A Comparison of two newspaper responses to the aftermath of September the eleventh.

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Lucy Emily Murphy

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A Comparison of two newspaper responses to the aftermath of September the eleventh.

September the 11th is a date that will stick in our minds forever. The media response to the attacks was uncontainable and the news of the attacks spread around the world in a matter of minutes. After the attacks George Bush started to suggest attacking Afghanistan, and he started preparing the allied forces. The media started responding with headlines describing the attacks as an ‘Apocolypse’ and also using words like ‘evil.’ The attacks triggered a response that had had never been seen before in mankind. I will examine two approaches to the attacking of Afghanistan I will compare the articles “Americans want action. And they’re right” written by Harold Evans and the article “How can the U.S bomb this tragic people” by Robert Fisk.

In the headline “Americans want action. And they’re right”, Harold Evans is suggesting that it is morally correct to bomb the Afghanistan’s and that it should be done because of the attacks on New York city. Harold Evans is personally argues for the attacks on Afghanistan and he quotes that 90% of the American population are. Evans is sticking to his belief on behalf of America. The headline is in two short intent statements making people in a way afraid to disagree with him. He suggests “And they’re right” in a clear forceful way making you believe there is no other way to deal with the Afghans.

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In the headline “How can America bomb this tragic people” Robert Fisk is using his headline with a rhetorical question stating that it wasn’t all of the people of Afghanistan it was a small minority of them. Fisk uses the phrase “tragic people” in order to make you feel sorry for the country as he believes that most of the Afghans haven’t done anything wrong. He writes the headline in order to get America to change their minds about bombing Afghanistan by writing this to bring out their emotions.

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