A Comparison of Three Newspapers
In this investigation I am going to compare and analyse three
newspapers to see how readable the three newspapers are. I will be
using The Times in tabloid sheet format although the articles are
still the same, The Journal local paper and a The Daily Mirror the
tabloid newspaper.
I will be investigating several factors to represent the readability
of the three comparative newspapers. I will therefore need to use
mathematical methods to show my collected data in a clear and precise
way. Thus the mathematical methods will help me conclude my
investigation and aid me in making a decision based on the data I will
be collecting.
I will be comparing the cost of newspapers, the cost of newspapers in
relation to the number of pages, the distribution of the 3 newspapers
FrontPages, word length based on a sample of 100 words, sentence
length and the distribution of the articles throughout the papers.
Hopefully I will get a clear picture of what the outcome is from the
difference and similarities in each of the papers.
I will collect the information separately then provide an analysis
once I have clearly shown my data once my investigation is complete. I
expect The Times will have the longest mean length of word and the
sentence length and The Daily Mirror to have the shortest mean length
of word and the shortest sentence length.
I think that The Times will have more political articles than any of
the other papers whereas The Journal will have more sport articles and
The Daily Mirror will have more celebrity and entertainment news...
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... This could be because of the Journal might concentrate more on sport.
I only did the word length of the political strand because of time
constraints if I was to further the investigation more I would go
deeper into politics and do a deep analysis on politics and a deep
analysis on general news. I would also use a much broader range of
newspapers from local newspapers from around the country to see if the
news supports what the level of intelligence is seen by in that
particular area.
I expected the data to be a lot more pronounced in the political word
count to show a bigger difference between newspapers this was correct
as the Times did seem to use a lot more sophisticated words. But the
comparison between the Daily Mirror and The Journal was unexpected but
the journal concentrates on sport rather than politics.
lots of text, so this is another vital area of study. I will also look
In this regard, it is notable that News Corp Australia and Fairfax titles are, on average, read each week by around ‘60 per cent and 36 per cent respectively of the newspaper reading public in Australia’ (McKnight 2012). Fairfax publishes some of the country’s most influential newspapers, including The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and The Age.
· The sizes , number of pages , area of print and cost of different
The other type of newspaper is Broadsheet such as ‘The Guardian’, ‘The Times’ and ‘The Daily Telegraph’. Broadsheets tend to be more formal and proper in the way they set out there reports. I am going to compare this article from four types of newspaper, two from the tabloid and two from the broadsheet. The articles are from ‘The Sun’ and the ‘Daily Mail’ as the tabloids and ‘The Independent’ and the ‘Daily Telegraph’ as the broadsheets. I am going to convey the different techniques that tabloids and broadsheets use in reports.
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In the Sun the article is laid over two pages: the front page and the
Print Media: Choosing Sensationalism Over Accuracy? There are so many universal subjects in this world, but there is one that everybody can relate to: the prospect of finding love with someone. With the media being a great influence on what society believes to be true, many of the popular gender-based media are choosing sensationalism over accuracy to get the attention of potential readers. Almost all of these magazines have articles about dating and marriage, spouting out inaccurate information and non-professional advice to impressionable readers.
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Newspapers: this is an old type of media that informs us of the news that is happening in the world around us. It is a document that is issued daily c...
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