A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed in a large format and is associated with serious journalism as apposed to the smaller format, tabloids.  A tabloid is smaller than the broadsheet, and is more popular.  It uses a simple style, many photographs and sometimes uses sensationalism and emphasis in the stories.  Some examples of newspapers that have a broadsheet format are: The Independent, The Telegraph and the Times. Some examples of newspapers that have a tabloid format are: The Mirror, The Sun and The Daily Star. People who read broadsheets tend to be higher class people and more educated, where as people who read tabloids tend to be of a lower class and read the newspaper for a bit of gossip.

In this paragraph I am going to explain the style the Sun uses: sensationalism (or hyperbole). This is where the media emphasises parts of the article to make it more dramatic and interesting.  An example of this is “Adam Ant freed on gun rampage” They have used this news heading to catch the readers attention.  Another couple of examples of sensationalism are “Threatening pub punters with a gun” and “Temporarily insane”.  The sun also uses mockery like a “fallen pop star” because it seems odd for a popstar to act like this.

In this paragraph I am going to explain the style the Daily Telegraph uses.  The Daily Telegraph has a style that is quite formal and factual.  An example of how I know this is “Avoided Jail yesterday after a judge said he was mentally ill”.  They have written in this style because they know that their readers want the truth and they want facts, unlike the readers of the Sun.  Another couple of examples to show the laid backness of the Daily Telegraph are “Threatened customer with an imitation pistol” and “voluntarily having psychiatric treatment”.

Tabloids and broadsheets also have different styles on the political battle of the Article of “Bush and Kerry”. The tabloid paper “The Mirror” is quite a biased paper towards Kerry and is in favour of him becoming the next President of the Unites States of America.  The mirror shows a lot of unique treatment between George. W. Bush  and John F. Kerry.  I know that the Mirror mocks Bush because it say in the text “Dabya” which is mocking how the people from Texas say his name as Bush is from Texas.  Also the mirror says : “glittering military career”. This is commentating on Bushes poor military past.  They are using sarcasm to tell the reader that Bush didn’t do his country’s duty.  Even at the very start of the article the headline says “Hero is Zero”.  This is being biased to one of the candidates and is putting the other down. Whereas the Times is quite a neutral paper, it is unbiased to the candidates and comments on the good points and bad points of both George W. Bush and John F. Kerry.  However as the papers article progresses  it slightly tilts in favour of Kerry winning. I know this because the Times says that Kerry is “The real deal” This show that the Times prefers Kerry to Bush.

The language and detail between the Mirror and the Times is massively different, even though both articles compare the military background of these two candidates as a factor whether they are suitable to be president, but the Mirror uses a rhyme “Hero is Zero” to show that contempt to Bush, and their praise towards Kerry.  Also the mirror is less formal and is sort of sarcastic towards George W. Bush.  However the times uses a metaphor as a headline “Let battle commence” to show the battle between candidates.  The Times use a formal language to address the reader and is quite evenly commented on Kerry and Bush.  The Times uses a lot of detail whereas in the Mirrors article pictures are more prevalent.

In conclusion after much analysing of the tabloids and broadsheets and both articles and reports, I have found that both use many different techniques to put their message across to cover the same story.  Therefore I conclude that the articles and reports analysed are completely different in language, style and detail.  The different papers, tabloid and broadsheet, meet the requirements of the different social classes that make up the population and differ quite clearly in their style.