A Level Media Extended Essay

We will also see the change in the way the story is reported and why the change came about.

             The way that Glen Hoddle is represented in the papers is very clear. Before Hoddle was sacked all the pictures that we see of Glen Hoddle shows him with a very worried look on his face. They are not all recent but they have been chosen to fit the situation. They could have been from years ago from when Hoddle was at Swindon and was worried about relegation and money problems. However when the reader sees a picture of Hoddle with a worried expression they automatically think that it is a recent picture and shows how Hoddle is really feeling when really we see what the paper wants us to think about how Hoddle is feeling.

             There is once instance in the when the mirror get a interview with Hoddle the reporter the conducted the interview Harry Harris we get a photo from a while back taken at a training camp and there is Hoddle and Harry Harris together and they are both smiling. This picture has been included to show that there is a relationship between the two, allegedly. This is meant to show that Hoddle is speaking frankly to somebody that he knows and is going to be a interview from the heart and that is the way that the paper has been published. The photos all make sure that the eyes of Hoddle are an important factor of the picture. Also in later shots the way his body language and his style of clothes are very similar to a type of television preacher that is going to ask you to donate money to a certain charity.

             There is a big change in the way that Glen Hoddle is portrayed in the Mirror. The mirror starts off with the opinion that Hoddle is "Arrogant" ( Mirror 1st Feb.) and should go. The 'voice" of the mirror which makes the papers view point very clear shows how it believes Hoddle is wrong. ( Mirror 1st feb.) However a few days after the bad publicity storeys the mirror got a break.

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