Newspapers: Weekly Media homework - news stories

 The very simple detail: every week you must find, read, and post two news stories from the websites of our two newspaper CSPs (one from Mail Online and one from The Guardian website):

Mail Online
The Guardian website 

1. Copy the headline, date and link.
2. Briefly summarise the story in a sentence or two: is this is an example of hard news or soft news? Does it reflect the politics or ideological stance of that newspaper/website?
3. Explain in a sentence how or why this story appeals to the audience of that newspaper (use media terminology and theory if you can). Is it quality journalism or an example of clickbait?

Mail Online

12:20 GMT, 4 March 2025    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html 

'Tangible desperation': Critics' withering reviews of Meghan Markle's Netflix show as they mock 'gormless lifestyle filler' that shows her 'joylessly filling party bags with seeds'

Mail Online

10:02 GMT, 26 March 2025 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html 

Rowan Atkinson's daughter Lily Sastry speaks for the first time about the 'darkness' of her parents' divorce after they split over his 'unreasonable behaviour'

The Guardian

26/03/2025

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