MEDIA

Media is a channel where by information is spread. Seeing as information is transfered through various mediums, it tends to get distorted. One medium of distributing infomation is through newspapers. These fall under two categories, Broodsheets and tabloids.

There are differences when one looks at how news is presented in a broadsheet as opposed to how the same news is presented in a tabloid. Below is a table show the differences betweens news in The Sun and the same topic in The Guardian.

	broadsheets	tabloids
Writers voice	Balanced and unbaised
language	Formal language even when describing horrific  events	Use of informal language  e.g.   describing the offenders as an “evil pair”.
pictures	·         One picture ·         Viewer friendly	·         Lots of pictures ·         Disturbing in nature
Quotations used	both direct and indirect	both direct and indirect

Raif,S.(2012)'Pair jailed for'witch' boy murder',The Independent,5March[Online]. Available at:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pair-jailed-for-witch-boy-murder-7537120.html(Accessed:5 March 20120


The Sun(2012)'Witchcraft murder pair jailed for life' Available at:http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4173711/Witchcraft-murder-pair-jailed-for-life.html(Accessed:  4 march 2012)