Weekly News Analysis: Americans seeking to escape Donald Trump are offered asylum in Canada

The Sun is the most read newspaper in all of the United Kingdom, while at the same time this type of newspaper is what's known as a tabloid newspaper. The main difference from the online newspaper of The Sun compared to it's print format is that the newspaper states who has written the article in print, whereas in the digital online format, none of the newspaper articles detail a writer within. The headline of the article presents to the audience of how the United States presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump, is running for president while most Americans are so afraid that he might be successful in the election that they might even consider moving abroad to "escape" Donald Trump.

The Sun uses adjectives like "escape" in the title to try and attract readers to the article, as the newspaper's agenda is to attempt at representing Americans who are against Donald Trump like refugees seeking asylum from a war stricken country. From this it suggests that the agenda that the opinion leaders of the newspaper have are that they're against this presidential candidate becoming president. The main image that the newspaper uses for this article shows Donald Trump in a pose similar to what a dictator looks like when presenting a speech, with his arm up and hand out over the people.

The use of this image is very symbolic to what a past dictator like Hitler's actions he used to use when delivering a speech to the citizens, while it is also a reminder that from the action in this picture (which could also be timed a perfectly timed shot) his actions relate to the techniques the late dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, used when presenting himself to North Korea's citizens. The audience could also interpret this image in a different way however, as this could be what the opinion leaders want the audience to think, that from this hand gesture in the main image, it suggests that Donald Trump is shouting at those Americans that oppose him (judging from his facial expression too), essentially suggesting the notion of telling them to go away and get out of the country.

The article does indeed state that within the body text and the headline that Americans can opt to flee to Canada if they do happen to live under Donald Trump's rule. However while this is also one of the opinion leaders ideaology that they're supporting, the headline to the article is quite misleading. It's misleading because as the reader proceeds to scroll down in an effort to read the article, there are no facts about the presidential election nor substantial information about Donald Trump that the audience can learn from. The article acts as a mere advertisement to promote a website that is trying to make people aware of a Canadian island, Cape Breton, that's trying to increase the population there through the presidential election campaign.


Link to the article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/6956380/Americans-seeking-to-escape-Donald-Trump-offered-political-asylum-on-Canadian-island.html