Comparing two newspaper articles

I chose to compare one article from The Sun and one from The Times, both subjected on Prince Harry’s racial slur on one of his Asian colleague.

My first newspaper article is a tabloid dated January 11th 2009 and published by The Sun, which contains one page of the article first of which is the title page portraying at centre of the title page a picture of disgraced Harry who was forced to apologise today after video footage, obtained by The Sun showed him calling one of his Asian friend of his platoon “our little Paki friend”. This page of the article uses effective headline as it relates to problem that most people can relate to racism also this suggest that perhaps this article is for adults who are interested in to day-to-day affairs of concerned about the racism as it uses emotive words that focuses with information relevant to the offence of many Asians in Britain. The second part of this article concludes from the title page and focuses in-depth of opinions and facts from the writers as well as the reaction from Mr. Cameron who was the first politician to comment on this case saying that Harry’ s behaviour completely unacceptable and it is right that he has apologised. Mr. Cameron added: ‘He needs to understand that this is not acceptable, especially in light of the office that he is going to hold in the Army and as a member of the Royal Family. ’Secondly this part of the article consist of the exact quotations of what exactly Harry said that led to the scandal.

The second article published by The Times, which is a broadsheet ,dated on the 11th of January 2009 only consists of one page for Prince Harry this suggests that the broadsheet believes that its readers are not as much interested on this matter as the readers of the The Sun. The Times has one main title which states ‘Muslim leader condemns Prince Harry for 'paki' remark’ this suggests that the broadsheet is interested how this affected the Asians in Britain as well as put an emphasis on his behaviour in the aspect of the Royal Family.

The differences between the two newspaper is that firstly the tabloids (The Sun) although it does include some facts mainly has lots of gossips about what Harry did and why he did, as well as  has short articles and lots of pictures and shorter pages then the broadsheet. Secondly the broadsheet is only interested in the facts and unlike the tabloids does not consist of many pictures or emotional language. The broadsheet has long and sometimes complex sentences therefore I would expect the main focus for broadsheet is to interest people who like facts and are interested in the truth rather than just a gossip. For the tabloids I would think that it is interested in pictures, short sentences and interesting stories this would suggest that tabloids would interest the younger adult population by using such methods as gossips and sex scandals.