Response to Non-Literary Material
Access to Business and Management
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Response to Non-Literary Material
A Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles
23/04/2012
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Contents
Task 1 (Group Discussion) Task 2 5 Reference & Bibliography 9
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A Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles
This assignment will compare and analyse two different articles from The Sun and The Times. It will focus on the Layout, Audience, Language, Tone, Bias, Interviews, Message, and Personal Preference.
The layout in The Sun is structured and broken up into two parts. The first part catches the audience on the front page, this is due to the headline being in bold, with a picture of the girl that has survived after being wounded and the subtitle underlined underneath. This is all positioned in the bottom right hand corner. It is effective as it stands out and catches the eye of the reader.
The article then continues on page seven where it takes up the whole page to explain in more detail what happened. The same picture is used again, only larger, as its main picture on page seven. This same picture is also used in The Times, but on a smaller scale, and the picture that they use as their main picture, The Sun uses on a smaller scale.
Both articles use the same material but have prioritised the two images differently. The Sun uses the image of the girl in large which with the headline shocks the audience and makes them feel sorry for the girl as she looks like a down to earth young woman. It makes you feel sympathy that this horrific event has happened to her and it shows that it could have happened to anyone. The Times uses the image of the house being tapped off with a police van and officer stood outside, with the headline it shows the audience reading that they have the situation under control, and makes you feel safe that they are there if a situation like
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Response to Non-Literary Material
A Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles
23/04/2012
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Contents
Task 1 (Group Discussion) Task 2 5 Reference & Bibliography 9
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A Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles
This assignment will compare and analyse two different articles from The Sun and The Times. It will focus on the Layout, Audience, Language, Tone, Bias, Interviews, Message, and Personal Preference.
The layout in The Sun is structured and broken up into two parts. The first part catches the audience on the front page, this is due to the headline being in bold, with a picture of the girl that has survived after being wounded and the subtitle underlined underneath. This is all positioned in the bottom right hand corner. It is effective as it stands out and catches the eye of the reader.
The article then continues on page seven where it takes up the whole page to explain in more detail what happened. The same picture is used again, only larger, as its main picture on page seven. This same picture is also used in The Times, but on a smaller scale, and the picture that they use as their main picture, The Sun uses on a smaller scale.
Both articles use the same material but have prioritised the two images differently. The Sun uses the image of the girl in large which with the headline shocks the audience and makes them feel sorry for the girl as she looks like a down to earth young woman. It makes you feel sympathy that this horrific event has happened to her and it shows that it could have happened to anyone. The Times uses the image of the house being tapped off with a police van and officer stood outside, with the headline it shows the audience reading that they have the situation under control, and makes you feel safe that they are there if a situation like
Bibliography: Harding, J., The Times [online]. Available at: http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/do/live/factsAndFigures?newspaperID=20 [26.04.2012]. Mohan, D., ND. The Sun [online]. Available at: http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/do/live/factsAndFigures?newspaperID=17 [26.04.2012]. NMA., ND. Facts & Figures[online]. Available at: http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/do/live/factsAndFigures?newspaperID=19 [10.05.2012].