21 May 2014
18 May 2014
AS MEDIA STUDIES - FA CUP FINAL REPORT FROM THE HULL DAILY MAIL - IN HOW MANY WAYS HAS THIS REPORT BEEN MEDIATED?
Hull City FA Cup final talking points: Fryatt outplayed Podolski, the corner that never was, the passion of Curtis Davies
KEPT ON RUNNING: Matty Fryatt.
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Brad Rial picks out his key talking points from the FA Cup final between Hull Cityand Arsenal. Curtis Davies pushed his body to the limit; the corner that led to the Gunners' second goal should never have been given, and special praise must go to Matty Fryatt.
As the Hull City fans poured out of Wembley yesterday, the one word on everyone’s lips was "proud".
Proud of the players, for shedding blood, sweat and tears for the cause. Proud of their manager, for leading the club to unheralded heights in such a refreshing and honest fashion. And proud of their fellow supporters, for the magnificent backing they gave the side from minute one to 120.
The fourteen players who took to the field wearing the black and amber of Hull City yesterday will forever hold a place in the hearts of fans. The 2014 FA Cup final will live long in the memory.
City fans had been asked to "Dare to Dream", but after 15 minutes, they were not dreaming but genuinely believing. It was a quite incredible start.
There is a temptation to say that yesterday was bittersweet, but that feels like too negative a description. The day had everything but the final result and I’m sure that, in years to come, thinking back to this final will bring only happy memories.
City were 2-1 up in a Wembley final with less than 20 minutes to go and they may never get a better chance to lift the FA Cup. Once the dust settles, supporters may look back on yesterday as a missed opportunity, but for a club that has often had to put up with having the words "little" and "old" placed before its name, to lose to the might of Arsenal after extra-time is far from a disgrace.
In years to come, this final will be remembered as much for City’s fight as it will be for the end of Arsenal’s trophy drought.
Davies, Chester and Bruce were immense
The opening twelve minutes or so must go down as the most frenetic in cup final history. And, from a City point of view at least, it was all about the three centre-backs.
James Chester was ruled out of the game just two weeks ago but he now joins that special group of people who have scored in a Wembley cup final. And what a lovely goal it was, too. He used the pace of the ball to neatly flick it home and it led to pandemonium in the City end.
After the pandemonium came sheer delirium when Curtis Davies doubled City’s lead just five minutes later.
If there has been a more passionate celebration than Davies’ this season then I’d love to see it. The pure emotion etched on his face was a sight to behold. Who says the FA Cup doesn’t matter anymore?
It wasn’t just the captain’s goal that had the City faithful singing his name; his overall performance was outstanding, as it has been so often this season.
And he pushed his body to the very limit right up until the final whistle. The fact that in the 120th minute he was still sprinting towards Lukasz Fabianski to try to close him down speaks volumes of the player and the man.
In all of the excitement, it’s easy to forget City were so close to going 3-0 up after just 12 minutes. That’s right: Hull City 3-0 up against Arsenal in an FA Cup final. Now that would have been something.
And in Alex Bruce, we would have had the most unlikely of scorers. It would have been some time to get his first goal for the club.
Bruce was otherwise superb and put in his usual committed, full-blooded display. What Bruce lacks in subtlety, he more than makes up for in utter determination.
Should Arsenal’s second goal have stood?
The corner that led to Arsenal’s equaliser simply shouldn’t have been given. It clearly came off of Yaya Sanogo’s leg.
The reaction of the players said it all: Allan McGregor was positively fuming and let referee Lee Probert know exactly what he thought of his decision.
If a goal kick had been awarded then it may just have been Hull City’s and not Arsenal’s name engraved on that trophy.
Super Matty Fryatt
Special praise must go to Matty Fryatt for what was a gargantuan effort.
In what could feasibly be his final game in a Tigers shirt, he as much as anyone could walk off that pitch with his head held high.
Before the game, Arsenal’s Lukas Podolski was asked about Fryatt and whether he thought he’d pose a threat to the Gunners’ defence. His response – “Who?” accompanied by a smile – smacked of arrogance and left City fans hoping our Matty could make the German eat his words. And while he may not have grabbed a goal, Fryatt made a more lasting impression than the completely anonymous Podolski.
Some City fans see Fryatt as a goal poacher and not much more. But yesterday, it was his hold-up play and work rate that was so impressive. Making his first start since the quarter-final against Sunderland, he somehow managed to complete the full 120 minutes and didn’t deserve to be on the losing side.
I sincerely hope Fryatt sticks around for next season. City are going to need a big squad to cope with the demands of the Europa League and surely it would make more sense to offer Fryatt a new deal than to spend a couple of million pounds on a striker of similar ability.
Class of 2014
Every single City player deserves an immense amount of credit for the way in which they represented the club yesterday.
