Contrasting Two Media Texts - Media Gcse

The purpose of this essay is to explore how the issue I have chosen is being represented in two different print media texts and to highlight the contrast and similarities between the two articles relaying information on the same issue.

In this essay I will be looking at the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010, the incident focuses on Israel attacking a Gaza aid fleet, the two particular texts I will be focusing is a article written by al Jazeera in May 2010 and a article written by the Jerusalem post on 1st January 2010 the contents of these two articles are interesting because they represent two different point of views .

The Al Jazeera primary audience focuses on the Middle East more likely Palestine supporters and predominantly a Muslim audience as opposed to the Jerusalem post who target Israeli supporters who refer to the situation as conflict rather than an attack, the two articles are written in two different perspectives so have a different active audience although despite the articles being aimed at two different groups of people the topic used in both articles suggests the majority audience are more likely to have linked backgrounds to the issues between Palestine and Israel.

The article written by the Jerusalem post focusing on the Mavi Marmara event use hyperbole in the heading describing the event as a “vicious conflict aboard the Mavi Marmara” purposely exaggerating the language to manipulate reader’s opinions on the event, the dominant ideology reflected in the Jerusalem post suggests that the Mavi Marmara initiated violence first and that Israeli commandos were defending themselves.

The Jerusalem post constructed the text to suggest that a battle is what occurred aboard the Mavi Marmara in 2010,the Jerusalem post describes the incident as a  “ pre-dawn battle at sea” and stated  “commandos were brutally attacked before opening fire.”

The anchorage accompanying the image on the article in the Jerusalem post advises that the Mavi Marmara aid fleet were...