Well here we go my second blog sorry for the delay but I don't come up with ideas on tap! This blog will follow the prompts this time and I will be talking about the image of global climate change and issues of the environment through different medias as I find the different slants on stories very interesting. There are many different newspapers in circulation in Britain today and they all have different slants on what is going on in the world and they often disagree on issues that are nearly exactly the same. This is due to the political ideas or parties that they follow and this is called media discourse (thanks Faith) which means that they may report the same article but in very different ways from each other. These traits can be seen across all papers in the United Kingdom and they each attract different groups of people who these papers are designed to approach and appeal to. This however is a major problem because they often different wildly on issues such as climate change where some there needs to be some co-operation as these issues could be sorted out a lot quicker if there was some sort of co-operation on the issues of climate change. This is a major issue and could be dealt with more effectively if there was some sense of co-operation between the different newspapers. In the UK there are many different papers but the leading one is the Sun (one of the most widely read papers in the English language) and no matter what people say about it this is an important paper as it shows the right-wing working class and as this is a very large and vocal group the Sun is an interesting paper to read if you what to get under the skin of a lot of people in this country. The Suns articles are often scare-mongering to appeal to a larger audience and this ok if you want to speak to the general public but if we are to analyse it there is greater difficulties as you have to look very deep down to find any grains or nuggets of hard fact but this can be a very fun process! There others major right wing paper is the Daily Mail but they are much more subdued and there articles are much more straight forward and there articles are often much less scare mongering. To swing in the totally opposite direction there are papers such as the Guardian which is a very left-wing paper and it is nearly as scaremongering as the Sun and in some aspects is even more so as they are more technically in their language due to who their readers are. There is also the Independent which is left leaning but is more gossipy than the Guardian and its appeal is to a slightly different audience. The last major British paper is the Times which is a very old and established paper which is supposed to be right-wing but has become much more central lover the last decade but it uses very complex language as it readers are the very affluent and they are the type that want straight forward news.
Here are a few examples of climate change from different newspapers
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/special_events/green_week/article1547947.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1080945/Climate-change-causes-rare-swans-stay-warm-Siberia-instead-returning-UK.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/05/climatechange-carboncapturestorage
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-at-the-poles-is-manmade-980256.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4957408.ece
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Some interesting links to articles about climate change.
In what ways do these articles differ in their reporting of climate change issues?
I know the feeling..ideas don't just come along at exactly the time you want them to. Unfortunately because this is an assessed piece of work you really do need to meet deadlines.
Having said that there are some very sound and sensible observations here.
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