For this exercise I bought a physical copy of The Observer dated 27th October 2019. I did consider buying a right leaning newspaper to try and give some political parity, but… would rather have sandpapered my eyeballs instead.
Original headline: Greta Thunberg is old enough to scare the world. Are teens like her really too young to vote?
Alternative anchor: Their future is in our hands. Why not their own?
Relay: Who’s the child in the room?
Original headline: From a ‘great deal’ to a Halloween nightmare: how Johnson’s scare tactics fell apart.
Alternative anchor: Time is running out for the politics of fear…and for Johnson.
Relay: Who really is painting a new political landscape?
Original headline: England stride past All Blacks towards rugby’s greatest prize.
Alternative anchor: Dominant England give fans reasons to cheer.
Relay: How long will the joy last?
The words that are applied to images give meaning in forming a context to frame it in, but this can be so easily altered by reshaping the structure of the wording to give a completely different outcome. Often, syndicated news images are shared among media outlets and these images have differing connotations depending on the political stance of the proprietors. It seems to me that the best way of applying relay is to ask a question in the text as this insures ambiguity and differing interpretations.
Context and Narrative 