Med 6 Exemplar Paragraph

Md13C2 need to hand in their Med 6 comparisons for assessment on Wednesday 27-02-08. Make sure you find out what to do if you weren't in the lesson! To help, here's an exemplar paragraph...

Both ‘The Guardian’ – a broadsheet – and ‘The Daily Express’ – a tabloid – focus on stories centring on Muslim people but they do so in very different ways. Whereas Benazir Bhutto is represented as a tragic victim, reinforcing the shock the liberal middle-class audience is likely to feel at this attack on democracy; the ‘fanatical Islamic terrorist’ in Richard Desmond’s paper represents the Muslim as the Other – an old colonialist stereotype whereby those from the non-West were seen as uncivilized and barbaric. This reflects the right-wing conservative values of the paper and its readership (currently 1.7 million but steadily declining) whereas ‘The Guardian’ takes a much more inclusive, internationalist perspective.