Dishant Media 1 Blog (exam)

Plastics surround us. We eat out of plastic, store food in it, buy food wrapped in it, put it in our eyes in the form of contact lenses, drink out of it — it’s inescapable and, admittedly, incredibly useful. But a growing body of evidence shows that plastics are likely harming human health in a number of ways, and in the United States, there’s little government oversight to stop it. this effectively means that no one is going to do anything about an item which we use regularly on an everyday basis, because of the fact that it is so useful to us in our everyday lives and simply because people don't care enough but the fact is that we are putting these plastics all around us and and inside our bodies without realising the potential dangers of what could happen to us. This item is damaging our wildlife,  fish and ourselves yet we use it as it is cheap. There are four restaurants which are very generously providing free meals on Christmas day as a way of giving back to the com

Brexit deal vote delayed: Theresa May set to postpone Tuesday’s ‘meaningful vote’ on draft Withdrawal Agreement. There has been long and hard discussion about the future of the country and Tuesday the 11th was the date set to have the final decision made, however it appears that the prime minister was mistaken and may make a U turn on the so called meeting which was vital in her opinion, is no longer as import as she mentioned as ministers have now advised her that in this vote she will still be heavily defeated and that this vote would be embarrassing. We are now in a situation where there we are back peddling and this is making the country look weaker, although i believe we should remain i don't think that we should change our decision after we made it or else it would be pointless. There are now many conditions we would have to agree to, to now become part of the EU once again and would likely have to change to the euro and extend our tariffs and not be able to trade with ever

Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? He suggests that racial identities are HISTORICALLY constructed and are formed by things such as slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism and states that racial identities are the product of racial oppression and caused by historical conflicts. He also states  "Race is not the eternal cause of racism but it complex, unstable product. I should probably emphasise at this point that neither race nor racism are exclusive historical property of the minorities who are their primary victims" 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Gilroy is saying th at racism isn’t caused by race, racism

1) Newspapers: The decline in print media 2) Newspapers: The death of print media Factsheet 3) Newspapers: The future of journalism 4) Newspapers: News Values 5) Newspapers: Regulation MM article 6)   Newspapers: Regulation essay 7) Newspapers: Daily Mail case study 8) Newspapers: Mail Online case study 9) Newspapers: The i newspaper and website case study

1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? Clay shirky talks about accountability journalism and states the impact of its importance as it puts the power in the hands of the less powerful and puts us in a position to publish what we push and moves the power away from large institutions only and prevents things such as corruption. 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? Shirky states that the relationship between newspapers and advertisers has never been conventional and friendly as advertisers used to have to fight for such a small piece of advertising in newspapers and would have to pay such a large amount of money to have this small space and were arguably exploited, however the tables have now turned with there being excess advertisi

Factsheet 175 - Case Study: The Daily Mail (Part 1) 1) What is the history of the Daily Mail? The  Daily Mail  is a British  daily  middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's second-biggest-selling  daily  newspaper after The Sun. 2) What news content highlights in the Daily Mail?  The Daily Mail was constantly expected to interest a female gathering of people and offered includes explicitly went for ladies; it remains a paper whose readership is transcendently female.  3) What is the Daily Mail's method of location?  The method of location is a technique for making a connection between the addresser (maker) and the recipient (gathering of people) and the statistic is grown-ups matured 65+, aggregate ABC1(C2).  4) What strategies of influence does the Daily Mail use to draw in and hold perusers?  A strategy utilized by the Daily Mail is the utilization of systems of influence to set up an agreement in accor

Read this  Guardian feature from 2017 on Teen Vogue  and answer the following questions. 1) What was the article that announced Teen Vogue as a more serious, political website – with 1.3m hits and counting? 25-year-old  Lauren Duca , a Teen Vogue contributing editor who published thew article about  Donald trump "gas lighting" America. 2) When was the original Teen Vogue magazine launched and what was its original content? The original teen vogue was launched in 2004 and hosted a smaller range of topics which it does today and only had topics based on fashion and celebrity gossip  as a little sister to US Vogue. 3) How did editor Elaine Welteroth change Teen Vogue’s approach in 2015? That issue featured three unknown black models on the cover, seemingly breaking all the rules (that you should have a famous person; and that having no Caucasian faces on the cover is a commercial risk).  4) How many stories are published on Teen Vogue a day? What top