News Article Analysis- Iran/Iraq Earthquake

Language	Content	Style	Values and attitudes	Photographs	Headlines
What examples of language stand out.  Calculate the average number of words per sentence.	What is included or missed out of the story?  Can you explain this?	Is the article chatty or formal?  Serious or funny? How long are the sentences?	Is there any bias?	Which shots have been chosen and why?  How have they been edited?	What kind of headline is it?  What techniques are used?
The average number of words per sentence is 19.5. The verb ‘kills’ in the headline is a strong and emotive word used to attract an audience due to shock value and interest. The use of statistic ‘200’ people killed at least provides facts which readers like because they know it is believable and that the news they are reading is true. Another part of the article which proves its validity is the use of quotes from the people that have been    experiencing the earthquake; “there are still people under the rubble” this make the reader feel involved and immersed into the article.	The parts the article have focussed on are the facts of the story, as the article is about earthquake, people will want to know the details of the event. The article provides us with the magnitude, time, deaths etc. of the earthquake. The article includes information from the US Geological Survey, the use of elite persons makes this article an important one. The news is classed as ‘hard news’ because it is a natural event which affects peoples lives.	I feel as if this article is formal as the information and facts are very informative, letting people know what has happened in simple detail. There is no sign of colloquial language because it wouldn’t be appropriate to be funny when the article is about a serious matter. The sentences are one enough to provide as much information as possible but are also short enough to be able to understand in a hurry.	I don’t think there is any bias in this article because it is just an informative piece of text. I feel the intention for this task is just to inform the people  about the earthquake.	The picture used in this article is very invasive as the camera is at the level of the person injured on the stretcher. As we are at the same level of the injured victim, it makes the reader process what is happening, we can empathise with the hundreds of hurt and injured people who were affected by this earthquake. The picture doesn’t look like it has been edited, it shows the nitty gritty truth of the tectonic event. Another reason this picture might not have been edited is because the picture could have only just been taken and the journalists did not have a time and need to edit it. We also see peoples expressions and faces during the panic of the event.	This is a news headline as it is announcing a recent earthquake. The headline is very simple as it says ‘Iran-Iraq earthquake kills hundreds’, the online news website are not trying to make it sounds more exciting or interesting, they are just stating the matter as it is.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/89653/iran-iraq-earthquake-kills-hundreds