I am comparing two newspapers. The Sun and The Daily Telegraph. The Sun is a well known tabloid and The Daily Telegraph a broadsheet.

The Daily Telegraph is different from The Sun as it contains a lot of text as well as having a large set of pictures that fill the page.  The headline is extremely large, as is The Suns.  The headline “The long and the short of Italian fashion” is also a double meaning as it refers to the six pictures below which show three models in long dresses and three in short.  The text in The Daily Telegraph is broken up more than The Suns which is two short block paragraphs.  The pictures are of a more fashionable nature, containing models exposing nothing more than their arms and legs.  The captions under the pictures refer to the designers and the show rather than models, showing that the focus of this article is on the fashion rather than sex and models, “Giorgio Armani: show was an oasis of serenity and good taste staged before a celebrity audience fit for a Hollywood premiere” as opposed to “Milla, Naomi and Gisele in naughty necklaces and a model in top form”.  The Daily Telegraph is aimed at the middle/upper class or possibly more intelligent or older population.  The paper is fashion orientated.  The language is far more complex and than in The Sun, “His show was a cavalcade of camp Chinoiserie”.  There are more technical words that refer to fashion such as “chiffon”, “tunics” and “corsets”.  There is also alliteration in The Daily Telegraph as well as personification and similes which aren’t found in The Sun, “wild night in a Wild West saloon” and “cavalcade of camp Chinoiserie” are examples of alliteration, “wisp of chiffon pretending to be a skirt” is an example of personification, because it makes the clothes seem life like, “coloured beads shimmered like stars” is an example of alliteration and is also a simile.  The article is extremely informative as the article is relevant to the subject, which is to inform readers of important advances in the fashion world, which wasn’t the case in The Sun.  The tone of the article is more serious, with little humour.  

Of the two articles The Daily Telegraph was more informative and relevant to fashion, whereas The Sun was more entertaining and based on sex.  The language in The Daily Telegraph was more emotive and complex than that of The Suns which was simple and humorous.  The Daily Telegraph was aimed at the middle/upper class and The Sun at the working class or men in general.  Both included alliteration and both included innuendos, however there were more in The Sun.

I preferred The Daily Telegraph’s article as it was more informative and was based on the subject of fashion.  I chose these articles because they concerned fashion, so obviously I was disappointed with The Sun’s article which had little relevance to it.  The language in The Sun was simple but The Daily Telegraph’s was more complex which made it more challenging to read and therefore more enjoyable.