MiguelPmedia2019

This cover presents The Observer 's view on war, gender, divorce and Racism.  The main image is a low medium close-up shot of a mix-raced couple, which connotes that the paper's view on mix-raced is very supportive. The fact that it was a front page news, represents how racist and surprised people were in the 1960s about mix-raced marriage. The main story "Union postpone strike" this shows that people were now beginning to standing up for themselves, for equal rights, etc. After WW1 and WW2, women were commonly seen in the workplace, equal to men and gained the vote (however they did not have equal pay which still continues today). In the 1960s America and France were in war with Northern Vietnam, this war was the first ever televised war. The public were devastated when they saw was happening, so strikes of piece started to happen. At the time Vietnam had been going for 13 years (the war occurred through 1955-1975, this cover was published in 1968).  ...

News Introduction Newspapers in the 1960s/2010s: N ewspapers in the 1960s were already fearing competition from other media – in this case, television . However, newspaper circulations were very high by today’s standards . The peak in newspapers’ circulation was in the early 1950s, with decline ever since. By 1965, circulation of Sunday newspapers had fallen to 25 million, which represented 1.4 newspapers per household (a fall from over 2 per household in the 1950s), meaning that it was common to buy more than one Sunday newspaper. By comparison, total circulation of Sunday newspapers in 2010 was down to about 10 million, which represents about 0.4 per household. The segmentation of the newspaper market in the 1960s reflected the clear class and political differences in society: Labour supporting working class readers bought the Mirror , Conservative supporting working class readers bought the Daily Express ; the social elite re ad The Times , the Conservati...