In goal, Allan McGregor pulled off a couple of brilliant saves to keep Arsenal at bay. There was nothing he could do about either goal.
The wing-backs, Liam Rosenior and Ahmed Elmohamady, offered their usual endless running and put in typically selfless displays.
The midfield three of Tom Huddlestone, Jake Livermore and David Meyler did superbly to stifle the threat of Aaron Ramsey and Mesut Ozil, who was particularly disappointing.
Huddlestone was completely distraught after the game (again, try telling him that the FA Cup doesn’t matter). His former Spurs teammate Livermore will surely be Steve Bruce’s number one target this summer.
Stephen Quinn shone on the big stage and it was his lovely ball that led to Davies’ goal. He let nobody down.
The substitutes played their part as well. Sone Aluko looked especially lively and he was mightily close to making it 3-3 in extra time. On first viewing it looked as if he could have perhaps dribbled with the ball before shooting. But in the heat of the moment that is easier said than done and he did well to create the chance.
Final mentions to the other two men thrown on by Steve Bruce, George Boyd and Paul McShane, who have both led unique personal paths to the FA Cup final. It’s worth remembering that Boyd was playing in the Conference as recently as 2007.
Although the class of 2014 ultimately left Wembley without the cup, they triumphed in every other way. Well done, boys. You did the club proud.
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AS MEDIA STUDIES: THE FA CUP FINAL
How media reported FA Cup final between Hull City and Arsenal
By Mark Williams
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Mark Williams takes a look at how British and international media covered Hull City's FA Cup final defeat to Arsenal at Wembley.
New York Times
"When Curtis Davies then pounced on a deflection off the post and ripped home a shot five minutes later, it was as if the orange-and-black-striped end of Wembley had been lifted off the ground.
"That sort of beginning was what Hull City fans surely dreamed about on the 80 buses the club sent down the M1 highway Saturday morning.
"Rooting for Hull has been a difficult existence for much of the 110 years since the club was formed.
"Hull played in the fourth division as recently as 2004 and was on the brink of bankruptcy after being dropped from the Premier League in 2010 only to have Assem Allam, an Egyptian businessman, step in with an infusion of cash.
"Hull fans were surely imagining how the club's name would look on the FA Cup after their team's bright opening."
The Australian
"Hull City sensationally had kicked two goals in the first eight minutes of the soccer final.
"Based in Kingston-upon-Hull on England’s north-east coast, which is more commonly associated with rugby league, the 110-year-old club was looking to cap a remarkable recovery from the brink of obscurity."
The Sunday Times
"For much of the season Hull have been engaged in a bitter dispute with the club’s owner, Dr Assem Allam, over their name.
"The fans wanted to remain as Hull City and banners and chants proclaimed their faith.
"But, as Hull fought for every inch of the Wembley turf, frightening the life out of their stalkers, Tigers was about right.
"No one, owner, manager or fan, could have asked more of the side who finished 16th in the Premier League and had not won a match since defeating Sheffield United in the semi-final."
The Sun on Sunday:
"Steve Bruce had a game plan based on set-pieces – and how it worked as his underdogs blitzed Arsenal early on. But Arsenal’s quality eventually told."
The Sunday Mirror
"Hull City fans were cavorting in the Wembley aisles after eight minutes of mayhem and euphoria.
"Smiles as wide as Steve Bruce’s waistline. Kids too young to remember when this club almost fell out of the Football League not so long ago, lifelong fans who recall it all, even the old ladies in their tiger-print replica shirts, dancing as if Bet Lynch was staging an acid-house rave in the Rovers."
The Independent On Sunday:
"It was one of the most astonishing beginnings to any of the competition’s 133 finals."
Huffington Post
"It was to Hull and back. Hull City threatened to cause another Cup final upset a year on from Wigan's heroics. Two-nil ahead inside a quarter-of-an-hour, irrespective of Arsenal’s quality, their capitulation will bother them for decades, let alone years, as they became the second finalists this century to let a two-goal advantage slip."
HULL FOR LEATHER: The Sunday People's pull-out.
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AS MEDIA STUDIES - PARTS OF A NEWSPAPER
The following terms refer to items on an actual newspaper page.
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Banner: a wide headline extending across the entire page.
Boldface: a heavier, darker weight of a typeface; used to add emphasis (the word 'darker' here is in boldface).
Border: a rule used to form a box or to edge a photograph.
Box: a ruled border around a story or art.
Broadsheet: a full-sized newspaper, measuring roughly 14 by 23 inches.
Bumping/butting heads: headlines from adjacent stories that collide with each other. Also called Tombstoning; should be avoided whenever possible.
Byline: the reporter's name, usually at the beginning of a story.
