News reports are written to capture an audience just as much as any film or advertisement. Techniques of language and written codes are ways in which the report can achieve this. In the "Snowtown Verdicts" channel 2 and channel 9 present the same facts however it doesn't give a lot of detail. Both channels are constructing a news item to leave the viewer in no doubt of who is responsible for this murderous act and how justice has prevailed
Channel 2 has constructed a much more shocking and horrific news item rather than channel 9 which glosses over some of the shocking language. Channel 2…
