LR of the Assessment

1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).

EBI: Learn the CSPS more and the theorists 
WWW: both cps were talk were about 

2) Read the whole mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Identify three potential points that you could have made in your Question 3 answer - the i newspaper standing for "quality, clarity and independence".

Q3:

• Launched by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev so question marks over true independence.
• Selection of stories, despite the main story on 21 September, still contains a lot of weak, Metro-style soft news (e.g. animal stories, celebrity or Royal news). The Independent famously refused to cover Royal stories but the i does cover Meghan Markle in this edition so therefore has a softer line.

3) Now use the mark scheme to identify three potential points that you could have made in your Question 4 answer - arguments against statutory regulation of the newspaper industry.

Q4:

• Newspapers must be free to pursue investigative journalism – Clay Shirky describes news as a “social good” that is so vital to democracy.
• The i already stands for “quality, clarity and independence” – if it is failing to do this, the pluralist media marketplace will see audiences go elsewhere. Government regulation should not be required.
• IPSO is more powerful than the PCC and can fine newspapers and order them to print corrections or apologies on the front page. The Daily Mail has been forced to do this on several occasions, for example following a story regarding an Iraqi man’s compensation claim.

4) Now use the mark scheme to identify three potential points that you could have made in your Question 5 answer - whether the pluralist model allows the newspaper industry to operate effectively.

Q5:

• In terms of ‘a variety of values and ideologies’, the Daily Mail promotes a strongly rightwing, anti-immigration, pro-Brexit line (although this has softened somewhat recently with the appointment of Geordie Greig to replace Paul Dacre)... 
• This decline in quality threatens the future of the newspaper industry – in no way could it be argued to be ‘operating effectively’. We are now in the era of ‘fake news’ with trust in journalism falling and audiences largely unwilling to pay for news.
• In terms of ‘a variety of values and ideologies’, the Daily Mail promotes a strongly rightwing,...