Study the online newspaper extract to revise exam Q. 9 (below).
To make this prep quick and easy, all you have to do is copy / paste the text below and identify all relevant articles or features that represent the newspaper's values:
1. The major use of newspapers is to offer a sense of knowing
what is going on in the world.The Observer knows that its readers are serious and interested in international affairs. This is evident in hard news articles about.....
2. The Observer meets its audience's need for a range of cultural, sporting and artistic news. It provides these with...
3. The Observer does not shy away from 'difficult' issues that could make uncomfortable reading, such as...
4. The Observer has sections which are designed to appeal to
different types of readers.The Observer reflects the diversity of its readership in articles on...
5. Newspaper readership can still be used as a symbol of one’s social identity. The term ‘Guardian reader’ connotes a certain type of social attitude and The Observer similarly reinforces
a set of social and political attitudes, and thus identity, in its representations. For example, Observer readers like to think of themselves as open-minded and this is reflected in the Observer’s practice of allowing both sides of an argument equally to be put when the newspaper is clearly on one side of this argument. There is an example of this in....
6. The entertainment function of newspapers may take the form of humour. It may take the form of diversion into
a celebrity world of ‘glamour’. It may take the form of human interest stories in which readers are invited to sympathise with the subjects of the article. Newspapers further offer games, puzzles, crosswords and the like. At the higher end, sections such as the New Review in the Observer may offer the pleasure
of extremely well-written think pieces and literature reviews. An example of this is....
