Homework- Newspaper representation

My chosen newspaper is from May 23^rd 2013.

My chosen newspaper represents the issue as a major issue that is happening in society by dedicating all of the front page to the issue and also by the boldness of the headline symbolises just how big a problem this issue is not just in Britain but in the world. The boldness of the headline could also highlight the urgency for someone to come up with an idea to stop this issue from happening in the world.

With the image that they use, they show us the person who committed the crime with a bloody chopper in his hand. This image also shows the man with blood on his hands. This image influences the audience to not allow children to see it as it is too detailed for them to see it and if they do then it could have a massive effect on them for the future as well as there and then. The image also is shaping the audience to be sickened at the sight of what has happened and by adding the detail that they do, they could be wanting the audience to stand up to terrorism. However, by using this image and showing the colour of the person skin, it could symbolise to a younger audience that people who doesn’t have white skin are the people who commit these crimes which isn’t true. In this newspaper, thy only use this central image on the front cover to symbolise how much more protection that we need on the streets. Another thing that they decide to do is put a subheading within the masthead in bold, capital, black letters. This could represent the idea in another way that people who don’t have white skin commit this terror that we see on the streets. This could also have an impact on the audience as they will agree with the subheading the evil face of terror. The main headline is in detail and they tell the audience exactly how he killed the person. This impact that this would have on the audience is that it would make them feel sick at the graphic detail about the death. The headline could also be a cry out to the government to make the streets of Britain safe as the headline states that it took place on a British street. A reason that the paper could be including the way that the person was killed could symbolise that they want the audience to react and start to make an impact for this to be stopped. In the subheading at the bottom of the page the use the word butchers. This could symbolise to the audience that the person was chopped up into pieces just like meat is in a butchers and create a horrific image in the readers mind. This could also symbolise to the reader that the killer intended to kill him this way, which could suggest to the audience that he had this planned beforehand. Finally, the way that they dedicate the whole of front page to this story without including any other story, symbolises the importance of this issue and also how no one is doing much to change this.

The cumulative effect of these repeated patterns of representation over long periods of time is going to make the audience believe that the world is full a bad news more than good news as this is all that most papers represent in their papers. It’s also going to make parents believe that the world that we live in isn’t safe enough to bring up kids in and also it’s going to make parents want to be more overprotective over their children than they already are. For a younger audience’s point of view, seeing this repeated will make them believe that future for them isn’t going to be a positive future and also they are just going to view the badness in the world rather than the goodness in the world as all they have seen during their childhood in the news has been negative rather than positive.