The two articles are about war, one is taken from the front page of the The Daily Telegraph, Saturday January 11th 2003 and the other is from The Daily Mirror on the same date.

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Comparing two newspaper articles

The two articles are about war, one is taken from the front page of the The Daily Telegraph, Saturday January 11th 2003 and the other is from The Daily Mirror on the same date.

The articles are structured differently: The Mirror has three neat columns with one large picture taking up about 50% of the space.  Whereas The Telegraph has the text in just one column but still has a large picture.

The Daily Mirror’s headline is sensational, ‘Off To War’ is written in large, capitalized font.  The headline misleads the reader as the article is actually about ‘brave teenage sailors’ getting ready for war not actually going to war.  The purpose of this technique is to persuade the reader to buy the article. The headline in The Daily Telegraph is different as it’s a lot smaller, it is very simple and uses sibilance, which is the repetition of the ‘s’ sound.

They both appear on the front page and use the same picture, but from two very different angles.  The picture of Donna Fleming in The Mirror is a close up, showing a pretty young female to appeal to the male readers.  The picture of Donna Fleming that appears in The Daily Telegraph puts her on half of the page and the union jack on the other half; this picture is more patriotic and is in line with what the article is about.

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Newspapers all appeal to a certain age, class or profession of person. The Mirror is a typical tabloid paper; most tabloid papers are aimed at an average age working class people usually with manual jobs such as bin men, lorry drivers or cleaners etc, with interests such as football or rugby. Every newspaper is aimed at a certain reading age but it is not always necessarily aimed at that particular age for example The Mirror is aimed at readers that are fourteen plus but has a reading age of seven plus. Likewise the telegraph is also aimed at a ...

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