Statistical Comparison of Newspapers
Different newspapers are written to suit different preferences.
Tabloids are a lighter read whereas broad-sheets involve more
'serious' and detailed articles.
My hypothesis is that broad-sheets are more difficult to read as
tabloid newspapers summarise events using less profound wording, which
makes articles more easily understood than broad-sheet articles.
Tabloids also try to attract and hold the attention of the reader
more.
To see whether my hypothesis is true, I will have to compare
statistically certain data between a broad-sheet newspaper and a
tabloid newspaper concerning articles on similar topics and the size
of certain varying texts.
The difficulty of the reading can be measured by certain factors: word
length, sentence length, paragraph length, article length, the time
taken to read an article, area of article on page, area of headline on
page etc… I have decided, for the experiment, I will compare word
length- the amount of letters in a word; sentence length- the amount
of words in a sentence; and percentage area of headline text that
makes up the newspaper page excluding margins, pictures and other
texts. I have chosen these three factors as the longer the word or
sentence, the more concentration is needed to read and focus on what
is being said. However, the percentage area of a headline is to prove
how much of the newspaper is dedicated to actual text, therefore more
concentration is required, instead of just trying to attract attention
to the actual newspaper on news-stands etc, not the news it consists.
The language used in each newspaper will depend on the topic of the
article as well as the writer. In order for m investigation not to be
biased, I will have to take article samples from different kinds of
news such as politics, sport and finance. I believe these article
topics will be representative of each newspaper. The sampled news
articles will concern the subject in both papers.
When counting letters or sentences, I will take care not to be biased
I am going to record the number of letters in each of the first 100
Media Comparison Research There has been considerable debate on media comparison research as it relates to education over the past few years. According to Richard Clark, there has been a "paradigm shift" that occurred in instructional media research during the past decade from a behavioral to a more cognitive approach. Anglin 348. Clark felt that there was "consistent evidence found that there are no learning benefits to be gained from employing any specific medium to deliver instruction. Research showing performance on time saving gains from one or another medium is shown to be vulnerable to compelling rival hypothesis concerning the uncontrolled effects of instructional method and novelty.
Newspaper Comparisons Introduction For this statistical coursework I will compare the length of words in tabloid and broadsheet newspapers. My sources are 'The Sun' (a tabloid) and 'The Times' (a broadsheet). Predictions / Hypotheses * Broadsheets, on average, use long words, while tabloid newspapers generally contain shorter words than broadsheets. * Tabloids have a wider variation in the number of letters per word than broadsheets * The most common (modal) number of letters per word for a broadsheet is between 5 and 8, while the most common number of letters per word in a tabloid is between 4 and 7.
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Comparing Two Newspaper Articles I'll be comparing the front page story of two newspapers. One is from a tabloid newspaper, as the other is from a broadsheet. I'll put across the. the diverse techniques that tabloids and broadsheets portray in their front page story. Newspaper media is designated to notify, and aim an.
The effective use of rhetoric can spur people into action for worthy causes, bring about positive health changes, and even persuade one to finish a college education. In contrast, like most things in life, what can be used for good can also be used in a negative way to elicit emotions such as outrage, fear, and panic. This type of rhetoric often uses fallacious statements in an appeal to emotion which complicates the matter even more as the emotions are misdirected. Unfortunately, the daily newspapers are filled with numerous examples of fallacious statements. Within the past week, the following five examples appeared in the New York Times and USA Today. The examples included statements that demonstrated scapegoating, slippery slope, ad hominem, straw man, line-drawing, arguments from outrage, and arguments from envy.
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My two articles I have chosen to compare are from the ‘The Sun’ and ‘The Times’. They are about a man who has kidnapped an eight-year-old girl, Sarah Payne. The police have recently issued an e-fit picture of the kidnapper to the media. The two newspapers present the story in different ways, therefore, both newspapers have to be attractive to sell well. To be ‘eye-catching’ the layout of the article is very important. ‘The Sun’ has used the e-fit picture of the kidnapper on the front-page, which takes up 75% of the page. However, this is very helpful because even if the paper does not sell the customers will see the e-fit picture. There is a single column along side the picture which is headed by ‘Sarah Payne’, who has been kidnapped. The picture of the kidnapper is very sincere and the man is unshaven making him look evil and scary. The headline is also bold and eye-catching because the black background illuminates the white headline. The headline is put in the form ‘one word, one line’ to make it sound like an instruction:
ways as I have explained in this essay. It is a fact that The Mirror
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However, Nieman Journalism Lab proves that 96% of newsreading is done in print editions (Journalism.about.com, 2014). According to The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) which was released in 2014, newspaper circulation has increas...
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