on 30th August 1998).
In The Sunday Times (ST), there is no picture of the article on Noye, the
headline is easy enough to read (size), but the article is harder because it is
smaller, the sentences are longer and the language used is more complex.
In the News of the World (NW), the front page is totally focused on the
article of Noye’s arrest. There is a picture on the front page of Noyes being
caught which takes up at least half of the page. The headline takes up about
a fifth of the page, and at the bottom of the page there is a
mini-headline which informs the reader the
“FULL AMAZING STORY INSIDE” .
In NW, there is much more informal and descriptive language so that the
article may be easier to read. In ST there is mostly formal and less
descriptive language, stating the actual facts of the story.
The headline in ST goes as follows:
“Road rage suspect Noye is arrested”. This is displaying the
correct truth of the story.
The headline in NW goes as follows:
“Fugitive Ken Noye shackled at last”. This headline leads on to be
quite the informal language that readers should expect from tabloids.
In the present day we have two main different types of writing newspapers.
One is called a Tabloid and the other, a Broadsheet. There are several
differences between these different styles of writing.
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Broadsheet newspapers such as The Sunday Times has plenty of sections
in it and usually has a tendency to display the actual fact of a story, and so is
designed to be fitting an audience who would want to read the truth about a
particular account.
Tabloid newspapers such as The Star, which has seven subdivisions such as
sport, news and woman magazine. Sometimes tabloids ‘twist’ news stories
around to make them more rumourous and so to make the newspaper more
appealing to people who want to read rumours and gossip.
Tabloids are much easier to read than Broadsheets because tabloids are liable
to write shorter sentences, shorter paragraphs, and use less formal and so
slang and in less detail.
These newspapers are targeted to a younger generation of people who would
maybe like to read without as much effort to try and understand the difficult
and formal language of a broadsheet for instance: The Daily Telegraph, and
for people who just want a basic outline of the local news for a smaller
amount of money.
Tabloids use bigger fonts to fill up space and for ‘easier reading’.
Broadsheets use more formal language when, at the same time, tabloids use a
form of lesser formal language, for instance: slang. The tone of an article of a
tabloid is therefore easier for the audience to empathise and sympathise with
the people or characters in their articles.
In this section, I will be using the reference of an article which was written by
a broadsheet newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, and a tabloid newspaper,
News of the World. On The Daily Telegraph’s front page, about one fifth of
the page is taken up by the first part of the story (which carries on inside the
newspaper) and on the News of the World’s front page, half of the page is of
a picture describing the main event, the headline (which takes up a quarter of
the page) and the contents. The daily Telegraph’s headline is only about one
square inch, if not that, then less.
The information which I have relayed above shows that their are many
differences between the layout, settings, structure and language of Tabloids
and Broadsheets.
