AQA GCSE Media Studies Revision Guide - Revised Edition

What have the newspaper’s producers used to anchor the meanings of the headline and photographs in the page from the Daily Mirror below? Identify as many aspects of the layout as you can using specialist terms, then look at page 36 of this book to see if you were right. Knowledge Check 2.1 FRIDAY 05.03.2021 DAILYMIRROR mirror.co.uk 17 DM1ST investment since it arrived in the UK two decades ago is one reason it had paid so little corporation tax. TaxWatch executive director George Turner said: “It is highly questionable whether a tax cut for Amazon today is the best use of public money.” Amazon has not said how many jobs the new stores venture will create in the UK. But it has previously spoken about the large numbers of workers it had taken on in its fulfilment centres, research and development. The company said it has also launched a By Amazon range of hundreds of own- brand products for the stores. graham.hiscott@mirror.co.uk @Grahamhiscott VOICE OF THE MIRROR: PAGE 8 Morrisons and northern chain Booths were among those he mentioned. Last year Amazon, which already owns the small Whole Food Markets chain, saw its UK sales surge 51% to £19.4billion. It came as experts at campaigners TaxWatch predicted a measure in the Budget could wipe out Amazon’s UK corporation tax bil l . Chancel lor Rishi Sunak increased the tax to 25% from 2023 but included a “super deduction” for companies when they invest. Firms can offset the tax break against profits. Amazon has argued that heavy with some already testing till-less stores. Clive Black, an analyst at Shore Capital , warned it would have a huge impact on jobs if others follow suit. He said: “This is a cashless and cardless operation so think of all the people that affects, not just in stores but in banks too. “It is absolutely going to lead to a considerable reduction in roles for people at head office and in branches.” Mr Black predicted that rather than open hundreds of new Amazon Fresh stores, the huge company may snap up an existing supermarket chain instead. BY GRAHAMHISCOTT Head of Business Amazon ‘no till’ shops will be threat to jobs AMAZON’S new hi-tech, till-free supermarkets could cause “consid- erable” job losses if rivals copy the idea, warns a financial analyst. The online giant’s first Amazon Fresh store outside the US opened yesterday in Ealing, West London. Customers scan a quick response code as they enter the shop then put items in their bag. A network of cameras and sensors detect what they have picked. Shoppers simply walk out with their purchases which are then charged to their account. Amazon’s Matt Birch said it offered a “super fast, friction-free way to shop”. Rival supermarkets will watch it closely, Cashless & cardless, think of all those it will affect CLIVE BLACK WARNS OF IMPACT ON JOBS Warning hi-tech storemay have knock-on effect EASE List for customers FRESH AISLES New shop opens in Ealing ATTRACTION Customer exits with shopping CLASH Alastair Campbell Campbell in scufflewith littergoon ALASTAIR Campbell was attacked by a driver he confronted for throwing litter in the street. The former Labour spin doctor revealed the clash on his podcast Football, Feminism and Everything In Between. He said a “guy chucked paper, sweet packets and fag packets” out of a car. When he confronted him the man “squared up”. Campbell, 63, went into a shop but on leaving it saw the man back in his car. He said: “I chucked his litter on his lap. He tried to push me, hit me on the back, and kicked the bike.” A shopkeeper intervened and Campbell later saw his neighbour Michael Palin in Camden, North London, who told him: “You did the right and wrong thing.” BY OLLIE BUCKLEY Labourhero Standies, 91 LABOUR Party legend Stan Newens has died at 91. As a boy in the East End he lived through the polit- ical turmoil of the 1930s. He refused national service and was sent to work as a miner. Bill Rammell, who later succeeded him as MP for Harlow in Essex, said: “Stanwas a superbMP and was widely respected across party lines.” 22 AQA GCSE Media Studies Revision Guide Copyright: Sample material