of "what have they done?" 
- Liberty = freedom and the statue of liberty's face is covered showing that their freedom has been taken away. 
"and what it means for you and the world" is using direct address so that people feel more affected by it. 
- Ideological perspectives encode that Donald Trump is a bad person and the front page is a proairetic and hermeneutic.
- This is a reference to a film called the Planet Of The Apes. 
- Also making intertextual references of war documentaries - shows that Trump is going to bring war
- The mise-en-scene of the dark clouds is a proairetic code suggesting Trump will bring the country to war. 
- Also makes reference to Action Films - Donald Trump likes actions films  
- Also makes reference to the weeping Angels in Doctor Who - it's a British Show and the Daily Mirror's assumption is that every British person watches Doctor Who.
- Statue Of Liberty references America and hope. 
- It assumes we know what is going 
- "It's President Trump" is in red which is a proairetic code of danger. 
- Hands over Statue Of Liberty's face shows that she is upset. 
- We can assume the Daily Mirror's political ideology - trump is very right wing so they are likely to be left winged. 


Biased - being unfairly for or against somebody/something 

Left wing is generally a more liberal and forward-moving ideology whereas right wing is more conservative and generally traditional. In the UK, Labour are leaning left from centre and the Conservatives are leaning right from centre


Left wing = 
make people more equal 
belief in the government 
the power of the government 
collectivism - work as a society 
- far left = north Korea 

Right wing = 
hierarchy 
free market 
rights of individual 
individualism 
- far right = fasism (Nazi's)







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