Analyse The Mail And The Guardian Websites

Analyse The Mail and The Guardian Websites

The Mail website is much more glamour based within it’s content and the layout on the page. The first major picture, which was seen, was of a celebrity (Amanda Holden), an attractive woman and the headline to this picture was the main headline of the top part of the page. The audience of the Mail tend to be those who want the news but in a basic format, so although the Mail’s readership is to those who are slightly more sophisticated than The Sun, it does spread the news headlines among less important news about celebrities and therefore may not be sophisticated enough for the average Times or Guardian reader. The menu on The Mail website contains many more interactive things than The Guardian website, with things like Sudoku and Fantasy Football, which could be counted as games. Also the news is very basic for The Mail, the heading is ‘News’ and then below are the headlines but within the first page, underneath are all the headlines in a smaller font and bunched together, making it uncomfortable to read and really quite forgettable as it would be easier to move down the page and find some of the selected headlines.
A news item such as the issues in Burma are very important at the moment, but within The Mail site, it is quite near the bottom and in quite a small font but within The Guardian site, it is near the top within the bunch of main headlines. As seen in the past with The Mail, if any English people had been killed within the cyclone then the item would be nearer to the top but because it does not directly affect the UK, The Mail find that it affects it’s readers less and therefore does not need to be included in their daily bite size news chunks. It seems that the representation of women within The Mail is much more widespread than The Guardian- there are articles which either directly affect females or are aimed at females, including interviews about ‘Sex and The City: The Movie’ which is based at females and...