Daily Mail #3

Supermarket owners plead to an end of Panic-buying

Date Accessed: 15/03/2020

•  This story is a soft news story covering the hysteria of the coronavirus in the UK and how some supermarkets have been forced to ration amid panic buyers stockpiling basic necessities. Over 1/3 of shoppers admitted to stockpiling and it has become a cause for concern surrounding supermarket owners as they simply do not have the stock. 
•  This story offers familiarity [Galtung and Ruge] as it has been covered heavily over the last few weeks, it also offers surveillance [Blumler and Katz] as it notifies the public on the current resource crisis caused by hysteria. 
• It is a conventional story, as it has an underlying right wing narrative as it says this crisis is high on Boris Johnson's agenda for combatting the impacts of COVID19 however the lack of coverage on Boris Johnson's silence as situations have gotten worse solidify the lack of impartiality when it comes to government control over issues such as this.