Double Page spread

• ML - Its busy and eye catching by incorporating a rage of different newspaper features including the editorial, letters, personal direct quotations, a cartoon and large images as well as the central story
• ML- Relatively unusual to have multiple features on the same page, suggesting the importance of the stories
• ML- Headline is large and emotive, echoing the font-page headline with repetition of the word 'shame' -> conveying the value and beliefs of the paper and thier opinions of the event
• ML- Branding of the newspaper continues by using the colour red form the masthead and subheading of Starmer's name -> connoting their political allegiance to the Labour Party
• ML- Tone is supported using direct quotations from ordinary people telling their own tragic stories of COVID -19
• ML- Pull quotes is emphasised by using large quote marks and using language that conveys the feelings of the paper
• ML- The central images are emotive and dramatic, as there is juxta positioning the scene from the hospital ward with the image of Boris holding a champagne glass

  -> Baudrillard - we don't know if the image is really from COVID, may be dramatised
• ML- The language used across the double page belittles the government and their actions
• ML- Binary opposites are used to reinforce the point of belittling the government

  -> 'quite dignity' vs 'lying bombast'
• R- The newspaper has mage decisions regarding how the story will be mediated and what the focus will be

  ->Focuses on the representation of different responses to the 'Party gate' scandal -> constructed through negative representation of the government and PM
• R- The use of direct quotations and the inclusion of individual stories and representation of ordinary people, personalises the story by making it about the experiences of individuals
• R- Inclusion of the open letter from Keir Starmer 'Dear Mirror Readers' has a personal tone and reinforces the values and beliefs of the newspaper