Critical analysis of journalist's work.

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Critical analysis of journalist's work.

The two pieces of journalism chosen for this analysis are Jeremy Clarkson's report on a short visit to Iraq 18 months on from the supposed end of the war there in 2003, and John Pilger's article concerning his arrival in, and initial experience of, Saigon during the Vietnam war in 1966. These two reports, and reporters, make a handy comparison.

Although Jeremy Clarkson is viewed principally as motoring journalist he has the ability to adapt his journalistic skills to a range of subjects, some far removed from cars. For his motoring column in the Sunday Times Clarkson's style is humorous bordering on sarcasm, which works well and this style translates well to the subject of the controversial war in Iraq. The Sunday Times is a quality broadsheet newspaper aimed at the upper end of Britain's readership and is a market leader with an average Sunday sale of 1,395,046 copies, which represents a 50.58% share of this area of the market. Clarkson, being an out and out Conservative, is immediately identifiable with the readership of the Sunday Times, and his 'overgrown schoolboy' approach presents as a welcome relief amongst the principally serious editorials of