This was to be the day in the media world, that no-longer David Beckham took the front page of the Sun, for all these daily stories were forgotten, from front page to back were riddled with devastating images and stories of those terrorised and injured throughout this devastating affair.
On an average day tabloids pages were filled with national news and celebrity gossip but for these few days only they widened there views and filled their pages with world news all about the conflict between the United States of America and Afghanistan.
Whilst broadsheets in England have always printed world news on their pages they also changed for this week not like tabloids though they included larger pictures and more emotional language veering away from their usual cold heartless image.
Although on September the 11th newspapers in England made a dramatic change there was still a large difference between the Broadsheet and the tabloid.
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Language was still very different, broadsheets kept their more complex language, whilst tabloids stayed with their simple but dramatic such as this front page headline took from the Sun on the 11th of September “The Day That Changed The World”.
Tabloids such as the Sun also included personal stories like the “body rained from the sky” article which speaks of personal experience during the disaster, unlike broadsheets which only wrote about hard facts.
Once again tabloids included thoughts of opinion as found in the sun “It would work something like this” this was taken from an article explaining the affects on the financial properties.
Broadsheets spoke about financial problems frequently during their pages which made a change from a tabloids emotional point of view.
Broadsheets seem to use a lot more factual and use more intricate language like “through this deathscape” broadsheets also seem overly descriptive especially when describing dates, times and measurements, “Geoff delesseps was on the telephone at 8:45 am talking to his wife from his office on the 80th floor of the northern towers of the world trade centre” this out take from the guardian on September the 12th shows the complexity of a broadsheet newspaper.
You may ask yourself out of the population of adults what percentage read a newspaper and which one. Well a shameful 56% of adults read a newspaper on a daily basis, and a staggering 21% of these read the sun, making this the most popular newspaper by far. It seems from the evidence I have, tabloid newspapers are far more popular than the less commercial and celebrity based broadsheet, as only 2.3% of the newspaper readers read the Guardian.
Altogether on an every day basis the Sun newspaper doesn’t usually contain world news, it is a national newspaper and prints national news. It is highly celebrity involved and uses basic but sensational language. It also contains a lot more sport involvement which is usually celebrity based rather than statistics and league tables.
However, the guardian usually contains national and world news mostly political and financial, the Guardian does not contain much sport and the only sport it does contain is very simple including facts and league tables absolutely no celebrity involvement.
Therefore, on September 11th these two genre’s of newspapers changed in two very different ways maybe the tabloid shifting in a more dramatic way.
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