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Textual analysis and Critical Political Economy
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Media Studies (COM1010)
Assignment 2 (2000 Words)
Mohamed Sidhrath
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This essay will highlight the following news items based on textual analysis and critical, political economy. The news item addresses the issue related to war in Sri Lanka between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Tamil tigers. An online news publication and video reports is compared in this essay. The video news report by Al Jazeer reported on 12th May "Concerns rise over Sri Lanka civilian deaths " and the news article published by CNN on May 5th "Sri Lankan president declares success over rebels " is more likely to give its readers with different opinions based on textual analysis as well as the critical, political economy.
The video report shows concern towards the war and death of civilians, which a viewer will instantly get by the title itself and in depth after viewing the report and listening to the report saying that Tamil tigers using civilians as human shields and government attacking them. However the CNN report title seems to give another impression as it says the crisis is more successfully tackled which however doesn't seem to take
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