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Otto Hahn Gymnasium Monheim am Rhein

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Analysing two different newspaper articles

 

Task: analysing and comparing the two different given newspaper articles.

 

Firstly, it is important to take a closer look at the structure of the two different articles and also the fonts that are used for the texts.

As it can be seen on the left article, the headline is written in a very modern font. The headline itself is written fat in black. The subheading is also written fat, but smaller than the actual headline. The text is structured into three main parts: the first part directly starts right in the middle of the topic and with the prime suspect in the investigations, Levi Bellfield. The second paragraph deals with the background information and why the case is so highly debated for a second time. The last paragraph shortly explains the top reasons for the explanations given in the first paragraph. So the article is definitely built up in a provocative way with big headlines trying to grab the reader’s attention and paragraphs that are not logically built up onto other ones. So this article has a very easy layout which allows the reader not having to read the whole article, just the important and provocative facts which are given in the first paragraph. Compared with the other article, one can see that this one is structured in a completely different way to the article on the left. The headline is written in an older font and not that big. So the headline is very unpretentious and comes along nicely. This article is also built up on to three paragraphs. The first one briefly explains what happened so that the topic is once more in the newspapers. It is a neutral introduction which gives the reader basic knowledge about the topic which is needed for the following paragraphs. Following on, the second paragraph is a typical news item. It deals with all the more detailed stuff which is needed to localize the happenings and to bring them into account with the headline. Lastly, the third paragraph explains all the background information about the case of Amanda “Milly” Dowler and its circumstances and why the case is such a complicated one. As a result, one can say that the right article is definitely more neutral than the left one. The headline is not that influencing, it simply deals with the actual incidents. The whole text is built up logically and the reader tends to read the whole article in order to get all the detailed and fact-based information concerning the investigation.

 

Now, it is important to take a closer look at the style of language that is used in the two newspaper articles to round off the analysing result concerning the different newspaper styles.

So, it is firstly to start off with the headlines. As written before, the headline of the left article is completely biased. It is very attention-grabbing, because it provokes a direct reaction from the reader. Words as <<Killer>> and <<murder>> (headline) are very biased and tend to a biased or hasty opinion by the reader. Differences are on the other heading. The choice of words here is much more neutral and briefly explains to the reader the newest results of investigation which are presented later on in the text. Words like <<police search>> and <<missing>> (headline) come along nicely due to the fact that they are neutral and fact-based, outgoing it is to be noted that those different types of provocative and objective writing are distributed throughout the whole texts. The left article goes on with very biased language and hasty allegations: <<HAMMER Monster>> (l.1), <<The serial killer>> (l.4), <<Legal sources say>> (l.9). As one can see, the author Mike Sullivan tries to grab as much attention as possible from the reader in the early parts of the text as he directly attacks the prime suspect to be the killer of this young girl instead of mincing words. This is also supported by the use of different picture in the text. The picture at the top of the article shows the prime suspect Levi Bellfield, which seems to look down a little bit. Underneath, there is a picture of Amanda Dowler smiling into the camera. Taking these two pictures into account, one can see that the text is clearly about the offender instead of the victim. It looks like Milly is really inferior to the prime suspect or, as it is mentioned in the text, the “killer” (l.4). The whole text is biased and only sets a focus on the first part of the text so that the reader is confronted with the topic and starts thinking about it as the author just wants: negatively! However, the right text shows a completely different style of writing a newspaper article. Everything is written in a very neutral style which addresses readers who have time to get a closer and more detailed look at the happenings: <<Police search>> (headline), <<provide the evidence>> (l.9), <<was reported stolen>>. As one can see by looking at those quotations, the author really wants to report in a neutral way so that the reader has the time to built up an own opinion of what is going there. The picture used here is also only just the face of Amanda Dowler. This picture is also not that biased and refers to the text at the most important person in the text: Milly herself! The text is structured very well and wants to give the reader as much connected information as possible, concerning Milly Dowler and the circumstances of her disappearance.

Taking everything into account, one can see that there are huge differences between the two different article types, even if they deal with quite the same topic. The left article is clearly a tabloid article, because it is an argumentative text which only sets a focus at giving provocative information to reach certain social classes. As a counter example, the right article gives the reader much more fact-based information which is built-up logically and refers to the victim and not to the offender.


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