It is Tuesday 7 April, and today's post concerns the British paper The Guardian - traditionally a different paper to The Times and one of interest as it serves as a mirror to our own Irish Times in that it remains staunchly a broadsheet paper in its treatment of news values.
The front page remains a haven of detail in The Guardian - planty of information is given about the story of the day, which happens to be the earthquake which recently hit Italy. This story is printed with a traditional headline and above the fold in the style that broadsheets have been publishing for many years and is very reminiscent of The Irish Times' style of presentation, in that the masthead includes generally two stories of interest and the front page usually has no more than two or three separate stories. Interestingly, The Guardian does not make use of a newslist at the side of the page.
The BP1 story for The Guardian is what could possibly be termed a 'public interest' story - the smoothie manufacturer 'Innocent' is determined as losing its innocence as it has sold a stake in its company to global 'evil' soft drink manufacturer Coca-Cola.
The colour piece includes details on the company and its method of operations and is a very light story which in theory could be balance for the picture of horrific scenes in the Italian earthquake above the fold. Even so, this is a little unusual for a broadsheet.
It seems British papers are much further apart in their own ways than their Irish counterparts are to each other - perhaps because we have less papers we lack in diversity?
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