The Times - Language and Representations

Language


1) What is the main story on the front cover of the Times CSP edition and why does it appeal to Times readers?
 Post office using tax payers for to gain money.

2) How is the presentation of this story different to how the Daily Mirror presents it? 
The Times use serif font and focuses on politics but the Daily Mirror uses emotive language focuses on how scandal like this effects society.

3) How is the Times front page designed to reflect broadsheet newspaper conventions?
Typography is clean and traditional, smaller images and more texts.

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

Long vertical pages and focuses on international news.

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

The Times wants to attract older audience who are interested in politics.

Representations

1) How does the Times represent the Post Office workers and Fujitsu in the CSP pages?
The Times represented the Post Office as corrupt who used tax payers for their own and ruined their reputation.

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

Soft who ignores negative things about Conservative Party.

3) Consider the subheading about Vennells "Vennells faces call..." - How does this newspaper present her involvement in this story?
The BBC presents Paula Vennells' involvement in the Post Office scandal as a mix of evasive accountability, priority placed on reputation over people, and active concealment.

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 as a central, culpable entity in the Post Office Horizon scandal, accusing it of supplying flawed software, enabling wrongful prosecutions, and concealing remote access capabilities.

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

negative because they are using working class to gain profit.

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