The Big Issue- essay
How does the Big Issue cover you have studied use media language to construct an alternative representation of an event/group/issue? (10 marks) ‘The Big Issue’ is a hybrid magazine sold by homeless people in exchange for money,as The Big Issue magazines are bought by the vendors for £1.25 each and sell them to their customers at £2.50. The audience for ‘The Big Issue’ are predominantly women, the Big Issue reader is more likely to be a high income earner (48%), a professional or manager (34%), have a university degree or diploma (66%) and (61%) of their readers are aged between 18 and 39. The Big Issues circulation figures are of 27,000 per issues and readership of 241,000. The Big Issue could be seen as a campaigning tool against so...