In the Daily Express the headline makes a big impact, as it is white on black to make it dramatic and shock readers to make them want to buy the paper, whereas in The Times it is relatively small and not very exiting.
In the Daily Express it uses four different photographs (two on the front cover and two on the inside page). The two on the front are a photograph of the plane crash the story is covering, it is a landscape shot of the crash where you can see the damage of the crash and there is still smoke rising out of the hole in the side of the building. It is next to the iconic photo of the twin towers at the moment of the explosion as if they were being compared. The two photos inside are side by side and portrait, the one on the left is a shot of the aftermath of the crash with fire engines in the foreground; this shows the response to the accident and is quite dramatic. The photo on the right is of two plain-clothes police officers in sharp focus running towards the scene with the chaos in the background, this is an extremely dramatic shot that looks like something from a film. The Times only has one photo and it is only about a quarter of the page and is of the tower after the plane hit, your eye is drawn towards the hole in the building after the plane hit and there is smoke rising out of it.
The content of the articles is very different as the first sentence of The Times is “Stock markets and politicians around the world missed a beat last night when a light aircraft crashed into Milan’s tallest building.” this shows that broadsheets are more concerned with politics and the economy than sensationalist stories. Also The Times has more facts and tells more of the story than the Daily Express, as it is a longer story overall. It also focuses more on the political side of the story. Whereas the Daily Express is a shorter story that is more dramatic and doesn’t tell as much of the story. It also focuses on the dramatic side of things and tells the effect on the people involved.
The Times uses straight forward and factual language with only one example of first person accounts when the journalist, Richard Owen writes “ ‘My God, it’s like New York all over again,’ one bystander said as passers-by covered in blood after being hit by the falling debris were taken to ambulances.” This is typical of a broadsheet newspaper, as they usually get straight to the point without anything else. The Daily Express uses generally a more colloquial, dramatic and emotive language throughout the article as it uses words such as ‘smashed, tragedy, chilling memories, billowed, ploughed into and explosions shook the building’ to make the story seem more exciting and dramatic, also it uses more quotes and first-person accounts with three in the article rather than The Times which uses only one.
In conclusion I think that the articles fit into their stereotype quite well, as The Times used a more formal sophisticated tone with fewer and smaller pictures whereas the Daily Express was a typical tabloid with lots of large pictures and it was more entertaining to read.
