Comparing the Daily Express and the Times

Authors Avatar

The Daily Express is a tabloid newspaper. It is mainly aimed for audiences who would like to skim read the news, in order to have a good knowledge of events and incidents all around the world. The Times is a broadsheet newspaper that has vast and factual information. It is mainly aimed for audiences who wish to read the news in complete detail about the current affairs and events all around the world. These two newspapers contrast between each other on how they present and deliver news to the audiences.        Proof of this could be found through comparing how the two newspapers documented the plane crash in Milan on Friday 19 April 2002.

The layout used for the article in the Daily Express is much more effective than the Times and captures the readers attention. It contains a bold impressive headline, typed in gigantic capital letters. It delivers an instantaneous and express news, the headline only reads “OH MY GOD NOT AGAIN”. In the Times article the fonts used for the headline are much smaller and are in small letters. The headline used in the Times is elongated therefore the message, reading “My God it’s like New York all over again” does not draw the audience attention immediately.  This is because the headline used in the Daily Express sounds like a personal experience and it could also mean anything.

Join now!

The front page of the Daily Express contains two photographs, one of them is of the plan attack and the other photograph is of New York disaster. These two photographs have been compared to capture the reader’s attention by reminding the reader of the New York event. If an article is written in such a way that it reminds the reader of another major event is known as intertextuality. The second page contains two same sized photographs of the building before and after the incident. On the second page the caption underneath the photographs reads ‘Devastation: Firefighters and plain-clothes ...

This is a preview of the whole essay