Media Representations

Popular and quality newspapers

• Popular newspapers include: The Sun, The Daily Express, The Daily Mirror etc.
• They sometimes like to have fun with their headlines, and often seen biased
• Quality newspapers include: The Guardian, The Times, The Independent etc.
• They usually have more sober and less humorous headlines, but they are still have biased views
• Their owners and editors usually dictate the 'policy line' they adopt.

Putting forward a biased view

• Quality newspapers are more factual than others
• But both popular and quality newspapers tend to give more emphasis to the side of argument they tend to favour than the other…