Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Satire
Mock the Week
Alison Jackson
I started looking at Alison Jackson's work for the fanatic project (as she has done a lot of photographs of Royal satire) but I feel it would be relevant to look at her work for this project too. Photojournalism is a very influential part of the news and I love the fact that Jackson has turned this completely on it's head, by taking embarrassing (and hilarious) photos of politicians that could easily be real. I remember seeing the photo of Peter Mandelson making up Nick Clegg on the front cover of a newspaper magazine and being really intrigued by it, thinking "this can't be real?!" I love Alison Jackson's work because it so cleverly and effectively questions the trust we put in what we read in newspapers, and how we assume everything we read must be true.
This idea is something I've been exploring in my FMP - I'm really interested in how much influence the Evening Standard can have as a free paper and whether a free paper should really have that much power. On the Standard's website they say, "The power of the paper to influence the Political community should not be underestimated," which I find quite a daunting idea; there is a lot of speculation that the Evening Standard did in fact help lead Boris Johnson to victory over Ken Livingstone in the mayoral election of 2008. So, I've started to think about how I could explore this in my work - the above image is one idea I've come up with - to create a satirical version of the paper called the Evening Boris.
A couple of other interesting videos about the newspaper
"Another swipe at Ken Livingstone, because I know they don't like him, anymore than they like Lee Jasper"
"Newspaper designed to fill you with fear"
"Pure propaganda"
Free Evening Standard changing readers habits
Reasons given for reading the Evening Standard:
- (majority) because it's free
- good for covering stories about London
- up to date about London
- sometimes have free offers
- good to read travelling home
Reasons given for not reading the Evening Standard:
- disagrees with the politics of it
- thinks it's crap, wouldn't ever read it
- doesn't work enough in London
- not suited to interests
- no point getting it when you had to pay for it as there were two other free papers
Other comments:
- Thinks it's poor but got it free where he worked
- doesn't want to pick one up, would take one if handed one
- thought 50p was too much to pay and is surprised that it's now free
Sunday, 27 February 2011
News Articles about the Evening Standard
Evening Standard sold to Russian oligarch
Lebedev's London Evening Standard takeover confirmed
A bright future for your Evening Standard
The London Evening Standard to go FREE
Will making the Standard free pay off?
The Evening Standard, the great survivor, stands on the brink
Finding a copy of your free Evening Standard
How much for a 'free' London Evening Standard? 50p in some shops
Evening Standard almost in profit after going free
Lebedev's London Evening Standard takeover confirmed
A bright future for your Evening Standard
The London Evening Standard to go FREE
Will making the Standard free pay off?
The Evening Standard, the great survivor, stands on the brink
Finding a copy of your free Evening Standard
How much for a 'free' London Evening Standard? 50p in some shops
Evening Standard almost in profit after going free
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