Analysis of Newspaper Reports

Analysis of Newspaper Reports

For this story, the Daily Telegraph uses the headline "Girl frozen

alive on her own doorstep," this is just stating the facts. This is

common in broadsheets; they do not tend to sensationalise stories like

tabloids do, just state the facts.

The Daily mail uses the headline "The Ice Girl who came back from the

dead." This uses intertextuality. 'The ice girl' has been altered from

'the ice maiden,' a well-known phrase. The rest of the headline is

taken from the title of a well-known book "The Spy Who Came In From

The Cold."

This gives the story an interesting title and makes you wonder what it

is actually a story relating to.

The Sun, a well-known tabloid, uses the extremely relaxed and informal

headline "Ice-Block Kid." This is in the usual relaxed style of The

Sun as it has a more relaxed and informal relationship with the

readers. It then has a subheading going into a bit more detail than

the headline; this is to make potential readers be interested in the

story as they actually know what it is about. It also tells you that

it is a human-interest story, which interest most people and will then

lure you (the readers) in.

The very formal way that the Daily Telegraph's report is written

suggests a very formal relationship with the reader. It is much more

informative than the other two, rather than sensationalising the story

the facts are just plainly stated. Aside from that, the story is still

set out in such a way as to be interesting.

The Daily Mail is not as formal as the Daily Telegraph but not as

informal and chatty as The Sun. It states the facts but occasionally

sensationalises the story. The story is informative without being too

formal so will appeal to many different types of readers.

The Sun has a very chatty, informal relationship with the readers. The

story is very sensationalised as is typical in a tabloid. There is a

lot of emotive language used and a lot of direct speech.