5. Comparison of how the news
is delivered via these platforms
• Accessibility - the BBC news website is very accessible, but only if you
have a data connection and are tech savvy. Newspapers and the TV don’t
require a data connection or tech knowledge to be accessed, but you
cannot buy a newspaper or watch TV everywhere like you can with a mobile
device.
• Environment - consuming the news via the TV and online can be
considered more eco-friendly as they don’t use paper, but electricity is
required to use a mobile device or a television.
• Multi-media - the news on TV and online can include videos and audio
related to the story, with newspapers they are purely visual.
• Speed - the news on TV and online can update very quickly and give you
the news as it happens, newspaper articles need to be written, printed and
then distributed before you can read the same story.
11. Contrasting how the news is
delivered via these platforms
Viewpoint:
• The BBC article is a lot more biased towards the pilots who are being wrongly
blamed for the flight cancellations. This article is unusual in that the journalist
writes the article in first person, whereas normally articles are in third person. The
story is therefore presented slightly through their viewpoint, as they say “But I got
a completely different message from several former and current Ryanair pilots”.
• Channel 4 are fairly neutral as they have interviews with both passengers affected
by the cancellations and with the CEO of Ryanair. It could be argued that they are
biased towards the CEO as they show him explaining why the cancellations have
happened, rather than the pilots explaining it.
• The Independent are also mostly neutral, but imply that the CEO is at fault as
they use the phrase “Ryanair blamed a number of factors”. This implies that the
CEO is trying to find excuses for the cancellations, rather than taking the blame
himself.
12. Contrasting how the news is
delivered via these platforms
Bias:
• The BBC is generally politically neutral and give both sides of the story in
the majority of their articles. This is because the BBC are a PSB so they
have to remain politically neutral and clearly distinguish opinion from fact,
so they can appeal to the mass audience who pay to keep the BBC running.
• Channel 4 is generally more left wing and this shows in their video as they
make people feel sorry for the passengers. This appeals to their fairly young
target audience, as young people today are generally more liberal.
• The I newspaper always includes both right and left-wing stories and
viewpoints, but their viewership is generally centre-left. Throughout the
newspaper there will be articles that take very different political stances, but
in this particular one the journalist seems to be more left-wing as explained
in the previous slide.
13. Information not included on
some platforms
• Channel 4 News gives a lot more coverage of the CEO’s
point of view than the other two news distributers
• The I includes information about the amount of money
that is being refunded
• The BBC article focuses heavily on the pilots’ opinions
whereas the other two methods don’t really cover what
the pilots had to say at all
• Channel 4 also gives opinions from the passengers
affected by the cancellations
