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Compare the newspaper articles on smacking and discuss how effectively each presents its arguments.  

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MEDIA TASK: Compare the newspaper articles on smacking and discuss how effectively each presents its arguments. I have read a broadsheet article and a tabloid article on smacking, the broadsheet is the Daily Telegraph and the tabloid the Daily Mirror I will compare them both and write how effectively they present the issue of smacking. People likely to be reading a broadsheet will be the more educated people in the community who have a greater understanding and people likely to be reading the tabloid will be the slightly less educated people. The Daily Telegraph uses a heading that has the word "urged", which is a suggestion not an instruction therefore is the issue very serious? It also says "smack children", which gives no suggestion of excessive violence. This article uses statistics to try and show the seriousness of the problem it says "9 out of 10 parents thought mild corporal punishment was...

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