The Times is a daily national British newspaper which is based in London They started in 1785 but with the name The Daily Universal Register and then adopted its current name in 1788. It has a daily circulation of 417,298 in January 2019. The Mirror or better known as The Daily Mirror is also a daily national British newspaper that was founded in 1903, it has a daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016.
Tabloids are often considered to be less serious as it has small pages, short articles and lots of photographs. The Mirror is a tabloid, The Mirror has a red top tabloid format.
The other known format is broadsheet which is the largest newspaper format and is characterised by long vertical pages. The Times is a broadsheet, which is a compact broadsheet format.
The Mirror is owned by company Reach plc. which is also a British newspaper, magazine and a digital publisher and own Sunday Mirror, The Sunday People, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Daily Sunday and Scottish newspapers called Daily Record and Sunday Mail and OK! The key people of Reach plc. is Nicholas Prettejohn and Jim Mullen.
The Times is owned by News UK which is a British newspaper and owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. They also own The Sunday Times and The Sun, its former publications include Today, News of the World and The London Paper newspaper. The key people of News UK is Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks.
Both, Reach plc. and News UK are big companies that own many different newspapers and has a very powerful effect on everyone as they are basically everywhere and can express their sides of everything. Curran and Seaton's theory supports this as it's the media being controlled by a few of the most powerful and popular companies and the limitation of the concentration on to the media only causes a lack of variation, quality and creativity meaning that if we had a bigger variety of companies, we would have more of a variety in texts.
The Mirror originally pitched the middle class reader however it was converted to a working class newspaper in 1934 to reach a larger audience. The Mirror has constantly being supporting Labour Party since the 1945 general election. The Labour Party is a centre left political party and they believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. As a centre left political party, on cases like Brexit they would believe and give reasons to leave the EU and as they are very powerful and have a big audience, they can easily change a vote of every individual person reading The Mirror newspaper's. Another point is immigration,
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