Comments on: Curious repeating headlines in the Daily Express

By: NewsFrames

NewsFrames — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:01:32 +0000

I think it’s both – no doubt there are multiple, complex historic causes resulting in a given viewpoint on the world, but constantly repeating front-page framing (which people read every day) is certainly an important factor, I would think. And then, of course, we tend to seek out information which confirms – rather than refutes – our prejudices.

By: mrtompratt

mrtompratt — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:16:32 +0000

Great analysis of the headlines which paints a grim picture. Do you think people look for headlines that reinforce their views or that it’s the headlines which help form these views in the first first place? This country’s not what it used to be!

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By: rich.

rich. — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:33:54 +0000

Great stuff. shared at craigmurray.org.uk

By: D.A Lascelles

D.A Lascelles — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:58:27 +0000

I suspect ‘Muslim’ articles come under ‘immigrants’. I know that most of the stories I have read in such papers mentioning anything to do with Islam tend to target the benefit scrounging/evil immigrant aspects rather than attack the religion with a few mentioning terrorist links (though mainly only as a main part of the story when there has been a recent attack or similar). There was a lot of press coverage of Abu Hamza, for example, both linking to his benefits claims and his extradition case.

A not entirely unexpected pattern here, I have to say. This is one reason I rarely bother to read newspapers any more. The more I look at them, the more obvious the bias seems to be to me. Either I am getting better at spotting it or they are getting less good at hiding it….

By: Eddie Truman (@eddietruman)

Eddie Truman (@eddietruman) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:29:30 +0000

Surely there’s a Muslims category also? We’ve carried plenty of them on Islamoaphobia Watch

By: wokattack

wokattack — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:04:21 +0000

Reblogged this on What Journalism and commented: A very interesting study of the Daily Express

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:00:05 +0000

I counted the themes and worked out the percentage of the total for each group.

Theme .. Count.. %… Count.. %…
Weather 12 19.35 9 19.14
Health 23 37.09 15 31.91
Them 8 12.90 4 8.51
Europe 7 11.29 13 27.65
Pensions 7 11.29 6 12.76
Other 5 8.06 0 0

Have you noticed how often the paper reverses itself within the week? The week after Christmas there was both a PENSIONS BOOST FOR MILLIONS and a NEW PENSIONS CRISIS. The week before that everyone was going to die from blood pressure but fortunately there was also a cure. On the 14th of June, we faced 80MPH STORM CHAOS, on the next day it was SUMMER. On the 27th of June, dieting would give you a HEART ATTACK, but on the 9th of July you were advised to LOSE WEIGHT WITHIN DAYS.

It’s exhausting just looking at them, to be honest. (Depressingly I was in Luton yesterday and one of the Vauxhall factories has turned into the Express Newspapers printing plant. From making useful vans to converting perfectly good trees and ink into this drivel.)

By: DarkMachine

DarkMachine — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:48:39 +0000

The ‘hope’ part of the health angle is there to remind people of their fear of death. As soon as you see these ‘hope’ stories you instantly think ‘I might need that because I’m going to die!’. All about re-enforcing the narrative of fear and hatred. It’s like seeing a drug to make you happy. You probably weren’t unhappy before, but now you’re thinking about it, could you be ‘more’ happy? Are you happy ‘enough’? Is something wrong with you? Oh gods you’re going to die eventually! AHHH!

Then again, my grandmother reads the Express. A stodgy old-aged, demented, racist conservative who still believes in a world that disappeared 50 years ago. It’s comforting to her to read it and moan.

By: NewsFrames

NewsFrames — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:21:04 +0000

Indeed. (And occasionally, with the health/illness theme, they’ll throw in some hope – eg a new cure. All the more to make it an emotional roller-coaster ride).