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MEDIA COURSEWORK. Compare and contrast articles 3 and 4 focusing on content, structure and use of language. The articles that I am going to analyse are on the issue of a group of hippies wanting to celebrate the Summer Solstice Festival in June 1986 in Hampshire and how determined police officers were trying to stop them from doing so. Whilst both articles are based on the same issue, their use of language presents two very different viewpoints. Article 3 has a very negative bias against the hippies, describing them as 'harpies' and giving biased examples of their attitude towards the police and other people's property. In the article they are portrayed as 'harpies' that spit at policemen. The reader is given the view that the hippies are not civilised and behave like wild animals. Article 4 shows great support towards the hippies and sympathises with them. This is done by using...

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4 out of 5 stars Reviewed by: HippieJoe, 2008-08-14

"This was an inciteful review of two contrasting articles. The writer in particular shows how emotive language is used for political ends. The hippies had I believe a valid counterculture, but are so often presented as the dregs of society, this came over well. It would have got 5 stars if the two articles had been included also, but this is no reflection on the writer's comments, it was an oversight."

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