The main Sub heading is “All the world must unite to defeat these evil cowards.” This heading is printed in large letters, is bold, underlined, has white letters on a black background and in the centre of the article. The heading is in the centre of the article this is to break up the text and grab people’s attention. The heading is used to give a message, which in this case is everyone, must join together to find out who committed this unprovoked attack. This heading is also exaggerated to creating drama and excitement to stimulate the interest of the reader.
Below the sub heading in a picture of some of the people caught up in the accident. This is eye catching and is reinforcing what is being said in the text. The picture is followed by the caption “Terror victims…. New York workers flee the devastation covered in dust yesterday” This caption is to get a certain response from the reader.
The writer varies the sentence lengths to make short sentences punchy and hard-hitting on the audience. This simple short sentences “They must” is the first sentence of the article after the subheading. Short sentences are to emphasise a certain point. The point for this sentence is really the answer to the sub heading before it. This has a dramatic effect on its audience to unite in the “wake of yesterday’s horrors.” An additional short sentence is “Not after yesterday.” This is due to the amount of lives that were lost and threat of another attack. This is playing on the audience’s emotions.
The writer uses a variety of techniques to help write a powerful article. Emotive language is used to provoke a certain response this can be demonstrated by the phrase “But the world will never be the same again.” This phrase is used to provoke an emotional response from the audience because the towers will never be rebuilt or be the same again. In order to create emotions, The Sun had to be biased and argue their point in order to get a certain emotion, among the audience.
The writer uses the single word “exactly” which is written in Italic writing. This is to emphasise the word and make it stand out from the rest of the paragraph. The word is also to persuade the audience to adopt their point of view.
Bold text stand is used several times throughout the article. Various examples of the bold text are “It is our duty to support them, both morally and – if necessary – practically” and “They must be hunted down and killed.” These quote are both subtitles. These subtitles are bold to catch the reader’s attention and make you want to read more. The bold also makes the text stand out from the rest of the paragraph. Both of these sentences give the read a feeling that if there is a war then we should back America.
A rhetorical question is often asked for effect, this is to get a reader interested in what is happening. “Were his words treated as bravado rather that a dire threat? By asking a question the reader is leaving the answer up to the readers imagination and for them to draw their own opinion. In addition, the writer also uses questions from famous people in order to support their view. By quoting the prime minister the writer helps to support this view and it gets the paper politically involved. Tony Blair quoted, “The terrorists were in human”
Journalists often exaggerate the truth to have a greater impact on the reader. For example “The world will NEVER be the same again.” By exaggerating the story the writer is trying to create a more devastating story. By developing and twisting the story the writer is assuming what has happened, but can’t prove what actually took place. This is called suppression and is created by saying an example of this is “If they had a nuclear bomb, they would use it.” Exaggeration is also being used to influence the reader’s point of view like in the phrase describing the disaster similar to “Armageddon, Death Wish and the Towering Inferno.”
Writers some times use rhyming phrases in order to create phrases or slogans to keep the suspense of the article. Examples of rhyming phrases in the article include “George W. Bush will not shirk from using might in the cause of right.” And “we have won before. We will win again.” By playing on words, using Rhyming phrases and repetition the writer is focusing on a certain point or word. In this case the word is “we” which is at the end of the article to get across the point that “we can win”.
The Language used in the Sun is informative, angry and sad. The language is a key tool in making a newspaper as affective as possible as it keeps the audience interested. A great example of this is the phrase “New York workers flee the devastation of yesterday.” This example of sad language is to provoke angry response from the audience. The language is also dramatic an example of this is “he must be bold”. This is to provoke the response that George Bush must be brave and daring.
At the time of the disaster I was at school so I didn’t find out until I got home. When I saw the pictures on the television I felt a great lose for the families and could not belief something like this could happen, it affects everyone.
The bottom lines of the article are trying to get people to unite and get everyone to “pray for America and for us all.” This powerful phrase is supposed to have a lasting affect on the reader and to influence their opinion. The leading article is a story expressing the newspaper’s point of view they are normally hard hitting, powerful and personnel. Some times they are actually written by the editor and they are much more opinionated than other reports. This type newspaper tries to make up people’s minds for them as it is mainly biased.
