A Level Media Extended Essay

Hoddle left the Rupert Murdock papers namely the Times where the story was taken from and made the mirror the paper to give his exclusive interviews and show the other side of the argument. The mirror then Changes it"s attitude slightly and the Headlines have changed from, "Sack Hoddle now for slur on disabled"(Mirror 31st Jan.) to "What I really believe" ( Mirror 2 Feb.). The voice of the mirror now says of how Glen Hoddle is not an evil man he has been miss - understood. We have gone from "Arrogant" to "Honest Hod is worth one last chance" ( Mirror 2nd Feb.) The mirror will use every chance it gets to attack the Murdock papers and this way shown yet again. We also now start to hear about all the good work that Hoddle is doing for the disabled. When Hoddle is sacked we also then hear about how Hoddle"s mother works with disabled people. There is also one good set of pictures and that is where after Hoddle has been sacked and we hear about the comments the Tony Blair is said to have made there is a picture of Blair all smiles and another picture of Hoddle with a very withdrawn expression on his face.

             The representation of Hoddle could of been less biased there was only one side portrayed for a while when the story first broke did anybody think of looking at it from another point of view? It does change but the reasons behind this don"t come from renewed faith in Hoddle.

             The genre of the Mirror is tabloid. It is aimed at a social class from B - E it is a paper that is meant to give you scandal or create public opinion. The storeys might not all be true but they are there for interest. Stories on celebrities or events that would not make it into a 'Classy" broadsheet might get a four page spread in a tabloid. A tabloid paper will also have a much larger audience then the broadsheets. The main objective of a broadsheet is to inform a tabloid on the other hand is there to entertain.

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