The Sun describes their feeling towards the IRA as “horrific” and “Terror chief”. Terror chief means chief or captain of causing horror for innocent people. These suggest that the IRA is only unimportant chief who just cause terror and disruption whereever they go. In other words, they are evil and unmoral people. The exaggeration makes the article seem more like a tragic story instead of a factual article. This is a method to keep the reader reading in order to find out what will happen. The Sun newspaper is open towards their opinions and feelings, shown from “terror chief”. Therefore I consider the Sun as a bias newspaper. Every bad aspect that the IRA caused had are distorted and emphasized such as “devastation by the IRA” and “horrific”. The Sun uses a lot of capital letters, Italic etc…. to make tragic parts stand out. It also don’t uses quotation, which I found essential for a newspaper to have.
The “Daily Star” headline begins with “Scum”. “Scum” is a very dramatic and expressive headline to begin with, which immediately catches the audiences their attention. “Scum” is defining rubbish or people who are worthless. This use of psychology is effective because it makes the audiences to react, i.e.: feeling out rage. For some people they would naturally become out rage and this is called psychology. This shows that this is a bias because it expresses how they feel. The sub headline is “150 hurt as blast rips through railway station”. This is dramatic. “Blast-rips” are words that are similar to an action movie. This gives an exciting mood that make the reader interested with it.
Daily Star said that the bomb went off at “7.00pm”, while the Sun said “7.01pm”. The contradiction between the facts information by the Sun and the Daily Star, suggest that newspapers are not reliable and accurate. Which one of these newspapers has the true fact? . Therefore it reveals that not all newspaper have reliable and accurate facts and sources.
The Daily Star is a very expressive towards how they feel for the IRA and they uses impulsive and strong words such as “cowards” and “evil terrorist” to describe the IRA. These words portray that the IRA are unpleasant, heartless, evil and nonnegotiable people who just want to cause trouble. The purpose of expressing their idea in such a strong language is to convince and influent the reader to criticise and hate the IRA as they do too. Again it is obvious that this I a bias newspaper.
The Daily Star begins to emphasize about five years old little girl who suffered facial injuries as the consequence of the IRA bombing. It tries to stress out that a little girl’s beauty is ruin. This makes the IRA seems heartless and evil for what they had done which it drives the audience crazy especially Londoners. Terry Walker, who works near by Canary Wharf said, “The Whole of front of three South Quay buildings are out of this station is wrecked”. This newspaper is not formal because unimportant people was quoted and yet it even might be made up, therefore the Daily Star is not reliable and reinsuring. The Daily Star is a bias newspaper because it is over expressive with their opinions and it is a distorted newspaper.
The “Independent” headline line is “ The cease-fire is over: IRA bomber blast London”. The headlines uses alliterative language, “bomber blast”, in order to catches the audience attention. Again, just as the other newspaper. The Independent exaggerated that the whole of London was bombed, when it actually haven’t, illustrated by “ Blast London”. The Independent want to make it sounds like a big issue, making the audience feel astonish and shock. Most newspaper distort their headline in order to attract the reader’s attention. In point of fact every newspaper is vital to have a good headline in order to grab hold of their audience, for the reason that they are all competing with each other.
The independent states that 34 people were critically hurt, while the Sun states that 140 were hurt and the Independent said that 150 were hurt. Why is the information different? . I advisably think it would be wiser not to trust or rely upon facts that are given in newspapers because it could be inaccurate and imprecise. In my opinion, I believe that the Independent probably have the most reliable sources of who was actually hurt because it specifically said “illtensive care” where as the Sun and Daily Star didn’t perseficly said who was hurt. There fore, I assume that the Sun and the Daily Star are both exaggerating the numbers who were hurt in the bomb blast, I suppose they want to make it sounds more catastrophic than it really is.
What makes the Independent more appealing is that it actually takes quotes from important people, where as the Sun and the Daily star haven’t. Because the Independent quotes important people’s opinions, this suggesting it is a non-bias newspaper. John Major said, “condemns appalling outrage”, Tony Blair said “Sickening outrage”, President Clinton said “cowardly act” and John Burton (Irish prime-minister) said, “ entirely unjustified”. The quotes from these important people make the newspaper seems professional and quality. Over all, the Independent is a non-bias newspaper because it doesn’t share their opinions. It is factual and it takes important people quotes to make it seem quality and reliable.
I have finished studying the three newspapers of the “Sun”, the “Daily Star” and the “Independent”. I will review and contrasting the similarity and the differences of each newspapers, and see which are the best in communicating the IRA bombing. Starting with the “sun”, the Sun over exaggerated the article and made it similar as a tragic story. Example of exaggeration is “A man and a woman fighting for life in hospital”. As you can see, it is deliberately trying the use emotive language such as “fight for life” to give a sense pitiful towards the reader. In fact, this article is purposely made for sensitive and emotional people because the whole article is based upon emotive language. The Sun’s opinions are indirect because their opinions are reflected upon their emotive language; therefore I regard the Sun as a bias newspaper.
The Daily Star is fairly different from the Sun. The Daily Star also emphasises about a girl who was caught in the blast, to catches their audiences’ attention, just as the Sun did too. The Daily Star uses very expressive and powerful language towards their hatred to the IRA, for example: “Cowards” and “evil terrorist”. This suggests that the Daily Star is a bias newspaper.
The Independent newspaper is very detailed and factual. The Independent is reliable because it does not express their feelings, unlike the other two newspapers, suggesting it is non-bias. Instead of saying how they feel, they quoted opinions from important people like President Clinton etc… to make it sound reliable, quality and formal.
The several facts that were given in each newspaper have all different fact. For example: The Sun said that “140 were hurt”, the Daily Star said that “150 were hurt” and the Independent said the “34 were hurt”. Which one of these sources is real? . I personally favour for the Independent. My reasons for this are that the Independent specifically mentioned, “34 were hurt in the hospital” and “illtensive care”. While the other two newspapers did not say that the figure of 140/150 were in hospital or are in illtensive care, therefore I assume they are both exaggerating people who were hurt in the blast, in order to make it sounds like a big issue. I am in favour for non-bias (doesn’t share opinion) newspaper because it is factual. Through studying, I found that bias newspapers are the Sun and the Daily Star, and the non-bias is the Independent. Bias newspaper normally exaggerates their point too much and it is not good to rely upon, therefore I think the Independent is reliable.
I have finally decided that the best newspaper to communicate the bombing of Dockland is the Independent newspaper. I have chosen this newspaper for a numbers of reasons. First of all, it is a non-bias newspaper, which it is reinsuring because it is not taking sides. The fact is not distorted unlike the Sun and the Daily Star. It goes through detail of what had happened by using factual language not emotive language. Finally it quotes from important people like President Clinton and John Major to make it seems more formal, professional and quality.
