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Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles

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Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles

These two articles are about asylum seekers. Both articles agree that there are too many asylum seekers, but are presented in a very different way to each other. Article one is a shorter more aggressive tract, not intended to make the reader think about the article but just to instantly agree with it. Article two however stands back and looks at the problem, why it has arisen and suggests ways that there can be resolutions. Both papers also criticise the government for being too lenient, and for not taking any action. Both identify David Blunkett, naming the government's minister responsible for this area of policy, an important factual ingredient. The two …show more content…

These people are the opposite to the writer of article one who also has not seen both sides of the argument.

The writer of article one relies on strong and emotive language to get her point across and to get people to see her point of view. She also tries to win a 'sympathy vote' by starting to blame the asylum seekers for our second rate education system, long waiting lists for operations, people dying on hospital trolleys in corridors and the inadequacies of our social services system. In a way the author is right but for the wrong reason, 'that there are so many of them'. She also tries to make the reader feel a bit hard done to by the government by commenting on how in Leeds the asylum seekers have got their own mobile health clinic when normal British people 'can't get to see a G.P for love nor money', in actual fact this is because the G.P's won't take them on because they don't speak English and that they have too many patients as it is. The real reason for the lack of quality in our UNDERFUNDED public services is that to keep these asylum seekers housed and give them benefits costs more than to put them up in a top notch hotel for that night, and at two hundred and fifty hundred pounds a night for one hundred thousand legal immigrants a year that is over twenty five million pounds a day. If we

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