On Wednesday the 1st of March 2000, both `The Sun' newspaper and the BBC news reported on the same story. The story was about a boy aged six, who shot dead a girl of the same age, in Buell elementary school in Michigan, USA. Throughout this essay I am going to explain how both `The Sun and the BBC news reported the same story, but in a very different and unique way. I am going to focus on the differences and similarities between each report, and how they each portray different views across to the audience.

In 1964 the Sun published their first article, but at this time the newspaper was known as the Daily Herald. Then in 1964 Rupert Murdoch brought the business and made it into the tabloid newspaper that it is today. The newspaper was important to Murdoch because, his father Sir Keith Murdoch had once been the...