Examine the sun's coverage of the royal family in the edition of Monday 10th November and Tuesday 11th November.

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Examine the sun’s coverage of the royal family in the edition of Monday 10th November and Tuesday 11th November

                The sun is a tabloid newspaper, which is a national paper often grouped with The Daily Mirror, The People and News of the World. It’s slogan “Dedicated to the people of Britain”, suggests that it is only created for the people in Britain. The sun is a popular tabloid newspaper, it shows bias because it shows it’s own point of view. Tabloids are aimed at social groups, C2, D, E, these social groups come under the job titles of plumber, postal workers, casual workers and also the unemployed. Tabloid newspapers are aimed at social groups who are generally not educated to a further education level and are also less skilled readers. Tabloid newspapers rely on bold layouts such as headings, colour photographs, more human interest stories, more light hearted coverage such as media and soap stars and short articles which are not covered in great depth this is because some people do not enjoy reading lots but have curiosity in the latest news.

        The Sun Newspaper is part of an international news group, owned by Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch is known to be a republican, he wishes to see the end of monarchy and the royal family, in Australia his country of origin and in Britain. The editorial policy of the newspaper, the bias the paper shows is supposed to be in control of the editor, but Murdoch has used the Sun to attack the members of the royal family.  However Rupert Murdoch has used the Sun to attack members of the royal family. On the death of Princess Diana in 1997, the whole royal family including the queen was attacked.  Most recently, Prince Charles has been singled out and compared unfavourably with his mother the queen, prince Edward and William and Harry his sons.

         The Sun gives blanket coverage of the royal family starting from page one all the way up to page eight except for the page three girls. The sun usually would print more of a mix of news stories and celebrity gossip, but the royal family is viewed as a soap opera by the paper. In the Sun’s newspaper, we looked at Monday 10th November and Tuesday 11th November newspapers. We studied the coverage of the royal family, the lead article of Monday’s newspaper was about Charles’ sexuality, and this is compared unflatteringly with the secondary article about the queen leading Remembrance Day and Sophie and Edward’s baby.

        The by line tells us that Paul Thompson is the name of the report editor. The by line is at the start of this article and this is because he must be a well-respected reporter. The lead article uses play on words, some headlines include a pun or are quite blunt, and this may be because the headline is a summary of the whole story. The headline is always in bold print because they want it to stand out. I think that the sub-heading is significant because it is just above the article but does not tell you allot. The newspaper puts theses particular stories on the front page because the public are interested in these stories.

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        Photographs are used by all different kind of newspapers because they attract the reader’s attention. The photograph on the front page of Monday 10th November is a picture of Prince Charles’ face. In the picture the prince does not look very happy he looks upset and “Grim faced” as the journalist has described and used a number of times in the lead article.

The lead article on the accusations about prince Charles’ sexuality has in big bold font, “CHARLES’ MOMENT OF TRUTH”, the writing is in white with a black background, from this we learn that this is something serious ...

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