Daily Mirror Textual Analysis

To what extent does The Daily Mirror demonise the man in this story?

In pairs, carry out a semiotic analysis of this article.


Headline language

Image of toddler

Man’s body language

Image of weapon

Article language

Man’s ethnicity

The Times Textual Analysis

Now compare The Daily Mirror article with the same news story, as told by The Times.

How do they differ?


Headline language

Image of police

Article language

Article positioning