I am looking at the story of an eleven year old boy who was shot dead by another youth. I will be using The Sun and The Daily Telegraph to compare the differences between tabloids and broadsheets reporting this story.

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I am looking at the story of an eleven year old boy who was shot dead by another youth. I will be using The Sun and The Daily Telegraph to compare the differences between tabloids and broadsheets reporting this story.

The purpose of headlines is to catch the attention of potential readers by being large. They also catch attention by shocking the readers and by clearly informing us of what has happened.

Most of the papers usually try to make their headlines large and bold to attract and persuade people to buy their papers. In the tabloid paper The Sun, the headline takes up about half of the front page. The broadsheet paper, The Daily Telegraph takes up a little space on the front page but it is still using bold text to make it stand out. The Sun doesn’t try to make its headline more complicated as it is in The Daily Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph uses formal words like in the headline they say   ‘YOUTH’ instead of kid but the sun uses informal word ‘KID’ on its headline. The sun has four subheadings which show a summary of the story.

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Both of the papers don’t use much alliteration this might be due to the fact that this story is very serious. The Sun uses lots of colloquial language which is a informal everyday word. The Daily Telegraph uses formal language for all their texts and headlines. The Sun uses sibilance on S sound words to make the headline more powerful ‘YOB BRITAIN SINKS TO A SICKENING LOW’.

In the tabloid paper The Sun, it doesn’t have a picture on the front page this might suggest that this is a sensitive story. The broadsheet paper The Daily Telegraph uses ...

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