THE OBSERVER VALUES

Study the online newspaper extract to revise exam Q. 9 (below). To make this prep quick and easy, all you have to do is copy / paste the text below and identify all relevant articles or features that represent the newspaper's values:

  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..... Brexit, Prisons, Police arrests and US news

2. The Observer meets its audience's need for a range of cultural, sporting and artistic news. It provides these with... articles about a range of topics, for example music,  current affairs, historical events, education as well as branching out to scientific studies, there is a wide range of articles based on a variety of different topics.

3. The Observer does not shy away from 'difficult' issues that could make uncomfortable reading, such as... the rise of serious crimes, Trump threatening a National Emergency, a Saudi teen having a long travel to safety, the harsh truth of the Brexit deal

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... Music, Studies and Politics are all covered which may be interesting to a diverse audience as they share different interests

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....

 The title of the main article 'Labour set to call vote to topple...' clearly shows that the newspaper is more left-wing but doesn't directly criticise more right-wing parties

 

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....

In this particular extract there is only 1 piece which completely supports this - the article about music, but it says 'again' meaning they have had previous stories about it, as well as having no way of introducing the two names 'Dua Lipa and Anne-Marie', suggests again that previous articles have been covering them.