Tuesday 29 September 2015

'Migrant crushed in lorry' article comparison

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34388412 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-crisis-live-man-dies-after-1500-storm-channel-tunnel-as-theresa-may-prepares-to-chair-10423025.html

This first article is fairly short and tells all the facts without much extra detail."Calais officials said the man was "crushed" by pallets and was found by a Hungarian driver at about 07:00 BST. " The information necessary is given with facts about the time and location without any extra details. There isn't any emotion or personal opinions given in the article. By doing this the BBC are making the article unbiased.

Lorries queuing for the port at Calais in August and watched by migrants
This article gives a lot more information than the last. This talks a lot about the background of the story and how it came about."They said that both on Monday night and in the early hours of today there had been repeated breaches of the security fence by groups of around 50 migrants at a time." This background information gives the reader a bit of knowledge on the subject. The article also gives opinions on the subject. The article gives a quote from David Cameron giving his opinion on the subject."I have every sympathy with holidaymakers who are finding access to Calais difficult because of the disturbances there and we will do everything we can to work with the French to bring these things to a conclusion." This makes the article slightly more personal. 

The similarities between the two articles is they both contain a lot of facts to do with timings and locations."A young Sudanese asylum seeker was crushed to death by a lorry early today after migrants attempted to enter the Channel Tunnel as the crisis in Calais continued." and "Calais officials said the man was "crushed" by pallets and was found by a Hungarian driver at about 07:00 BST.". Both articles also have strap lines "Police said up to 1,500 attempts to break through security fence had been made " and "A 20-year-old Iraqi has been found dead in a UK-bound lorry in Calais port, French authorities have said." Strap lines make the readers interested and want to read on. 

1 comment:

  1. Good. You have outlined some of the key differences in content and style. To improve, start to look at how different techniques suite the GRAPE using a PEE paragraph-style approach.

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