Active news is normally presented as an article in the newspaper, detailing the most important information at the start of the article, then continuing on to that of less

The article did not contain an image, and consequently had no caption. I believe this is the case, because the article I found is only a follow up, previous stories had already been published in the newspaper, prior to this one. On the television, the story was presented whilst a picture of Samantha O’Reily was shown in the background. Underneath her face, the caption “Paper Trial” was spelled out clearly, telling the viewer the plans to hand out brochures and leaflets to the surrounding neighborhoods of Samantha’s family home. In both the article, and the television presentation, the language used was as though it was appealing to the reader, or viewer, for help to find the murderer of Samantha. Not only that, but also to warn other families of the occurrence, so that it does not come about again.

I found that in the article it neglected chronicle order, which is the order in which things occur in the story, and placed the most appropriate, and interesting facts first. I believe this is because it does not want the reader to read the first sentence, find that the story is not interesting, and turn the page. This way the story hits the reader quickly, but harshly, giving them the straight out facts. Television news presentations, tells the story how it happened, rather then putting the most appropriate facts first. I believe this is to make the viewer watch on, to see what happens in the story. I believe both print, and passive news do this to get be

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