Key
language terms:
Colloquial
– Colloquial language is more conversational which is
frequently used in ordinary conversations
Expletive-
This language is often considered as offensive
First
person speak- This language is when a person is referring to
themselves from their point of view
Second
person speak- This is the second-person point of view to address
the reader
The headline starts off with the team the player plays
for which suggests that the article is predominantly aimed at Liverpool fans
even though it may still interest football fans in general. As the headline
doesn’t reveal too much it entices the audience to click the article to find
out this ‘secret’ about footballer Roberto Firmino. As the article is online,
modern technology allows The Mirror to upload videos relating to the subject
which in this case is a short entertaining clip of the footballer’s best goal
celebrations. This montage of him celebrating and some of the text in the
article suggests that Roberto Firmino should be praised for scoring so many
goals, especially as it includes his impressive statistics for this football
season and comparisons to Liverpool’s all-time greatest footballers.
Sensationalist language is language used to excite the
reader, however this article is mainly filled with statistics and quotes.
Sensationalist language is usually used by news writers for controversial
subjects, which this story isn’t.
Links to other Mirror articles are included throughout
the article to entice people to read further on about Liverpool and Firmino
related stories. For example, they mention one of his recent goals against
Huddersfield and have made it into a hyperlink to a match review of that game.
This is beneficial to readers who may have missed or needed reminding of
Firmino’s goal against Huddersfield as they can just click the link to read all
about that game.
This articles paragraphing is very basic and each
paragraph is kept to a maximum of 3 lines each so the reader is only getting
short bursts on information at a time. This is because it is a very statistical
based article as it is talking about Firmino’s goal records. It is important
for the article to be set out this way so the statistics can be read by the
audience more efficiently which provides them with comfortable and familiar
reading. Within the initial paragraphs,
simple sentences are frequently used as they quickly and easily inform the
reader of the key information.
Press Regulations - Rules the press agency's have to
follow.
For an example i researched a recent news scandal which
is a phone hacking scandal
Newspapers involved - News of the world
Who was involved - Editors, reporters, journalist,
Piers Morgan
What started the scandal? - regarding the Milly Dowler
murder as someone hacked a phone to find information nobody knew
When did phone hacking start? - 1990's
Who's targeted - Large variety - Celebrities,
politicians and the news company itself for hacking into phones
Regulation
Sometimes newspapers are bias and report the opinions
of journalists and editors instead of the actual facts. This can cause some
public disagreement which is why newspapers are subject to regulation.The IPSO
are a company who now investigate complaints about breaches of the Editor's
Code of Practice.
Citizen journalism is where citizens collect news and
distribute it online whether that be onto social media or websites specifically
for citizen journalists. Many news consumers may prefer citizen journalists as
they often give a point of view of a story, including their photos if they took
any at the time. citizen journalists arent typically regulated as they arent
publishing as an official news source
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