Newspaper Audience Response (Gerbner)

George Gerbner: Argues that exposure to repeated patterns of representation over a long period of time can shape and influence the way in which people can receive the world around them.

Newspapers including the following topics:
- Pro Corbyn
- Anti - Corbyn
- Pro May
- Anti - May
- Pro Trump
- Anti - Trump
- Pro Brexit
- Anti - Brexit
- Immigration
- Muslims
- Refugee Crisis.
- Free schools?
- Rich VS Poor ft. Grenfall
- NHS funding
- Strikes
- Mass Shooting
- US Gun Laws
- ISIS

How to spot Bias in a newspaper...

-Bias through Pictures/graphics - E.g. Camera angles, captions.

-Bias through Word choice and tone in the body of the text. 

-Bias through choice of Journalist and sources - Who is writing it and what are their beliefs, and who have they got their information from?

-Bias through choice of Journalist and sources - Who is writing it and what are their beliefs, and who have they got their information from?

-Bias through omission and selection - Whether the article is even published or not.

 - Bias by headline

-Bias by use of names and titles - E.g. 'terrorist' or 'freedom fighter'? 'Ex con' or 'someone who served a sentence a long time ago.'

-Bias through statistics and Crowd counts - E.g. 'A hundred injured in air crash' or 'Only Minor injuries in an Air crash.'