How does the big issue use intertextuality in this cover
The Big Issue magazine makes itself seen as niche and providing a critical view outside mainstream journalism. Intertextuality refers to the process of creating references to any kind of media text through another text. There is some intertextuality used within this cover, for example: Putin on the eagle, there is a famous image of Putin on a bear shirtless and the big issue has used this and put him on a eagle. A reason why the big issue has used a intertextual approach is because, it is reporting outside mainstream journalism and is referencing what is happening in the world right now. As you can see it is referencing to Trump being elected as president, you can tell by this due to the person running from the White House showing that they do not want Trump to be president. Another reference is that Trumps head is quite big, which shows the amount of power that he has over the entire world, since cultured people should know that America is ranked number 1 in terms of mili...