Manchester Evening News (City Edition)
Article 1
Headline: Thirty-year fight 'to end Muslim extremism'
Section: News
Written by: Gavin Cordon
Page: 28
Outline: The article reports on comments made by Security Minister, Lord West of Spithead. It mentions how Lord West envisions that it will take 30 years to end the "radicalisation of extremists". According to the quotes used in the article at no point does Lord West actually use the term "Muslim extremism" as it states in the headline. The headline creates a very negative view of the situation and leaves the reader thinking that there is probably no hope of ending extremism. The word 'Fight' is also a clever use of 'Unspeak' by the journalist. This is where certain words come loaded with alternative meanings e.g. the word fight invokes a feeling of difficulty, struggle, a lot of effort, no guarantee of victory etc. However, the work being done by Lord West and the positive results he is seeing is 'hidden' in the body of the text, reading the full article actually makes it clear that whilst it will take a long time the initial results are in fact positive. Some may say that picking at the healdine is being really petty but not all readers read the full story and if some of them just focused on the headline and didn't delve into the story then this will most certainly leave a negative view of Muslims and Islam. A more responsible healdline would have been "Thirty year fight to end extremism", this is because it doesn't allocate ownership of extremism to any one group of people.
Article 1
Headline: Thirty-year fight 'to end Muslim extremism'
Section: News
Written by: Gavin Cordon
Page: 28
Outline: The article reports on comments made by Security Minister, Lord West of Spithead. It mentions how Lord West envisions that it will take 30 years to end the "radicalisation of extremists". According to the quotes used in the article at no point does Lord West actually use the term "Muslim extremism" as it states in the headline. The headline creates a very negative view of the situation and leaves the reader thinking that there is probably no hope of ending extremism. The word 'Fight' is also a clever use of 'Unspeak' by the journalist. This is where certain words come loaded with alternative meanings e.g. the word fight invokes a feeling of difficulty, struggle, a lot of effort, no guarantee of victory etc. However, the work being done by Lord West and the positive results he is seeing is 'hidden' in the body of the text, reading the full article actually makes it clear that whilst it will take a long time the initial results are in fact positive. Some may say that picking at the healdine is being really petty but not all readers read the full story and if some of them just focused on the headline and didn't delve into the story then this will most certainly leave a negative view of Muslims and Islam. A more responsible healdline would have been "Thirty year fight to end extremism", this is because it doesn't allocate ownership of extremism to any one group of people.
Article Verdict: Negative
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