Comparing Two Newspaper Articles

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Comparing Two Newspaper Articles

I'll be Comparing the front page story of two newspapers. One is from

a tabloid newspaper as the other is from a broadsheet. I'll put across

the diverse techniques that tabloids and broadsheets portray in their

front page story. Newspaper media is designated to notify, and aim an

interest to there audience. 'The Sun', 'The Express' 'The Daily Mail',

and 'The Mirror' are all examples of tabloid newspapers. Tabloids

mostly always have various feelings towards the media. 'The Times',

'The Independent', 'The Guardian', and 'The Daily Telegraph' are all

examples of a broadsheet newspaper. Broadsheets newspapers have a

reputation of being more of a specialized outlook to how they present

there stories as in language and layout of the story.

I comparing the front page stories of the 'The Independent' and 'The

Daily Mail'. Both of the newspapers have the front page story about

Sir Mark Thatcher the man who has been charge 'with helping to finance

a mercenary plot to topple the head of an oil-rich African state' and

now faces 15 years of jail. Both newspapers have an image Sir Mark

Thatcher being escorted from his home into a police car in South

Africa. Both newspapers have different layouts of the story as they

need to be eye catching in order to gain the public interest and in

order to sell. 'The Daily Mail' has used the image of Sir Mark

Thatcher and the head line of 'HE FACES 15 YEARS IN JAIL' to take up

more than 34 of the page. This type of layout is to be eye-catching

as the large picture and the large bold capitalized text wouldn't make

this news paper hard to miss.

The head line of 'HE FACES 15 YEARS IN JAIL' makes it seems that as if

some one was saying to you. The large text and bold letter makes it

seem like if it was meant to be said stridently.

In comparison to 'The Daily Mail', 'The Independent' uses a layout

that is not as eye-catching as the 'Daily Mail' but give a more

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