Newspaper Comparison- ‘The Independent’ and ‘The Sun’

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Dianne Lai 28th September 2001

Unit 1: Non-fiction writing to inform, explain and describe

Newspaper Comparison- 'The Independent' and 'The Sun'

The purpose to this comparative analysis is to show and study the difference in language and the way it is used to entertain or inform different readership. The Sun puts forward the information in a tabloid and The Independent in the form of a broadsheet. The Sun seems to be in the entertainment business whereas The Independent is in the information business. It depends on whether the reader wants to know the straight- forward facts or just gossip. The Sun gives us a human- interest account and The Independent gives us a factual one.
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The first contrasting difference is in the titles. The Sun produces two titles and The Independent produces one. The Sun's main title is approximately a half of the whole article and The Independent's is about one fifth. The Sun has bigger, bolder font in the first title and it is all in capitals, whereas The Independent is in the lower case of the alphabet and is in smaller, plainer font. The Sun uses a pun derived from the English idiom, Hammer and Tongs, instead of Hammer it uses Slammer, which is the colloquial term for a jail. This ...

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