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Differences between two articles

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:31 pm
by Pat
I’ve chosen two articles that talk about the verdict in the case of Diana, Princess of Wales.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/world ... ref=slogin
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... TTR=Royals
One of them, from a serious newspaper, “The New York Times”, and the other one from a tabloid press ,“The Sun”.
The first one has a more sober format and it’s better structured.
It explains with more details the background.
There aren’t pictures.
On the other hand, the second one looks more sensational, not only for the way they expose the information, but for the color and the use of bold type.
The sentences are shorter and they explain anecdotes and some gossip about the trial.
There are a lot of photographs and under the pictures they write a sentence with suspension points in order to dramatize.
I haven’t seen too much differences between the vocabularies that both of them use.
From my point of view, if you want to be well inquired your should buy “The New York Times” and maybe you can buy “The Sun” from time to time to have some fun.