Comparing the Ways in Which a Tabloid Newspaper and a Broadsheet Newspaper Treat the Same News Story

Comparing the Ways in Which a Tabloid Newspaper and a Broadsheet

Newspaper Treat the Same News Story

The death of John Thaw was announced in national newspapers on the

Friday 22nd of February 2002. In my essay I am going to compare the

story of John Thaws death from two newspapers. These newspapers are

the Mirror, which is a tabloid and the Times which is a broadsheet.

Tabloid newspapers include the Sun, Star, and Mirror. Broadsheet

newspapers include the Gaurdian, Times, and the Daily Telegraph.

The differences between a broadsheet and a tabloid are the size, a

tabloid newspaper is half the size of a broadsheet. You need a lower

reading age to read a tabloid because there are shorter articles, and

more pictures. Whereas to read a broadsheet you need a higher reading

age, this is because they use longer words, they tend to go into more

depth and detail in their articles, and they have less pictures than a

tabloid. The news articles in a tabloid focus on personal stories and

stories about gossip. They love to talk about the private lives of

television, film and sports personalities, they like to stir up

trouble about secrets and affairs, these stories tend to be

sensational. News coverage in a broadsheet is focused on hard news

like politics, world and national affairs, economics, trade, and

finance. The articles in a broadsheet are factual and they don't talk

about gossip. Entertainment coverage in a tabloid is good, they cover

television, films, and music, it's mainly popular music and concerts.

Entertainment in a broadsheet focuses mainly on the arts, music

theatre and book reviews. They cover jazz, opera and classical music,

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... middle of paper ...

...o the small photo there is a

huge photo of John Thaw. The photo is four colums wide, and it's how

people remember him, his eyes are looking directly at the camera, this

was his acting technique. At the bottom of page seven there is a

further four photos. They are joined together like a reel of film,

these photos are of him acting in some of the popular television

programmes he starred in. The photographs in the article make it seem

more personal.

The article I like the best is the one in the Mirror. I like it best

because it contains photographs. It was more interesting because it

gave a more personal and detailed story, it gives a more personal

story by using photographs and telling you about his family history.

The Times article wasn't interesting, and it didn't grab your

attention, in my opinion it was boring.