The Sun, 1 January 2021 (2027 exams) — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
The Sun, 1 January 2021 (2027 exams)
Newspaper front pages
What you need to know
The Sun's front page of 1 January 2021 on the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, with an edited image of Big Ben including a syringe and a headline calling on readers to join a campaign.
Media language: tabloid front-page conventions, the edited image and what it connotes, the headline's language and mode of address, and colour and layout.
Representation: how the page represents the nation, the pandemic and the vaccine programme, and its patriotic tone.
Contexts: the pandemic at the turn of 2021; The Sun's ownership by News UK, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, and its right-leaning politics.
Set for exams in 2027 only: for exams in 2028 it is replaced by The Sun of 22 March 2025. This front page belongs to Section A; Section B answers on The Sun don't analyse it.
In the exam a copy of the product is provided, and it can be set for Question 1 (media language, 15 marks), for Question 2(a) (contexts, 5 marks) or for Question 2(b), where it is compared with an unseen product in the same form (representation, 25 marks).
Describe the front page precisely in your own words, quoting no more than a few words of its text.
