Q9 OBSERVER ONLINE: MESSAGES & VALUES PREP

1.  The major use of newspapers is to offer a sense of knowing what is going on in the world.The Observer knows that its readers are serious and interested in international affairs. This is evident in hard news articles about..... LABOUR SET TO CALL VOTE TO TOPPLE THERESA MAY'S GOVERNMENT and MoD SENDS PLANNERS TO MINISTRIES OVER POST-BREXIT BORDER FEARS and TAKING BACK CONTROL? BREXIT SEEMS TO OFFER EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE 

2. The Observer meets its audience's need for a range of cultural, sporting and artistic news. It provides these with... 2019 BRIT AWARD NOMINATIONS TOPPED BY ANNE MARIE AND DUA LIPA AGAIN and ROMA/ OSCAR CONTENDER STIRS UP NOSTALGIA AND GUILT IN MEXICO'S MIDDLE CLASSES and BODY IMAGE/ WHY LEADING MEN ARE DRIVEN TO BE BUFF

3. The Observer does not shy away from 'difficult' issues that could make uncomfortable reading, such as... KINGS OF COCAINE and PRISONS AND PROBATION and NAZANIN ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE/ CAPTIVE FEARFUL AS SHE PREPARES FOR IRAN JAIL HUNGER STRIKE

4.  The Observer has sections which are designed to appeal to different types of readers.The Observer reflects the diversity of its readership in articles on... CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA and SLEEP DEPRIVED PUPILS NEED EXTRA HOUR IN BED 

5.  Newspaper readership can still be used as a symbol of one’s social identity. The term ‘Guardian reader’ connotes a certain type of social attitude and The Observer  similarly reinforces a set of social and political attitudes, and thus identity, in its representations. For example, Observer  readers like to think of themselves as open-minded and this is reflected in the Observer’s practice of allowing both sides of an argument equally to be put when the newspaper is clearly on one side of this argument. There is an example of this in.... SLEEP DEPRIVED PUPILS

6.  The entertainment function of newspapers may take the form of humour.  It may take the form of diversion into a celebrity world of ‘glamour’. It may take the form of human interest stories in which readers are invited to sympathise with the subjects of the article. Newspapers further offer games,puzzles, crosswords and the like. At the higher end, sections such as the New Review in the Observer may offer the pleasure of extremely well-written think pieces and literature reviews. An example of this is.... 2019 BRIT AWARD NOMINATIONS TOPPED BY ANNE MARIE AND DUA LIPA AGAIN