the times language and audience

NEWSPAPERS: THE TIMES - LANGUAGE AND AUDIENCE

 Audience

1) What is the main readership demographic for The Times newspaper? Add as much detail as you can.​

The Times is a newspaper owned by News Corp. The circulation figures for the print version are 451,261 and the readership being around1 million, with the majority of those who read the news, provided by The Times, being those who read it from the online edition.

2) What aspects of the front page of the Times CSP edition suggest that their readers are likely to be more 

educated and interested in hard news rather than entertainment?

The newspaper uses recent things that have happened, e.g. political things, this shows the things that they readers to see also they can have the name of being the "news" to a more literal way so that they don't get criticised on their newspaper for only having entertainment but still have entertainment on it.

3) Times readers are mostly over 55 years old. Why is this and how is this reflected by the new stories and kickers in the CSP pages we have studied?  

Their newspapers are mainly focused on things that actually happen but that also includes things like the royal family being mentioned a lot so the use of the print newspapers and the news that is inside, they make it more comfortable for the elderly to use, also the stories have things related to the events or things that the elderly are used to.

4) What is the main audience pleasure offered by the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory.

The main audience pleasure is to inform and educate as The Times newspaper mostly consist of things that are mostly for information purposes but at times there can be more entertainment.

5) Why might a reader enjoy this CSP edition of the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory categories and write as detailed an analysis as you can.

Someone might enjoy the contents of the paper, like all the news about the royal family or the recent events that have happens because of certain people or something happening, so that they can go into more detail of the print paper or just the paper itself.

Language

1) What is the main story on the front cover of the Times CSP edition (26 April 2019) and why does it appeal to Times readers?

It is about the royal family having a dispute about each other and how they tried to fix it, it may appeal to them because the royal family is something in Britain and is quite a big subject so it will appeal to them by talking about what they like.

2) List the other news stories and kickers on the front page of the Times CSP edition. Why do you think the Times selected these for the front page?

The news about the royal family is very dominant on the print meaning that the whole newspaper seems to only be on the royal family, but there is one about a person "Sri Lanka tourist being warned for more terror", The Times may have picked this as it is still news and their newspaper isn't only about entertainment, so they need to include somethings that has happened currently otherwise would be said that they aren't a good news source.

3) What are the main stories on the inside pages of the Times CSP edition and how are they constructed to appeal to Times readers?  

The Times' main stories are about the royal family and things that are related to British culture, these appeal to the reader as their news is mainly focused in England and it shows things about the place that they live in.

4) Which of Galtung and Ruge's News Values apply to the Times's front page stories? Write about both the main story on private schools and the government leak enquiry. 

They both talk about things that reflect things that may have major impacts towards the audiences in the future as they may change things to a way that they don't like or they could inform them about the things about how the private schools having some sort of changes to them e.g costing more as of the current coronavirus.

5) What does a close analysis of the news stories in the Times CSP edition suggest about the Times's political beliefs?

The times is a right wing party meaning that they support things like people of the LGBTQ community and are usually capitalists this can be shown from the news that they show and represent to the public like things about the royal family or things that have entertainment on them, they don't usually redact information from people, and usually have a sense of telling the audience for what they want and still  informing them at the same time.