MEDIA – NEWSPAPERS

MEDIA – NEWSPAPERS

There are many daily national newspapers in Britain for example, THE Guardian, THE Independent, THE DAILY Telegraph, And THE Times. These newspapers are called Quality paper or Broadsheet, which are for better educated reader. This kind of newspapers focus on politics and other serious news. In addition, it has more texts and fewer pictures. However, there are other kind of daily national newspapers are called Popular papers or Tabloid for example, THE Sun, THE Daily Mail and THE Mirror which caters for a much larger readership. The popular papers contain far less print than the quality newspapers and far more pictures. They use larger headlines and write in a simpler style of English. Moreover, the tabloids concentrate on human interest stories.

 Characteristics of Newspaper Headlines in one of each broadsheet and tabloid.

Omit Grammar words e.g. Auxiliary words for example, in THE Sun : Pakistani cricket trio charged. Moreover, in the Sun use the simple present for action for example, man shot by cops dies in hospital. However, in the Independent use the infinitive for the future for example, why you may have to phone a call centre to see your GP. Otherwise, in the Sun distinctive vocabulary – emotional / dramatic words such as UK house prices rocket in January also in the Sun use o abbreviations like UK house prices rocket in January.  However, alliteration in the Independent for example, Osborne fails to bring bank access to account.

http://www.independent.co.uk/  on Thursday 10/ 02 /2011