Tabloids V Broadsheets
Q1) What are the main differences between a tabloid and a broadsheet? Broadsheet newspapers are traditionally more 'serious' and 'quality' and are considered as 'popular press' whereas tabloids are aimed at socially lower grades (C, C2, D&E)
Q2) What category of newspaper was the Observer in the 1960s?
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its sister papers The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly, it takes a social liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It was a broadsheet.
Q3) What Category of newspaper is it now? Why? How has it changed?
The Observer is primarily a broadsheet
Televisions and radios threatened newspapers in the 1960s
What percentage had Sunday Newspaper circulation figures fallen by 1965?
By 1965, Sunday Newspaper circulation figures had dropped down to 25 million leading to 1.4 newspapers per household.
By comparison, by what percentage were figures down to in 2010?
Newspaper circulations dropped down to 10 million leading to 0.4 per household.
Q1) Which paper did working class Labour supporters read?
Q2) Which newspaper did working class Conservative supporters buy?
Q3) Which newspaper did the social elite read?
They bought The Times
Q4) Which newspaper did middle class Conservative supporters buy?
They bought The Guardian
Q5) Which newspaper did middle class Labour/Liberal supporters buy?
They were better off with online media
Q6) How does this differ in 2010?
What do the quotes reveal about life in the 1960s? How was it different from now in terms of gender, race, politics, workers rights and religion?
Explain how broadsheet newspapers reflect the time and historic
contexts in which they were published. Refer to the Observer front page
from October 20th 1966 that you have studied to support your answer.
(10 marks)
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