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A VISION OF HELL! China Quake in British newspapers
LCC SGDMAGD 2008Piero Zagami
Elective BDesign and Politics
The earthquake in China seen by British newspapers
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Section 112 newspapers / 4 days
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On the 12th of May 2008, a devastating earthquake killed thousands of people in China. The day after, almost every British newspaper was reporting this news. The following analysis is focused on the first four days after the tragedy (from the 13th to the 16th of May), studying how newspapers reported the event, and highlighting differencies of approach by the press to the same story.
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“Less than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality.”
Bertold Brecht
76 76Experiment 01
Section 1/01
News charts
98 9814th May13th May
98 9816th May15th May
1110 1110News story coverage chart
1110 1110Experiment 02
Section 1/02
Front page
1312 1312Front page: 13th May
1312 1312
1514 1514Front page: 14th May
1514 1514
1716 1716Front page: 15th May
1716 1716
1918 1918Front page: 16th May
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2120 2120Front page: overview
2120 2120Experiment 03
Section 1/03
Photography
2322 2322Photography: 13th May
2322 2322Photography: 14th May
2524 2524Photography: 15th May
2524 2524Photography: 16th May
2726 2726Photography: overview
2726 2726Experiment 04
Section 1/04
News overlay
2928 2928News overlay: 13th May
2928 2928News overlay: 14th May
3130 3130News overlay: 15th May
3130 3130News overlay: 16th May
Section 212 newspapers / 1 days
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To precisely analyze the different styles of communication of British newspapers, I focused my studies on a specific day, the 14th of May. The compared analysis begins with observing how tabloids, newspapers, and the free press have different visual and typographic languages to tell the same story, and this is evident throughout the entirety of the newspaper.
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3534 3534Experiment 05
Section 2/01
14th May: news visual dialogue
Newspapers
This category is addressed to those newspapers that preserve the traditional broad sheet structure such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Times and The Daily Telegraph. Here the classic news hierarchy is preserved: world news come for first, followed by the local news and the celebrities gossips. The visual language is usually sober and neutral.
The Daily TelegraphThe GuardianThe IndependentThe TimesDaily ExpressDaily MailEvening StandardLondon LiteMetroThe London PaperDaily MirrorThe Sun
3534 3534Experiment 05
Tabloid newspapers
Free newspapers
Tabloids
A tabloid is a newspaper that emphasizes sensational crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuendos about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and other so-called “junk food news”. The visual language is usually confused and sensationalistic with pictures invading most of the page and big words.
The majority of free newspapers is published as tabloids. Content of this kind of newspapers reflects the audience: a clear focus on quick news (local, national and international), lifestyle, technology, media, celebrities, and movies information. Examples of this kind of newspaper are: London Lite, Metro, The London Pape.
This kind of newspapers represents a hybrid between the traditional newspaper and the tabloid, for format and content. These newspapers usually give priority to the main news, but do not let forget to stress the attention on the celebrities gossips and the local news. The Daily Mail, Evening Standard and Daily Express are examples of this category.
3736 3736Visual language: The Daily Telegraph
3736 3736Visual language: The Guardian
3938 3938Visual language: The Independent
3938 3938Visual language: The Times
4140 4140Visual language: Daily Express
4140 4140Visual language: Daily Mail
4342 4342Visual language: Evening Standard
4342 4342Visual language: London Lite
4544 4544Visual language: Metro
4544 4544Visual language: The London Paper
4746 4746Visual language: Daily Mirror
4746 4746Visual language: The Sun
4948 494814th May: news visual dialogue: “Earthquake in China” news coverage (alphabetical order)
4948 4948Experiment 06
Section 2/02
Typography
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The Times Daily Express Daily MailThe Daily Telegraph
The Guardian The independent
Evening Standard
London Lite Metro The London Paper
Daily Mirror The Sun
Typography: news titles
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The Times Daily Express Daily MailThe Daily Telegraph
The Guardian The independent
Evening Standard
London Lite Metro The London Paper
Daily Mirror The Sun
5352 5352Typography
5352 5352Experiment 07
Section 2/03
Page numbering
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The Times Daily Express Daily MailThe Daily Telegraph
The Guardian The independent
Evening Standard
London Lite Metro The London Paper
Daily Mirror The Sun
Page Numbering
5554 5554
The Times Daily Express Daily MailThe Daily Telegraph
The Guardian The independent
Evening Standard
London Lite Metro The London Paper
Daily Mirror The Sun
Section 31 newspaper / 17 days
News Decay
Experiment 085756 5756
During the first week after the earthquake in China, the story was found in each one of the twelve newspapers considered. In my analysis I found that The Guardian was the newspaper to give more importance and information to the event than any other. Therefore, I decided to collect this newspaper day by day to observe when The Guardian would stop mentioning the story. After the 31st of May, the newspaper didn’t mention any further news about the situation in China. The following pages show an analysis of the visual language of The Guardian over 19 days (Sundays excluded) until the story was no longer mentioned in the newspaper.
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5958 595813th May
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6160 616014th May
6160 6160
6362 636215th May
6362 6362
6564 656416th May
6564 6564
6766 676617th May
6766 6766
6968 696819th May
6968 6968
7170 717020th May
7170 7170
7372 737221st May
7372 7372
7574 757422nd May
7574 7574
7776 777623rd May
7776 7776
7978 797824th May
7978 7978
8180 818026th May
8180 8180
8382 838227th May
8382 8382
8584 858428th May
8584 8584
8786 878629th May
8786 8786
8988 898830th May
8988 8988
9190 919031st May
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9392 9392News decay: “The Earthquake in China” disappearing process (over 19 days: 13.5 - 31.5)
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Newspapers (May):Daily Express 13-14-15-16
Daily Mail 13-14-15-16
Daily Mirror 13-14-15-16
Evening Standard 13-14-15-16
London Lite 13-14-15-16
Metro 13-14-15-16
The Daily Telegraph 13-14-15-16
The Guardian 13-14-15-16-17-19-20-21-22-23-24-26-27-28-29-30-31
The Independent 13-14-15-16
The London Paper 13-14-15-16
The Times 13-14-15-16
The Sun 13-14-15-16
Quote at page 6:Jan van Toorn (2008), Critical Practice, Rick Poynor and 010 Publishers, Amsterdam
9594 9594Bibliography
LCC SGDMAGD 2008Piero Zagami Elective BDesign and Politics The earthquakein China seen byBritish newspapers