Interest stories about – pop stars, footballers, government/royal family scandal.
The similarities that the stories have are the remembrance of Armistice Day (end of war) and also people who died and were who were wounded in Iraq. To show this there is one poppy on each newspaper near the title.
The kinds of stories in the newspapers are topical at that time. The story about Charles and his sexual behaviour, in “The Sun” the story begins on the front page but encourages readers to look inside the paper by putting most of the story on pages five and six. “The Times” also covers the story, which shows its importance.
The layout in both the newspapers is similar. They both have a masthead and the masthead and the news headlines are both bold and huge. But the broadsheet has smaller bold headlines. They both have dateline and earpiece, where on the right hand corner there is advertisements. They both have splash headlines and there is a box rule around the text. They have other stories in the front cover. Both papers use a bit of colour and graphics. There is a 4 colour picture in each of the newspapers. The times are a more tourist newspaper.
They have used differently types of fonts for each newspaper, to attract the reader attention.
Broadsheet headlines still try to be punchy and to the point though in a more moderate way than the tabloids. All of the newspapers use alliteration (example), but the tabloid uses more extreme language. You can see in “The Sun”, that there is limited space. The headline says “royals in torment.” It refers to famous people in a familiar way. “Torment” is very emotive. The other headline “Charles – moment of truth” is a cliché – everyone understands that this means Charles has to make a decision, it carries on by using words like “grim faced”, “crisis”, “agonise”. It appears on the surface. The tabloid is trying to be sympathetic.
The words in the headline emphasises his loneliness. The broadsheet headline says “Charles gathers family around him”. This is more opinion than fact. The emphasis is that he the support of his family. The fact from the tabloid newspaper is, “Charles flew in to London last night” and there was an opinion which was like a fact which was, “He was thinking of whether to sue the following claims about him being in a compromising situation with a servant.” The two opinions are “this is the biggest crisis of his life”. “Biggest” shows exaggeration. The second opinion was “He was once asked if he was bio sexual”.
The two facts in the broadsheet are that the newspaper that printed the first copies was, the Scottish newspaper and Charles denies the rumours. The opinion is that the “prince ignored response who asked if he was looking forward to returning to Britain.”
The tabloid uses words which are selected to spark an emotional response in the person reading the story. The tabloid is emotional and sensational. But broadsheets are more biased, but not so openly.
I generally prefer to read the tabloids, because I am interested in human interest stories. I am interested in politics but to a certain extent, which means only when I feel like it. I do not really like long, detailed stories. Therefore I would recommend tabloids.
