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On Thursday 22nd April 2004, Ron Atkinson, manager and footballing coach, was overheard making a racist remark concerning play
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Comparison of News Reports: Broadsheet and Tabloid On Thursday 22nd April 2004, Ron Atkinson, manager and footballing legend, was overheard making a racist remark concerning player Marcel Desailly- the black Chelsea defender during the Chelsea-Monaco Champion's League semi-final. The story received colossal press coverage from all of the newspapers, mainly because Atkinson is famous for coaching so many black players. I have studies two newspapers' accounts of the same story. One paper is a tabloid (The Sun) and the other is a broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph). The reason why I have chosen to examine a tabloid report and also a broadsheet is to discover the similarities between them and also the contrasts in the reporting style, biases and also the way Ron Atkinson is presented throughout. The main headline of The Sun is 'If Big Ron's racist, I'm a white man'. This headline uses slang and personalisation as it refers to Atkinson as...
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