The articles present very different views of this case. In the 'News of the World' article, the writer focuses a lot on the mother of James Bulger. There is an example of this in the title of the article.

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The articles present very different views of this case. In the ‘News of the World’ article, the writer focuses a lot on the mother of James Bulger. There is an example of this in the title of the article. It is a Quote from Denise Bulger saying, “ It’s 10 years since James was murdered and the pain jus doesn’t go away. His two killers have new identities, new lives. But I know where they are…” This shows that ‘The News of the World’ are of the opinion that the two young boys shouldn’t have been so easily forgiven.    ‘The Guardian’ focuses alot on the two boys responsible for the horrific murder.  

Both articles use presentational features to help promote their opinions, for example ‘The Guardian’ uses a large picture to capture the readers attention. The picture the editor has chosen is one of James Bulger. This picture really captures the young child’s innocents, his big eyes catch the readers attention and makes them want to read on. There is also very little text on the first page. This is to tell the reader as little as possible but to make sure the reader is engulfed in the article making them want to read on. In ‘The Guardian’ article the title in itself is a presentational device. It is very large bold text. Also it is emotive language, “Life after James.”

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‘The News of the World’ on the other hand does not use as many pictures to capture the interest of the readers, the writer uses large, bold fonts to draw the readers attention.

‘The Guardian’ article goes into more detail. It tells the whole tragic story of James death and in total the article is four pages long. This is in contrast with ‘The News of the World’ as this article is shorter and perhaps easier to read.

Both articles are very generous with their use of emotive language, although both for very different reasons. The emotive language ...

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