Text 1. Euro News article 26/08/24
Euro News’ article on Taylor is a piece of media that Swift had no control over, but it represents her in a positive way and as a kind and generous person from the title ‘‘Breathing space’: Taylor Swift food bank donations bring relief to European charities. This article more than anything would help boost her public image as she’s helping local areas near them and will help people being able to eat ‘Rich Jones, chief executive of St Andrew’s Community Network in Liverpool which manages 11 food banks, said the singer’s contribution would fund food donations for a full year.’
The wording of ‘grappling with rising food and housing costs’ almost makes Taylor seem like a hero and as if she’s saving the people from starvation and therefore their lives. Taylor donating also shows her as a caring person as she’s helping people, she’s never going to meat and also shows that she’s grounded and hasn't let the fame get to her head as she’s aware just because she has money doesn’t mean that other people aren’t struggling to afford simple things such as food and water.
The audience would take the preferred reading of she's a kind and charitable person who cares about other people because she's helping people's local communities in the UK especially Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff and London.
Although Taylors charitable donation is a very nice thing for her to do it the oppositional reading of the article could be that people end up thinking that she has too much money and may be donating not out of the kindness out of her heart but for good publicity and people could argue that it's just like pocket change for her and she could do way more although personally I disagree with this. It could also be that she hasn't helped other communities that she didn't tour such as Manchester and therefore people won't like her because of that.
In this article the produces have definitely represented Taylor in a positive way as they don’t talk about anything negative about her and just how she’s helped many people as seen in this quote from the article: 'According to Biggs, the Swift’s donation helped to feed “1,200 people three meals a day, for three days - or 10,800 meals.”
Text 2. Reputation Album Cover 2018
Reputation is Taylor Swifts 6th album. It is a piece of media that she had control over creating and therefore let her choose how to represent herself. The cover represents Swift as mysterious and unbothered as the text that looks like newspaper covers half her face which shows that the headlines and news are going to say one thing about her and she’s the only one who knows the truth and that she’s going to show everyone the truth through the album.
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