The Sun, 22 March 2025 (2028 exams) — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
The Sun, 22 March 2025 (2028 exams)
Newspaper front pages
What you need to know
The Sun's front page of 22 March 2025 on the fire at an electrical substation that closed Heathrow Airport, with a headline that puns on the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers, and a secondary story about the presenter Kym Marsh.
Media language: tabloid conventions, the pun and its intertextual reference, the main image and bullet-point summaries, and colour and layout.
Representation: how the page represents the disruption, the people affected and the government, and how the secondary story represents age and celebrity.
Contexts: the paper's right-leaning politics and its criticism of the Labour government over national infrastructure; why a 1970s sitcom still makes a shared reference for readers of different ages.
Set for exams from 2028, replacing The Sun of 1 January 2021.
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.
