Case Study 3: News Stories Covering Start of General Election Campaign 2015

Testing What I've Learned:

• The angle of a news story is how balanced a story is. For example parties that are more right winged are most likely to get their views shown on television
• Tabloid delivered news is more aimed at making celebrities their main priority whereas broadsheet delivered stories revolve around politics
• An example of a tabloid-style TV news programme would be BBC Three's 60 Seconds because they focus more on things like award shows and music
• An example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme would be BBC World News because they put the news on politics and war at the start of the bulletin
• International news is news that affects the world. National news is news that affects the country. Regional news is news that affects the region. Local news is news that affects the local area

BBC News Election Story:

• This is international news because the news stories that are aired on this show are mainly stories from different countries
• The BBC are paid to be balanced, however, they have recently been accused for being biased over the topic of the General Election of 2015
• This is more of a broadsheet-style news programme because the more important news stories are delivered first
• Almost every age group would watch this news programme because it is run off the audience's taxes. People would watch it because they pay for it

Sky News Election Story:

• This is international news because this is not paid for by the public, therefore they can deliver whatever stories that they choose to deliver
• The Sky News cover of the General Election is more left winged because they are paid to give their own opinions in stories
• This news show is a mix between a tabloid-style coverage and a broadsheet style coverage because the stories are delivered in a random order
• This TV news programme is expected to be watched by all ages starting from 13+ because teenagers need to be informed of what is going on in the country

STV (Scottish) Coverage of The Election Story:

• This TV news programme is national news because it is supporting the country that they are working for, however they cannot bias their news
• This news channel delivers its news on the election neither right-winged nor left-winged. It has to be balanced
• This is a more tabloid-style coverage of the general election because it doesn't take up a big part of their news show
• This TV news show is most likely to be watched by Scottish people in and away from Scotland, hence the title STV news

Channel 4 News Coverage of the Election Story:

• This TV news programme is national news. It's whole franchise works for the United Kingdom
• This is a biased TV news programme
• This has a more broadsheet-style when shown on TV
• This would be watched by an older group of people in England