Write a comparison of the two or three articles on the inside page of the Daily Express and the front page of The Times, explaining how the two pieces are appropriate for the newspaper for which they are written.

        

The Daily Mail’s headline is “Cherie gives her story”. They have written it all in capital letters to make it stand out more. The word “story” implies that The Daily Mail thinks she has made it up because story means made up. Also story means there is not only one view but two views on this.  The headline of The Daily Mail is written in very huge font size and takes up much more than the actual article. Instead of the strap line which The Times has in the beginning, they use topic sentence. The topic sentence is in bold and the first word of the caption is in capital. The caption gives us a quick idea what the article is about. It gives some space between the headline and pictures. The Time’s headline is “I am not a superwomen- I am sorry”.  This headline shows that she just a normal human being and made a mistake just as every other human makes mistakes. The Times has two strap lines so that we know the two main things the article is about. They say she admits she made two mistakes and makes the readers against her.  The Times use medium sized bold writing. For the strap lines they use two bullet points one and font is smaller than the headline. They have done this to show the strap lines are important and tell the reader the things discussed in the article. Underneath the article is written in smaller font but Cherie Blair’s name in the beginning is written in capital letters and slightly bigger than the rest of article. The by line, in The Times, is written in slightly bigger font size the article whereas in The Daily Mail the by line only the name of the person that the article is written by is bold and bigger font size than the rest of the text. The writing does not have hardly any space between them. The Evening Standard headline say “I’m very proud of Cherie”, it is written this is saying that Tony Blair agrees fully with his wife. Eyes are drawn to headline because it is bigger and bolder than The Times and The daily Mail.  It uses topic sentence to start off the article just as The Daily Mail does. The topic sentence is bolder and slightly bigger than the rest of the text. Tony Blair names written in bold and capital letters, they did this to divert the attention to Tony Blair and say it’s not only Cherie fault but Tony Blair’s fault too.  They use lots of spaces between text and heading.

The Daily Mail starts by saying she ‘gave a powerful and emotional performance as she appealed for public sympathy after ten days of crippling publicity. This quote shows she gave a speech and was very upset while giving it; it is making it seem Cherie Blair is guilty and the public has been making her life hard.  It mentions Cherie Blair as ‘the spouse of a Prime Minister, this is referring to Cherie Blair is related to the Prime Minister but by calling he spouse did makes it seem she is far related and does not sound as if she is the wife of the Prime Minister. ‘Calculated; implies she made up the speech before hand so she should make mother’s feel sorry for her. ‘Unprecedented public statement’, this shows that never before has the Prime Minister wife given a speech like this as it is not her job to give speeches , it is Tony Blair’s job to give speeches. This gives a dramatic statement and makes the readers read more. Also they use direct quotation from Cherie Blair herself, ‘sometimes I feel I would like to crawl away and hide’ But I will not’, this shows she admits she has done something wrong and feels like hiding and she won’t.   Another quote to show Cherie Blair made a mistake is ‘Mrs Blair conceded she had made two mistakes’, this quote also shows Cherie Blair is guilty. This creates an anti Cherie biased article. The Times also created an anti Cherie biased article by “ CHERIE BLAIR choked back tears last night as she admitted two mistakes over the Bristol flats affair and declared she was not Superwomen” this means she’s a normal human and makes mistakes like everyone. They also use lots of direct quotation, long sentences, factual information, information from a variety of sources and direct quotation. These all add to the against Cherie article. In The Evening Standard it is completely different from The Times and The Daily Mail. The article does not create an anti Cherie bias infact it supports her very much. It does this by using direct quotation ‘very proud’; courage’ these show the positive support they are giving Cherie Blair.

 The one I wanted to read most was The Evening Standard. This is because it has short columns and huge headline which is eye catching. If the articles are short the readers are more likely to read it because reading short articles take much less time than reading long ones also if readers don’t have time to read long articles Eye catching attracts most people attention because they make the reader think the article is interesting and this therefore makes them read the article.  Also it shows a very emotive picture. This attracts the reader’s attention also and makes the readers want to read the article because they think it’s about something interesting. Another thing is on top they wrote heartfelt words from PM: It’s been a horrible time for her and her family; this is because everyone is giving her such a hard time for two mistakes she made.  It makes up feel sympathy for Cherie Blair. Heartfelt words from the Pm makes readers want to read it to because it is showing that although people think she’s done something wrong her husband Tony Blair supports his wife. Everyone makes mistakes and a person should not be treated in a horrible way if they make mistakes.