Paper Analysis

Newspaper Analysis

For the paper that I created I decided to use the John Terry news story as I believe that it is what the ideal for the paper would want to read about and would attract them to buy the paper, another reason for me choosing this article is that typically the readers of red top newspapers are patriotic and Terry is an extremely patriotic football player and ex England captain which will appeal to the ideal reader.

His interests which include going to the pub and betting on horse and football racing made me include the advert for a sign up offer for a betting company. This will attract the ideal reader to purchase the newspaper because they will be interested in the betting aspect of it along with the horse racing.

I chose the headline for the John Terry article, as it is two syllables long, which is ideal for the newspaper as red top papers reading age is very low which makes them easy to read.

I chose to include the story about beer prices being increased by George Osborne as this would affect him as he goes to the pub regularly. Another article I included was the news that Bruce Forsyth will host the TV show Strictly Come Dancing again, this will interest him because the ideal reader doesn’t have Sky therefore he will be restricted to watching the freeview channels which will therefore interest him if it is something that he watches. For the headline of this article I used a low amount of syllables to make it easier for the ideal reader to read.