The news article published by The Daily Mail
which is a tabloid digital and physical newspaper, has reported an article posted
on the 30th of November 2015 by Hugo Gye the writer Hugo describes how a teenage girl
had died due to a condition known as ‘electro-hypersensitivity’ which triggers
from electronic waves outputted from Wi-Fi devices such as a router in her case
within the school she had attended. As this subject is a very serious matter,
the online newspaper and writer presents this information in a very serious
style of writing to not provoke the audience as some may be sensitive and
vulnerable to while also aiming the article towards their target audience; who
are the working class adults. We can denote that the newspaper is a broadsheet
due to the size of the font, being small not large compared to tabloid newspapers
like The Sun who have a style of having their masthead with bold large font and
over dramatic and exaggerated use of lexis with a focus on human interest
stories and celebrity gossip to draw in more of an audience. Additionally the
quality of this newspaper is also a described as a good quality source of
information whereas a tabloid would feature more less in depth reporting of
articles and frequently use puns and jokes in the headlines.
The main image used is also very sensitive as it shows
the girl smiling which is associated with innocence and links to the
‘pure-hearted’ youth that would make the audience feel a sense of compassion
towards the girl. This is there to try and provide a surge of popularity which
would bring more attention to the article and thus the online newspaper itself
to gain more recognition and hits. This news story incorporates aspects of personalization
in an attempt to make the reader of the article feel like they can relate to
the incident at hand to take it to a personal level. This essentially comes to
the construction of the article and how the writer has constructed it in order
for it to affect how they would respond to it, as this is represented through
the elements of the article such as the sensitive pictures of the now deceased
girl smiling with captions beneath it to provide a deeper insight onto what she
was going through, using specific emotive lexis such as “Suffering” and “Allergy”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3339511/Schoolgirl-15-hanged-developing-allergic-reaction-WiFi-school.html
You included a sufficient amount of detail on the event, I also liked how you described the effect this news would have on the audience. To improve you could compare this to a similar event.
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