Analyse the media language to create meaning in the online Observer home page:
Once way in which the text communicates to its readers is by using stories and opinions that would then form the readers to have conversations with other people who have read these front pages too. Visuals will accompany the story which attracts the readers eye and makes them won't to read the story. They first added stories so that strangers could create conversations with each other when sitting next to each other on public transport.
Surveillance is a huge part of newspapers, viewers like zooming into other people's life. So if the story and its photo is about someones personal life, people will be more likely to read it. Also, if a famous persons name is on the front cover and has a story about them, if you are interested in that person you are very likely to go on and read what has happened to them recently. The Observer, for example, will put something for everyone on the home page, from personal stories, to food, to famous people, to sports and even countries, there will be something everyone wants to read. Short and simple titles for each story is what the Observer has done which is what will bring the readers into the newspaper.
I think that you perhaps did not really understand that you needed to analyse actual examples from the online extract given (with the blue and pink on it). For instance, can you pick out examples of hyperb0lic, emotive or sympathetic language? Use of metaphor? Concerns with gender politics or social diversity?
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