Comparing The Sun and The Times
The two newspapers which I am going to write about and discuss are
“The Sun”, which is a tabloid newspaper and “The Times”, which is a
broadsheet. The newspapers are both dated Monday 10 November, 2003.
The first difference is that the broadsheet is bigger than the
tabloid. People read tabloids for entertainment and gossip. The
broadsheet caters for readers who are interested in hard news and who
are professional, such as lawyers, doctors, and teachers. There is
more text in the broadsheet because reporters tell the story in
detail. They are also more factual. In a tabloid newspaper stories are
shorter. The tabloid newspapers favourite use of slang for example,
she’s a stunner, it’s a bummer.” Broadsheet newspapers use Standard
English because the stories are about, politics, economics, and
foreign affairs. But the tabloid stories focus on human
Interest stories about – pop stars, footballers, government/royal
family scandal.
The similarities that the stories have are the remembrance of
Armistice Day (end of war) and also people who died and were who were
wounded in Iraq. To show this there is one poppy on each newspaper
near the title.
The kinds of stories in the newspapers are topical at that time. The
story about Charles and his sexual behaviour, in “The Sun” the story
begins on the front page but encourages readers to look inside the
paper by putting most of the story on pages five and six. “The Times”
also covers the story, which shows its importance.
The layout in both the newspapers is similar. They both have a
masthead and the masthead and the news headlines are both bold and
huge. But the broadsheet has smaller bold headlines. They both have
dateline and earpiece, where on the right hand corner there is
advertisements. They both have splash headlines and there is a box
rule around the text. They have other stories in the front cover. Both
papers use a bit of colour and graphics.
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want the reader to be drawn to the headline and want to read on, so
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...ers. Tabloids aim to mainly create emotion amongst readers, where as a broadsheets aim to inform its readers. Readers of a tabloid are normally less educated and interested in issues that affect them. On the contrary, a broadsheet reader is expected to be more educated, of a higher socio-economic group and take interest in business and international related affairs. Therefore, the layout and language change to suit the reader. The layout is similar in both papers in the sense they both use pictures and columns. However, ‘The Sun’ chooses to put the story on the front-page and presents it on a larger scale. Language is more technical in the broadsheet and has been used only to inform. ‘The Sun’ is biased towards Sarah Payne and her family and uses a less informing tone unlike broadsheets. A particular message is also apparent in ‘The Sun’. In my opinion, both types of newspapers have successfully satisfied their aims.