12 UK Landeskunde: “Print Media”
• https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/is-debate-under-threat-on-uk-campuses/
• https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universities-to-comply-with-free-speech-
duties-or-face-sanctions
• https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/apr/04/are-single-sex-schools-
the-safe-option-after-abuse-scandal (this topic won’t be included in the exam)
In Britain, the term media includes:
• Print media (newspapers & magazines, the press)
• Broadcasting Media (television & radio)
• Other media (books, DVDs, cinema, internet)
69% of Britons obtain their daily news from television, 20% from newspapers and
11% from radio
Oakland, p321
Print Media:
Over the last 200 years, an expanded educational system, abolition of government
control, developments in print technology and Britain‘s small physical size … has
created a free, outspoken and often controversial print media
Oakland, p 322
• Quality papers – 1st British papers
• Times (1785)
• Observer (1791)
• Catering for a relatively small, educated market
Oakland, p 323
Popular papers:
• 19th Century
• Printed on Sunday (day off)
• News of the World (1843)
• The people (1881)
o Inexpensive and aimed at the expanding and increasingly literate
working class Oakland, p 315
Terminology:
• Quality – broadsheets
• Popular – tabloids
• Masthead (red tops)
• Gutter press (not yellow!)
• Paparazzi – Fleet Street
• Popularity? Content?
