Comment On The Similarities and Differences Between Two Newspaper Articles, On Princess Diana's Visit to Sarajevo

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Abdul Khan W3 ﻞﺪﺏآ                                                                        Wednesday 29th March 2001

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Comment On The Similarities and Differences Between Two Newspaper Articles, On Princess Diana’s Visit to Sarajevo

In this assignment I am going to compare two newspaper articles about Princess Diana’s Visit to Sarajevo. The main purpose of Diana’s visit was to meet the victims of landmine. The two articles are from broadsheet newspapers: The Independent and the Daily Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph supports the Royal Family, which means that ‘Royalists’ will read the news in this paper. The Independent is a company with editor’s who are free to write what they will. They are not easily influenced by outside forces. If the Daily Telegraph was to write an article against the Royal family they will not have a large market, which will most probably put them out of business.  

The article in the Daily Telegraph is very big in the length of the article. The article covers a whole page of the newspaper; this may show the importance of the article, in that the royal family are important and should be recognised. There is also a picture in the middle of the page surrounded by text, the picture covers about forty percent of the page.

The article in the Independent is very small compared to the article in the Daily Telegraph probably because the editors for the Independent believe that their readers do not care much about the royal family. Even though the article is against the Princess the Editor might have believed that it would have bored the readers or that it is not major news.

As the article in the Daily Telegraph is very big the editor has chosen for his article to be in a landscape format so that the headline runs across the top of the page. The headline reads; ‘Princess suffers the emotions of Sarajevo’. This is suggesting that the princess has been through a lot of pain, grief, damage and self-torture just for the sake of the Bosnians in Sarajevo. The word ‘suffer’ is very emotive in that the princess is suffering for other people.

The editor of the Independent has chosen to have the article in a portrait format. As the article is very small the editor has probably made the headline in a large font so that it catches the readers eye in that he or she would carry on reading the article because of the headline that stands out. The headline reads; ‘The shirt was Lauren, the jeans were by Armani … and the tears flowed right on cue’ the headline shows that the article will be expressing a negative tone towards the Princess. The headline names out very famous designer brands, which she was wearing to her trip to Bosnia, which is a country in poverty. It also states that her tears flowed right on cue, this is suggesting that the Princess of Wales does not cry because she feels emotional but she is acting out her crying for the sake of publicity.

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The photograph in the Daily Telegraph’s article is surrounded by text and so is Princess Diana of Wales in that gravestones surround her. Diana is centred in the photograph. We do not know whether the photograph has been cropped, but I suspect that it has because if it hasn’t then Diana would have been very poised but she looks very natural in that picture. Diana is alone in the picture and is looking down at the floor as if she is very pensive, in that she is personally affected by the deaths of those people buried in the graveyard. ...

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