Tuesday, 3 November 2015

News Analysis - Sinai plane crash: IS claims 'propaganda', says Egypt president

The recent plane crash incident supposedly  purportrated by the terrorist organization ISIS has been written about in a report by the BBC. According to the Egyptian president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the crash was not by ISIS themselves but militants who have strong links to the organization and was brought down as a means of showing propaganda. This information is located in the sub-heading of the article and the language used here is formal which details what type of audience the newspaper caters for which is the working class people. From this and considering that the online newspaper is BBC News, they report serious informative events that occur around the world and don’t use hyperbole to make the headline dramatic, we can realize that this quality online newspaper is a broadsheet.

The bullet points in the article are there to cater more information closely linked with the incident that they’re reporting on such as how the Russian media are reacting to this news considering more than half of the passengers were Russian citizens, these bullet points are here to mainly place the event in context. The article also gives some backstory to previous events of what the military has been doing in conjunction to this incident, for example how the military had launched an insurgency against the late president of Egypt that’s used to display power within the country and make the country seem as if they’re in a better light.


The aftermath is also detailed in the bodytext of the article as to give information on what caused the bomb, if there are any theories as to what really occurred mid-air on the flight too. The images are very informative as they depict where the airplane exploded, the debris of the airplane and a mapping of the debris to make it more simpler for the audience.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34706639

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting and in depth analysis of this tragic and disturbing story. You went into a lot of detail on the particular aspects of the article and used the correct terminology for the articles features.

    To improve you could maybe express more of your own opinion on the story and how it is relevant. Good work!

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  2. I also found this incite into the story very intriguing to read, I think you have displayed this specific article very well and I think you put it togetherr well.

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