Callouts: words, phrases or text blocks used to label parts of a map or diagram (also called factoids).
Column: a stack of text; also called a leg.
Column inch: a way to measure the depth of text or ads; it's an area one column wide and one inch deep. A space two columns wide by two inches deep would be four column inches.
Copy: the text of the story.
Crop: to indicate where a photo should be trimmed before it runs in the paper; usually done by making crop marks in the margins of the photo.
Cutline: a line or block of type providing descriptive information about a photo.
Dateline: a line located at the beginning of a news story that tells where the story takes place or where it was written.
Double truck: Two facing pages on the same sheet of newsprint, treated as one unit.
Drop head: a small headline running below the main headline; also called a deck.
Dummy: a small, detailed page diagram showing where all elements go; also, the process of drawing up a layout.
Feature: a non-hard-news story (a profile, preview, quiz, etc.) often given special design treatment.
Flag: the name of a newspaper as it's displayed on page one; also called a nameplate.
Folio: type at the top of an inside page giving the newspaper's name, date and page number.
Four-color: the printing process that combines cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow (yellow) and black to produce full-color photographs and artwork.
Headline: large type running above or beside a story to summarize its content; also called a 'head' for short.
House ad: an advertisement promoting upcoming editorial features, benefits of subscribing or an event sponsored by the newspaper. House ads are often used as filler.
Infographic: Newsroom slang for "informational graphic"; any map, chart or diagram used to analyze an event, object or place.
Jump: to continue a story on another page; text that's been continued on another page is called the jump.
Jump line: type telling the reader that a story is continued from another page.
Kicker: A short, small label above a main headline that names the subject the story is about or, in the case of sports stories, provides the final score of the game or match.
Layout: the placement of art and text on a page; to lay out a page is to design it.
Liftout quote: a graphic treatment of a quotation taken from a story, often using bold or italic type, rules or screens.
Masthead: a block of information, including staff names and publication data, often printed on the editorial page.
Mug shot: a small photo showing a person's face.
Photo credit: a line that tells who shot a photograph.
Refer: A line of bold, small type with a page number at the end that "refers" or directs readers to a related story elsewhere in the paper.
Sidebar: a small story accompanying a bigger story on the same topic.
Style: a newspaper's standardized set of rules and guidelines. Newspapers have styles for grammar, punctuation, headline codes, design principles, etc.
Slug: the key word (or words) used to locate or identify a story when it is continued on another page of the newspaper.
Tabloid: a newspaper format that's roughly half the size of a regular broadsheet, like the Weekender. White space: areas of a page free of any type or artwork.
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11 May 2014
ANALYSING PRINT MEDIA AT MEDIAKNOWALL
Link to information on the key features of a tabloid and a broadsheet newspaper.
http://www.mediaknowall.com/Basics/basics.php?pageID=printstudy
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5 May 2014
AS MEDIA STUDIES - DEFINITION OF COUGAR FROM THE URBAN DICTIONARY
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An older woman who frequents clubs in order to score with a much younger man. The cougar can be anyone from an overly surgically altered wind tunnel victim, to an absolute sad and bloated old horn-meister, to a real hottie or milf. Cougars are gaining in popularity -- particularly the true hotties -- as young men find not only a sexual high, but many times a chick with her shit together.
That cougar I met last night, showed me shit I didn't know existed, I'm goin back for more.
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AS MEDIA STUDIES - THE REPRESENTATION OF OLDER WOMEN - TRAILER FOR COUGERTOWN
In the survey referred to in the The Telegraph article, more than half of the women surveyed felt more comfortable being represented as a "cougar". Here is a trailer for the TV comedy-drama "Cougar Town". Is this a liberated woman or does it follow the usual tropes of dominant ideology? You decide...
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AS MEDIA STUDIES - THE REPRESENTATION OF OLDER WOMEN IN THE MEDIA COMPARED TO THEIR OLDER MALE COUNTERPARTS - FROM THE TELEGRAPH
Older women portrayed as 'sexless grandmothers'
Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood were still seducing women well into their 60s and even 70s.
Dame Helen Mirren agrees older women are marginalised on screen. Photo: Rex Features
But when it comes to sexy older females in films there are few, if any, examples.
In fact, if Dame Helen Mirren is to be believed, older women are lucky if they get a part at all.
The 65-year-old actress has criticised Hollywood for worshipping “at the altar of the 18- to 25-year-old male and his penis” by only portraying glamorous young women.
Now it looks like audiences are also fed up of seeing older women portrayed as "sexless grandmothers".
A survey of more than 2,000 filmgoers by the UK Film Council found over 60 per cent feel older women are not portrayed as having sexual needs or desires in film.
While men are routinely seen seducing women 20 or 30 years their junior on screen, older women are seldom seen doing the same thing.
