Comparing a Tabloid and a Broadsheet!

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Comparing a Tabloid and a Broadsheet The two articles are about Facebook’s success. They are both about the same thing but they present the article in a very different way. The tabloid article’s layout is different from the broadsheet. The picture in the tabloid newspaper shows Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook floated. The caption is not very long yet informative “Going Public… Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook floated.” The actual writing takes up about one third of the page. The reason for this is that the journalist wants the article to be interesting yet informative at the same time. The journalist does not want the reader to get bored. So, therefore he wants the article to be short, catchy and informative. On the other hand the broadsheet does not have a picture. The writing takes up the whole page. The article contains a lot of information, complex and technical words because some people would only like to know the information, rather than wasting their time on seeing pictures. The headlines are also very different. The headline in the tabloid is “Huge and it’s in bold. The headline only gives an idea about what the article is about.” The reason for this is that young people will get attracted by the bold headline and they will get interested into reading the article. Whereas the headline in broad sheet is “Bigger than the text, not as huge as the one in tabloid. It’s in bold and it’s an informative headline. I think that the most effective headline is the one in tabloid because it tells you the basic information about the article. It is bold and massive, which makes me interested in reading the actual article. I think the audience of the tabloid article are working class and young people/ adults. My reason for thinking this are that working class people wouldn’t read whole of the newspaper, so when they are scanning through for an article to read, they

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