Comparing two newspapers with the same story

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Comparing two newspapers with the same story

I will be comparing two newspapers articles with identical story, both of which are subjected on a gay prostitute scandal which claimed the career of Mark Oaten a liberal democrat candidate who was competing for leadership of liberal democrats. I have underlined key information from the articles.

My first newspaper article is a tabloid dated January 23rd 2006 and published by the Daily Mirror, which contains two main pages of the article first of which is the title page portraying at center of the title page a picture of “Disgraced MP Mark Oaten’s Wife Belinda is away on a ski trip” with those words printed at the bottom of the pictures with small font size signifying the location of the picture also why she look very happy and at beside the pictures are the words “Abroad and alone, the loyal wife betrayed by rent boy MP” in large, white, bold letters with black background, this type of wording suggest that that this is one of the main subjects of the article and the newspaper feel sympathy for the wife as it states the words “Abroad and alone, the loyal wife”. This page of the article uses effective headline as it relates to problem that most people can relate to (human interest) also this suggest that perhaps this article is for adults who are interested in to day-to-day affairs of concerned about the countries political leaders as it uses emotive words that focuses with information relevant to politics and family affairs such as “the loyal wife betrayed by rent boy MP”.

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The second part of this article concludes from the title page and focuses in-depth of opinions and facts from the writers. This part of the article is broken up to four main sections, Firstly the article includes the main title “how could he do this his family” that implies this article is based on story and the article is associated with human interest and has strong emotional content.

Secondly this part of the article consist of opinions and facts from “James Chapman deputy political editor” focuses on consequences of Mark Oaten’s action towards the liberal democrats the political editor ...

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