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Essay / Analysis of Newspaper Articles - 572
Analysis of Newspaper ArticlesFor this story, the Daily Telegraph uses the headline "Girl frozen alive on her own doorstep", which only states the facts. This is common in broadsheet newspapers; they don't tend to sensationalize like the tabloids do, they just state the facts. The Daily Mail headlines “The Ice Girl Who Came Back from the Dead”. This uses intertextuality. “The Ice Maiden” was modified from “the ice maiden,” a well-known phrase. The rest of the title is taken from the title of a well-known book "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold". This gives the story an interesting title and makes you wonder what a story is actually about. well-known tabloid, uses the extremely relaxed and informal title "Ice-Block Kid". This is in TheSun's usual relaxed style as it maintains a more relaxed and informal relationship with readers. It then has a subtitle which gives a little more detail than the title; it’s about getting potential readers interested in the story because they actually know what it’s about. It also tells you that this is a human interest story, one that most people will be interested in and will then appeal to you (the readers). The very formal way in which the Daily Telegraph report is written suggests a very formal relationship with the reader. It is much more informative than the other two, rather than sensationalizing the story, the facts are simply stated clearly. Other than that, the story is still presented in a way that is interesting. The Daily Mail is not as formal as the Daily Telegraph, but not as informal and chatty as the Sun. He lays out the facts but sometimes sensationalizes the story. The story is informative without being too formal and therefore will appeal to many different types of readers. The Sun has a very chatty and informal relationship with readers. The story is very sensational, as is typical in a tabloid. There is a lot of emotive language used and a lot of direct speech.