A notable exception is the recent film Cedar Rapids, starring Sigourney Weaver, 60, opposite the comic actor Ed Harris in the role of her 35-year-old former pupil.
Despite this half the older women surveyed said they are more than comfortable seeing themselves as being 'Cougars' or attracting younger men.
The survey found seven in ten people feel that film tends to glamorise young women and older characters, especially older women, tend to be significantly under-represented.
The only parts are as villains or desexualised women, such as the role played by Dame Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal in which Dench played a sinister spinster in Zoe Heller's dark novel of obsessive friendship.
The phenomenon is also happening in television. Miriam O'Reilly won an age discrimination case against the BBC recently after she was dropped from the rural affairs show Countryfile.
The 53-year-old was told "to be careful with those wrinkles when high definition comes in" nine months before she was axed.
She said film industry is just as bad for pedalling preconceived and unfair notions of older women.
"Older women are sexually active as much as younger people are. It is a myth that older women are dried up and not capable of having loving, enjoyable sex. Older women are at it as much as young people are.
"Where did this idea come from that older women having sex is distasteful? There is nothing unattractive about older people having sex."
The presenter said middle-aged and older women are simply not seen on screen any more, even though they are a large and vibrant part of the population.
But both broadcasters and film makers are realising there is a market.
"The BBC has realised they have to represent women on televisions because their viewers are telling them they want to see themselves reflected in the programmes they watch and it is exactly the same in film."
Films addressing the subject of sex and the sixtysomething woman remain rare, except for hits like the film It’s Complicated starring Meryl Streep as a divorced woman unexpectedly pursued by her former husband Alec Baldwin.
But film audiences agree they want to see older women in 'sexier' roles.
Or simply portrayed in their real light. Dame Judi has said the secret of her success has been because she has not had Botox and the audience crave seeing 'real older women' on screen.
Jenny Eclair, the actress and comedienne, said older women deserve to be represented truthfully on screen.
She said the industry are missing the opportunity to entertain a huge audience who feel under-represented.
“Sadly this research demonstrates that, even in our culture of supposed diversity, film – one of the key cultural mediums – is still misrepresenting large proportions of UK film goers,” she said. “The industry needs to think carefully about how it portrays diverse groups – including older women – who are frustrated at still being portrayed in desexualised, stereotypical roles. The industry is in danger of continuing this misrepresentation where there is clearly the opportunity at hand to change opinion for good."
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AS MEDIA STUDIES: REPRESENTATION OF AGE. ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN CRITICISING THE REPRESENTATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND WOMEN
Television 'misrepresents' young people and older women
Broadcasters negatively stereotype young people and fail to put enough older women on screen, says BBC-commissioned report
The BBC-commissioned report comes just over a year after former Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly won her landmark ageism case against the BBC. Photograph: Rex Features
Broadcasters have been accused of negatively stereotyping young people and failing to put enough older women on screen, according to a BBC-commissioned report.
The survey of viewers and industry experts found that more than 40% of young people were dissatisfied with the way they were portrayed on screen.
Younger viewers complained that they were stereotyped as being "disrespectful" and living "unproductive and vacuous lives".
Older viewers also thought they tended to be stereotyped on television, but of more concern was the lack of middle-aged and older women on the small screen.
The report comes a year after former Countryfile presenter Miriam O'Reilly won her landmark ageism case against the BBC after she was axed from the BBC1 rural affairs show.
"There was a particular and strong concern voiced about the lack of middle-aged and older female representation on television," said the report.
"This view was expressed by both men and women of all ages but was much more ardently voiced by middle-aged and older women who believed that a person develops a 'face for radio' at a certain point in their middle years."
More than a third of women over 55 said there were too few of them on television.
The negative portrayal of older people revolved around the perceived incapacity of old people and "perceptions about a reluctance to move with the times and tendency to moan", said the report.
Viewers accused the media of being "insulting" and "out of step" with the ageing society.
"There is some concern about the way different ages are sometimes at best presented as slightly humorous but exaggerated caricatures and at worst as negative stereotypes," concluded the report.
It said the audience would "welcome more middle- and older-aged women on television providing positive role models and greater gender equality".
The research was commissioned by the BBC on behalf of the Creative Diversity Network, a forum of UK media organisations set up to improve diversity across the industry and chaired by BBC director general Mark Thompson.
It followed O'Reilly's high-profile tribunal victory in January last year.
The former Countryfile presenter parted company with the corporation earlier this month and will launch a support network for women facing discrimination in the workplace next month.
The report, called Serving All Ages and carried out by independent social research institute NatCen, interviewed 180 participants, aged from 13 to 92, as well as industry experts.
It investigated how people felt they were portrayed in relation to their age in the media as a whole, including TV, radio and the internet.
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