GILROY NEWS QUESTION PLAN

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ANALYSE THE REPRESENTATIONS IN SOURCES A AND B, USE GILROY'S IDEAS IN YOUR ANSWER. 
SOURCE A:
//Genre - Mid-market Tabloid
//Ideologies - Anti-migrant, anti-sustainability
//Audience - C2DE, M/F, 40-50, British, right-wing
//Image - Celebrity appeal for gossip-hungry audience that aren't too bothered about the current affairs main story. Stereotypical representation of young white woman.
//Gilroy - Supports his theory as they are 'invading' Britain, othering their race as a whole as alien and unwanted, we are hanging onto this WW1 Britain and not accepting that multiculturalism is a big part of our society as a whole.

SOURCE B:
//Genre - Broadsheet
//Ideologies - Pro-migrant, sympathetic
//Audience - ABC1, M/F, 20-40, British, Accomplished, Woke, left-wing
//Image - Unconventional negative representation of the suffering being inflicted on man due to council decisions, not stereotypical to show a man crying or a vulnerable black man.
//Gilroy - Though the story and evidence supports the ideas of deep-rooted racism in our society, the representation of the black race within the front cover is not. He is represented as vulnerable and frightened, not scary and dangerous as Gilroy claims them to be in the media today.

PLAN:
//Intro - Both papers construct representations of race and political ideas in our society via their use of language, targeting different audiences due to their different genres. Source A is a mid-market tabloid, targeting C2DE brits who typically have a right-wing political leaning, whereas the Broadsheet Guardian has a younger ABC1 audience who are more so left-wing.
//Source A: 
- Large masthead covers page and exaggerates anti-migrant ideology.
- Absence of image for main article, perhaps not to appear obviously racist or not overly political and serious.
- Celebrity appeal is more important than the real academic articles so big image.
//Source B:
- Image supports main article and gives sympathetic tone. 
- Large amount of copy for all featured articles shows academic ideologies driving paper.
- Small amount of celebrity appeal along the puff for pop-culture loving millenials that read the paper.
//Conclusion - To conclude, both papers represent race in order to engage audiences, along with star appeal, but catering to different audiences. The Guardian aims to be more sympathetic and political correct in order to rally it's right-wing readers whereas the Express is more focused on being entertaining for its audience, with politics holding up the backbone of the ideologies present on the cover.

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