MEDIA

Types of Newspapers being compared Broadsheets and Tabloids
Newspapers being compared:  The Guardian and The Sun 
Item of News: Cardinal Keith O'Brien's comments concerning gay marriages
  
Similarities:

• Both newspapers state the author of the article and the times they were last updated.
• Both newspapers also placed some information concerning the author in the case of there being a need to make contact or just know more about the author
• Both newspapers post the same picture in their stories

Differences:

Area of Focus	The Sun	The Guardian
Picture	Here there are more pictures and they are much bigger.	Here there is only one picture and it is much smaller.
	Pictures are not very well described.	Pictures are properly described.
Text	Much more shorter  because of the big pictures and not very detailed concerning the story.	Much more longer because of the smaller picture and contains more details.
Style	Use of non-academic language such as “Storm as cardinal raps gay marriage” in the headlines.	Use of proper academic language such as “cardinal O’Brien’s gay marriage comments decried as scaremongering” in the headlines.
	Biased and tends to paint the story badly.	Cautious language is used.
Organisation	Not very well organised.	Well organised story  with paragraphing.

References:

Jowitt, J. (2012) 'Cardinal Keith O'Brien's gay marriage comments decried as scaremongering', The Guardian, March 2012 [Online] Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/04/cardinal-kieth-obrien-gay-marriage (Accessed: 5 March 2012)

Wilson, G. (2012) 'Storm as Cardinal raps gay marriage', The Sun, March 2012 [Online] Available at: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4171188/Storm-as-cardinal-raps-gay-marriage.html (Accessed: 5 March 2012)