Compare the presentation and content of the article in the Mirror and the article in the Guardian

Communities in Britain arnt used to electric ray culture. However, what is flatulence culture? Although gun crime is increasing, is it the so-called glamorous culture that is fuelling it? On the another(prenominal)wise hand, is it the society we live in and our failure to instil morals and principles in our children?In this essay I am termination to compare how a tabloid and the website of a broadsheet presents and reports this issue. I shall be looking at the disparate presentational devices and visual images used, language and the structure and context of the material.Firstly, the difference in media is immediately clear. The mirror, a tabloid opus, has a big picture of Ice Cube the rap artist spread across two pages as its chief(prenominal) central point with the heading Dont let music take the rap. In oppose, the Guardians website has very little in the way of pictures and has the text as the main focal point with a low-spirited heading. As this is a broadsheet, I w ould expect it to be much the comparable in the actual paper. On the other hand, twain(prenominal) document have used puns in their headings. The Mirror uses Dont let music take the rap and the Guardian uses Bullet points.Both headlines are used for the same reason- to pinch the readers attention and to inform the reader what the denomination is about. Furthermore, in the tabloid paper the picture of Ice Cube holding a gun promoting his film is very similar to the one of Trevor Nelson in the main article, since they are both wearing black leather jackets and black hats. Implying that both of them are involved in the same sort of lifestyle. The Guardian does not use such presentational devices to make the article more appealing to the reader but it does have a small picture with the words Gun violence in Britain on a red back ground suggesting blood.Both papers have a good turn of articles relating to the main subject but have them displayed in very contrary ways. The Mirror has a number of small columns relating to the main editorial, which are spread just about the outside of the two pages, Dealing with various aspects of gun culture, so as to hold the readers attention the info has been broken down into digestible bites. On the other hand, it may distract the readers attention from the main article. However, the Guardian has a number of hyperlinks to related articles so there are no other actual pieces on the same page as the Bullet points article. This once again shows the difference in media and how the two papers are able to present their articles.At the can buoy of the main article in the Mirror there is a section asking the public to write in if gang life has affected them. present the Mirror is inviting readership participation, much as TV shows such as Jerry Springer and Oprah, this invites an on going discussion, which may provide the paper with a good story. They are also probably expecting sensationalist replies. The Guardian does not us e this since its editorship probably thinks its readers have the confidence to write in anyway.Since the presentation of the two articles is so different and the fact that one paper is a tabloid and the other is a broadsheet, you would expect the content of the two articles to be very different.First of all, the difference in paragraph sizes is immediately clear. The Trevor Nelson piece in the Mirror is mostly single sentence paragraphs. On the other hand, the paragraphs in the Guardian are slightly protracted with three to four sentences in a paragraph. Apart from this, the articles are not very different, both articles are against blaming music for gun crime, it is wrong to fault gun crime and violence on music, and To blame gun violence on music is to simplify and distort the problem. This in the Mirrors case is contradictory to the picture of a rap star holding a gun. The Mirrors main article is supposed to be Trevor Nelsons views on the subject written by a reporter. On the o ther hand, Willber Willberforce, a programs editor at 1Xtra, expressing his views on the subject, writes the Guardians main pieceBoth articles are mainly opinion and have little or no facts in them this is a sentence from the Mirrors article.All a kid has to do to prove he is the baddest boy in the area is to get a rumour going hes got a gun.This is a sentence from the Guardians piece.Music is in everybodys house, in everybodys car, but does not dictate peoples morals.Furthermore, the language in both articles is quite informal if you free the pun, would be not to give them any ammunition. since the Guardian is a broadsheet, a more formal approach to the subject would have been expected. Moreover, the difference in the level of vocabulary used by both papers is little or none this is an extract from The GuardianIt is a social problem that has lots of alter factors. To blame gun violence on music is to distort and oversimplify the problem.In contrast, here is a sentence from the Mi rrorNelson is adamant that it is wrong to blame gun crime and violence on music and says the fault lies in the heart of society.Here you can see that the level of vocabulary is the same.Although, both papers use people in the music industry to write their articles the way two papers choose to do this is very different. The Mirror does this by acquiring a reporter to interview Trevor Nelson and and then write an article expressing his views. On the other hand, The Guardian gets the Programmes editor at 1xtra to write his own article expressing his views this enables him to chatter directly to the reader rather than through the filter of a reporter. Moreover, the way the two pieces are organise is very different The Bullet points article starts of by talking about how gun crime has got worse, gun violence has undoubtedly got worse.Then goes on to discussing the reasons why people feel the need to carry guns, and then it blames the media for the way they portray urban musicians, Meg aman visits a hospital, but thats not newsworthy. Finally, the writer chooses to end the piece talking about how most popular urban artists dont genuinely talk about guns and violence in their songs, the biggest selling urban acts today are basically singing revere songs. In contrast, the Trevor Nelson article in the Mirror begins by talking about how music is not to blame for gun crime and violence but society, the fault lies at the heart of society. Then the article goes on to talk about how what is happening with urban music is no different to football hooliganismBut this is no different to the hooligan long time when yobs used football as vehicle for their aggression.Lastly, the article ends talking about Trevor Nelsons first hand experience of gun crime at a smart set he was DJ-ing at.I was devastated. To know someone got killed at a party where I was DJ-ingI think the Trevor Nelson article makes its points most effectively it is better structured and is well thought out. M oreover, Nelson has more credibility because he has given an MBE for bringing urban music to the UK, whereas Wilberforce is less well known. On the other hand, due to the readership of both papers it is not very lightly that the readers will know who either Nelson or willberforce are. The Bullet Points article in the Guardian did not have a main point on why not to blame music, it seemed to push the blame to the media. In addition, it said that the most popular urban artists sing love songs, in spite of the fact that Eminem is one of the biggest selling urban acts and one of the most controversial due to the nature of his lyrics. Furthermore, in this piece there are a number of questions asked by the writer that are left unansweredIf there were no records glorifying guns, would they still feel they needed to carry a gun?OrWhere do the influences on peoples behaviour begin and end?In conclusion, the way in which the two papers covered the issue was very different from each other, alt hough surprisingly they did have their similarities in vocabulary and language. Moreover, there were clearly some advantages and disadvantages in the medium chosen to report the subject, such as for the Guardian, the earnings enabled them to use a number of hyperlinks to satellite article but the reader would have to know the web address to get to their site first. In contrast the Mirror could guarantee that the reader would at least glance at each article whether they chose to read it or not but because they were using paper they had a limited amount of space available for articles.