Weekly News 2

The Sun is one of the biggest well known newspapers in the UK which mainly and always present news stories on the front cover based around negativity in order to draw the reader in and purchase the newspaper. An example of this is a new article published by The Sun’s reporters ‘Lynsey Clarke’ and Kristy Dawson’ as stated from the byline, the main splash states “Gran killed my sis yet HER family got custody of son”. The writers address this in a way in which it feels like the reader is involved in that incident, especially using the phrase “Gran killed my sis” which provokes hatred from the audience due to the assumption that most of them having a sister and a grandma close to them, this article tries to involve the audience in order to generate a greater effect on the audience rather than giving a standard, positive approach explaining what the article is about, that would be seen in a broadsheet newspaper such as ‘The London Evening Standard’. The fact that the writer uses informal language to address the crime and make it feel like the readers own relative has been murdered instead of using “her sister” in place of “my sis” in the main splash makes it even more clear that this is a key distinctive feature which distinguishes the two types of newspapers (a tabloid and a broadsheet), generally the tabloid newspaper isn’t the serious news you’d want to read as they tend to include a lot of colloquialisms and be more irreverent in their writing style compared to the more serious broadsheet newspapers.

According to this article, just below the main splash it states that the article is “EXCLUSIVE” in big capital letters in an attempt to somehow try and gain the readers attention and deem that this article is superior to the other written articles due to a petty factor such as how in this case the victims family supposedly speaks out to The Sun. The newspaper tries to make it seem as if its exceptionally significant when in fact that the exclusive aspect isn’t that much of a big concern or deal to the reader, as it’s only there to try and persuade you to read it.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6665402/Gran-killed-my-sis-yet-her-family-got-custody-of-son.html