The 3 news items we chose was: -Joe Hart Retiring from football. -The 0.25 rise of interest rates. -The train crash that kills 40 and injures 270 in Sweden. / We chose Joe Hart Retiring from football as the main news story because the target audience of this news paper is middle aged working class men with quite a low interlect. And stereotypically this kind of target audience follow football and will know who Joe Hart is because he is a high profile goalkeeper being the ex England no1 and played for manchester city for many years winning trophies. Also this event is quite rare soon as Joe hart is only 31 and is very well known, him retiring will be a shock to everyone. / We chose the 0.25 rise of interest rate as one of the main news stories because it affects everyone who has a mortgage or has borrowed money from a bank the will be loosing more money than they would of been before. This is really bad for the middle class males who this news paper is targeted for because they a...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY The White Stripes - 'Seven Nation Army' The music video is an abstract video, it contains a lot of triangles with the band members inside moving forward. The band contains a female drummer which challenges the stereotype that, that instrument is mostly used by males. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb24RrHIbFk Logic - '1-800-273-8255' In the music video, there is a narrative about a gay school boy who gets judged for being queer making him really depressed and wanting to commit suicide, but towards the end of the video the boys family come to accept that he is homosexual. which challenges the stereotype of usually rap music video what usually contains violence. The setting of the music video also challenges the stereotyper of all rap music takes place in an suburban area making the video look threatening, where as this music video takes place in a school.
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The BBC news video clip is about a yeman airstrike that killed 42 school children who were on a school bus. The news value of this event isn't as big as it should be in the uk because of how geographical far away this country is from uk even though a lot of children died there still wasn't much coverage. The negativity of this event is very high because it was a massive tragedy that ended with 42 deaths what doesn't happen often at all, so when this type of event occurs the news coverage tends to be very high. The audience of the news